Mergers & Acquisition Strategy Manager

Accenture is seeking an M&A strategist to help clients unlock value through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and alliances. The successful candidate will partner with senior executives to define deal strategy, assess market opportunities, and design integration or separation plans that deliver measurable business results.

What You Will Do

The M&A strategist will lead workstreams across M&A engagements, apply rigorous analysis to identify, quantify, and validate value creation opportunities, and contribute to Accenture's M&A thought leadership agenda through insights, articles, and market perspectives.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a strong quantitative analysis skills, including financial analysis, competitive intelligence, and market analysis, and experience leading workstreams and contributing to client relationship development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of four years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, corporate development, investment banking, or private equity, with a focus on M&A
• Experience with synergy modeling, transaction cost analysis, and value capture planning
• Exposure to AI/GenAI tools and their application in strategic or M&A-related contexts
• Technology / IT M&A functional experience (e.g., IT due diligence, integration/separation planning, IT TSA design; application portfolio rationalization; ERP carve-outs, cybersecurity risk assessment; IT cost & synergy modeling)
• Strong quantitative analysis skills, including financial analysis, competitive intelligence, and market analysis
• Proven M&A lifecycle experience: strategy, diligence, integration/separation, carve-outs, synergy planning
• Experience leading workstreams and contributing to client relationship development
• Strong communication, presentation, and executive presence skills
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with multiple priorities
• Experience collaborating across deal ecosystems: bankers, legal advisors, target leadership, operational executives
• Sector expertise in relevant industries (e.g., technology, energy, consumer, industrials)

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Long-term disability coverage
• 401(k) plan
• Bonus opportunities
• Paid holidays
• Paid time off