Canada - Senior Associate - Transaction Advisory - IT Due Diligence

at  Alvarez and Marsal

GLOBAL TRANSACTION ADVISORY GROUP

A&M’s Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has an exciting opportunity to join a growing team in Toronto, Canada. TAG is a subsidiary of A&M, an established leader in providing global leadership and advisory services to a variety of diverse industries. A&M TAG is seeking a Senior Associate (s) to bring their energy, passion, and expertise to help our clients get the answers they need to get the deal done. This is an IT M&A role with due diligence being the primary focus.
We bring a structured and disciplined approach to create and capture value. We provide private 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 technology, operational and synergy reviews, through ‘Day-1’ planning, to post-deal implementations. Our services include due diligence (IT and operational), merger integration / carve-out planning and execution, transition service agreement negotiation & governance, ERP implementations, IT operations & cost reduction, and enterprise architecture.

A&M Senior Associates will work on delivering large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for private equity clients and their portfolio companies, including but not limited to:

• Pre-acquisition IT diligence assignments focused on the following key areas: Business systems (e.g., ERP, WMS, and CRM); IT Infrastructure; Enterprise Architecture; Software Development Lifecycle; Budgetary analysis; and Organizational / Personnel assessment.
• Interim IT management
• Merger-integration and carve-out execution.
• Day-1 and 100-day planning and execution - driving performance improvement in key areas such as ERP; back office; supply chain; BI / reporting integration; customer and channel management; track progress against Day-1 and Day-100 objectives, adjusting strategies or personnel as required.
• Implement the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-7 years of professional consulting or relevant industry experience, with a minimum of five years specializing in systems implementations, merger integration, business transformation, and change management.
• Experience working for or with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, or related transaction / merger integration experience.
• Deep functional expertise in one of more of the following areas:
• Private Equity Advisory
• IT merger integration and carve-out.
• Business / IT transformation program / project management (e.g., ERP)
• Collaboration and leading change to improve key business functions, such as supply chain and/or finance/accounting.
• IT operations
• Solution architecture
• Enterprise architecture and infrastructure
• IT assessment and strategy development
• IT performance improvement and cost reduction
• Demonstrated track record working with business leaders (Directors and above) as well as private equity deal staff.
• Proven writing skills with a desire to produce polished client-facing documents.
• Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
• Specific experience designing and supervising the execution of internally focused and externally focused change/communications strategy.
• Previous strategy and change management experience. Advisory experience from a top-tier strategy firm, leading specialist, niche advisory firm, or Big-4 consultancy
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Flexibility to travel at least 75% of time.

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