M&A Operations - Technology - Senior Manager

About this role

About The Role
PwC’s M&A Ops team assists both Corporate and Private Equity (PE) clients in a wide range of business critical operational and transformational challenges, driven by Merger and Acquisition (M&A) activity. We advise our clients on deals with values ranging from £50 million to over £10 billion and our clients include some of the most well-known brands and businesses in the world.


S& MA& Operations Focuses On Providing Support For Potential / Actual M&A Transactions And Assists Clients In All Operational Aspects Of The Transaction, Pre And Post Deal, Including

• Pre-deal value creation advisory (i.e. helping clients to prepare their business, or parts of their business for sale)
• Buy and sell side operational due diligence (i.e. reviewing and reporting on the technology risks and value opportunities for the business)
• Synergy development and review (i.e. helping to develop or providing an external independent review on the level of synergies available from putting two or more businesses together)
• Carve out and divestment support (i.e. helping to develop the standalone operating model, one-off costs and standalone operating costs of a divestment)
• Taking control and 100 day planning (i.e. helping our clients to safely take control of the business, manage risks and deliver ‘quick wins’ during the first 100 days of ownership)
• Mergers & Acquisitions Integration (i.e. helping our clients protect and grow the value of an acquisition, develop a robust and realistic integration plan and then executing on it)
• Post-acquisition performance improvement (i.e. reviewing where the value might lie in the business and how realistic and sustainable cost savings can be achieved)

What Your Days Will Look Like

• The ability to undertake IT strategy formulation and analysis and IT operating model design review/formulation.
• Experience of key business applications design and/or implementation; to include one or more of ERP, CRM, MI, Middleware,...