Senior Associate, PEPI - Merger Integration & Carve-Outs

Overview

Alvarez & Marsal Private Equity Performance Improvement

Senior Associate, Merger Integration & Carve-Outs

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

A&M’s Private Equity Performance Improvement Services (PEPI) practice, with offices throughout the US, focuses on serving upper middle market and large cap private equity firms who have engaged A&M to help improve operating results at their portfolio companies. The companies we assess are upper middle market in the 50 million to 1 billion plus range.

Our professionals are aligned with a PEPI service line to promote the development of deep functional skills & experiences and to maximize our ability to tailor solutions to solve our clients' business issues.

Our PEPI services include:

• CDD/Strategy
• Interim Management
• Merger Integration & Carve-outs
• IT
• Rapid Results
• Supply Chain
• CFO Services

This is your opportunity to join A&M PEPI’s MI&C team - and develop an impressive range of operational skills. Benefiting from early client exposure and learning from some of the top practitioners in the field, you will be involved throughout the lifecycle of some of the largest, most complex and high-profile deals in US.

Our Merger Integration & Carve-outs (MI&C) service line brings a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value. We provide corporate and equity buyers with a broad continuum of knowledge and tools for mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, joint ventures and alliances.

The team works across the full spectrum of the deal lifecycle from pre-deal operational and synergy reviews to Day 1 planning and post deal implementation. In addition the team has expertise in developing and reviewing restructuring and turnaround plans and identifying operational risks. Our services include due diligence (commercial, operational), Integration Management Office, synergy, TSA, integration planning, Day 1 Readiness, and post-close execution.

MI&C is a growing business targeting high growth in the next 2-4 years. We offer excellent opportunities for career advancement and build leadership skills. The MI&C leadership team is focused on providing career development, training and exposure to international business assignments.

Build your skillset by providing valuable insight into how an entire business goes through the change process. And as we help our PE clients outperform the market, you will add real value too. All the while, you can broaden your experience across industry groups and enjoy unlimited opportunities to progress as part of a fast-growing team.

• Senior Associate-level responsibilities include: providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, assisting client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• Depending on the deal size, assist with work streams or a focus area within the Integration Management Office (IMO) – Synergies, TSA, Blueprinting, Day 1 Readiness, Executive Reporting, Integration Roadmap, Communications, Organizational Design
• Day 1 and Day 100 Planning, execution and driving performance improvement in key areas:
  • Strategic planning
  • Operational optimization /consolidation
  • Back office consolidation
  • Supply chain
  • IT / reporting integration
  • Customer and channel management
• Actively driving performance improvement assessments, across an enterprise, and participating in the implementation of recommendations.
• Tracking progress against Day 1 and Day 100 objectives and adjusting integration strategies or personnel as required

• 4-6+ years of professional consulting experience, specializing in merger integration, business transformation, and change management
• Experience in integration planning and divestitures a plus, but not required
• Deep functional expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • Finance & Accounting operations
  • HR / Organizational design
  • Role and Job Analysis
  • Leadership and Stakeholder Involvement
  • Communications planning and management
  • Knowledge Management and Transfer

• Success at both planning revenue growth and profitability growth initiatives and driving them, operationally
• Program management and leadership experience
• Specific experience designing and leading the execution of internally-focused and externally-focused…