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About the Role

We are looking to hire an Associate Director to join our M&A Consulting Services team in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth or Brisbane. This role offers the opportunity to deliver trusted advice and practical solutions for clients, supporting them from start to finish in their Mergers & Acquisitions activities.

Responsibilities

• Drive client thinking to uncover strategic and operational capability of acquisitions or divestments.
• Bring a strategic point of view, structured problem solving, consulting skills, and disciplined planning capabilities.
• Lead teams to assess the operational, strategic, and synergy value of client deals pre-deal.
• Drive integration or separation planning post-deal to help clients realize full potential.
• Perform financial analysis and due diligence for proposed transactions.
• Develop strategic growth options and acquisition strategies for clients.
• Prepare acquisition/carve-out business cases for stakeholder review.
• Conduct pre-deal advisory work including strategy design, market assessment, and strategic decision making.
• Develop integration/separation strategies to extract maximum value, including operating model design and change management.
• Execute transactions, including negotiating Transitional Service Agreements and planning for Day-1 readiness.
• Manage large-scale transactions end-to-end.
• Contribute to practice and business development activities, such as developing thought leadership and sales materials.
• Coach junior staff on the M&A lifecycle and project management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or post-graduate qualification (e.g. CA / CFA / MBA).
• 6+ years of advisory/consulting experience, ideally from a Big 4, strategy, or boutique consulting firm, or an internal strategy function of a large corporate.
• Natural aptitude for problem-solving and structured thinking.
• Proficiency with a strategy toolkit.
• Experience with the broader deal-oriented process and environment.
• Excellent financial and analytical skills.
• Articulate communication and confident presentation skills.
• Pragmatic commercial acumen, with the ability to identify risks and develop solutions.
• Demonstrated ability in structuring complex problems and communicating them to a team.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment and willingness to deal with ambiguity and change.
• Project management experience in planning, overseeing, and leading large-scale projects.

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
• Consulting
• Financial analysis
• Due diligence
• Strategic planning
• Problem solving
• Project management
• Communication
• Presentation
• Commercial acumen
• Change management

Location

• Sydney
• Melbourne
• Perth
• Brisbane

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Associate Director
• 6+ years advisory/consulting experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree
• Post graduate qualification (e.g. CA / CFA / MBA)

Benefits

• Retail discounts
• Wellbeing leave
• Paid volunteering days
• Twelve flexible working options
• Market-leading parental leave
• Return to work support package

About the Company

• We focus our energy on interesting and impactful work.
• We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society.
• We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers.
• We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
• We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles.
• We cultivate inclusion, ensuring our work environment is a safe space for everyone to belong.
• We prioritise flexibility and choice, encouraging balance between connecting in person and meeting personal needs.

Equal Opportunity

• We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion.
• We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles.
• What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.