Transaction Advisory Consultant
Job Role: Transaction Advisory Consultant
Location: London
Travel: Yes
Career Level: 9
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital and AI capabilities across all services.
We are looking for a Transaction Advisory Consultant with experience supporting pre and post deal engagements in a consulting environment.
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As a team:
You’ll join Accenture’s Transaction Advisory team, which is a network of M&A and Private Equity professionals across Europe, Asia and North America. The Team supports corporate and Private Equity Clients in delivering projects that span across the deal lifecycle. Our practitioners provide dedicated support from M&A strategy, target screening and due diligence to transaction management, merger & synergy planning, as well as carve-outs and divestitures.
The Transaction advisory team is a lean but fast-paced team that has supported 7 out of the 10 largest global transactions and counts more than 9,000 clients across 120 countries. It’s stimulating and intellectually rigorous work which will see you working on headline-making deals, but you’ll be well prepared for each challenge.
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training, cutting edge technology and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.
In this role you will:
- Support successful strategy engagements addressing our clients’ business challenges, delivering lasting and distinctive outcomes and value in disciplines such as:
- Corporate and Business Strategy
- Private Equity Value creation (e.g. portfolio company assessments)
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Portfolio strategy
- Target screening
- Pre-deal assessment/due diligence
- Post-deal merger integration planning
- Joint ventures or divestiture/carve out strategy and planning
- Work within multinational teams on client-facing projects or program workstreams, you could be developing business cases, performing cost optimization, assessing strategic and investment opportunities, or defining digital solutions
- Demonstrate a strong willingness to learn by proactively supporting development of insights in new industries, deal contexts, and analytical approaches
- Quickly assimilate feedback and insights from senior leaders, clients, and multidisciplinary teams to continuously enhance impact and outcomes
- Learn and apply appropriate methods and procedures for each assignment and use your judgement to deliver solutions in alignment with the agreed strategic direction
- Support business development activities including opportunity identification/qualification and proposal development/presentation
- Support practice/community building efforts such as training activities, developing offerings, assets, capabilities and relevant thought leadership
We are looking for:
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience at a top tier or boutique consulting firm, Big 4 or through an ‘in-house’ consulting / business development role (e.g. Group Strategy, Group Corporate Development)
- Experience across multiple areas of the M&A lifecycle (e.g., commercial/ IT/ operational due diligence, merger integration, carve-outs)
- Ability to lead individual workstreams on M&A engagements for clients/ stakeholders
- Analytical mindset and ability to frame hypothesis and adopting recognized Strategy frameworks and techniques in the problems you are trying to solve
- Experience of research, quantitative analysis and leveraging GenAI tools to streamline pre and post deal M&A workflow
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience in supporting delivery of reports and presentations to senior corporate and Private Equity clients
Set yourself apart:
- An appreciation of how technology, digital and AI can contribute to solving clients’ complex business problems
- Comfort with the quantitative skills required to develop financial/operational models and supervise data analysis
- Demonstrate an understanding of financial statements
- A drive for personal development and curiosity to learn new concepts and skills
- Ability to understand complex issues, quickly absorb information, and work creatively in a problem-solving environment
- Ability to work in a team environment, establish trust-based relationships and contribute valuable insights through collaboration and communication, showing initiative to drive progress with a results driven attitude
- Proven presentation skills, personal impact and charisma to drive meetings, presentations and workshops. Confidence to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days of vacation per year, access to app based fitness classes, mental well-being tools and discounts on range of gyms, private medical insurance and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Moreover, you have access to our Employee Share Purchase Plan that enables you to buy Accenture shares at a 15 percent discount.
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to deliver the first-class services we are known for.
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