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Transaction Advisory Strategy Manager

Transaction Advisory Strategy Manager

AccentureChicago, IL, US
6 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

M&A Strategist

Accenture Strategy combines deep industry knowledge, cutting-edge analytics, and bold insights to help clients navigate disruption and shape the future. We enable executives to maintain operational excellence while pivoting swiftly to new growth opportunities. Known for our speed and execution, we deliver competitive agility through transformative business and technology strategies.

Within Accenture Strategy, our Transaction Advisory (TA) group focuses on helping clients achieve the full potential of dealsboth corporate and private equityfrom idea inception to execution and value capture.

Your Role

We're seeking an M&A strategist to help clients unlock value through mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and alliances. You will partner with senior executives to define deal strategy, assess market opportunities, and design integration or separation plans that deliver measurable business results. You will lead M&A workstreams and ensure high-quality delivery across the deal lifecyclefrom target screening to due diligence, integration planning, and post-deal value realization.

Key Responsibilities

Client M&A Engagements

  • Lead workstreams across M&A engagements : deal framing, target screening, due diligence, integration planning, joint venture development, carve-out, and divestiture planning.
  • Apply rigorous analysis to identify, quantify, and validate value creation opportunities, translating findings into actionable recommendations.

Team Leadership & Talent Development

  • Lead and inspire teams of strategy consultants, ensuring delivery excellence and fostering a high-performance culture.
  • Mentor and coach junior team members to grow their M&A expertise and consulting capabilities.
  • Foster collaboration across cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams.
  • Thought Leadership & Business Development

  • Contribute to Accenture's M&A thought leadership agenda through insights, articles, and market perspectives.
  • Support go-to-market initiatives and pipeline pursuits, including opportunity identification, proposal development, and client presentations.
  • GenAI-Powered M&A Innovation

  • Leverage GenAI tools to accelerate M&A value realization, from market scans to integration planning.
  • Support the design and adoption of AI-augmented frameworks, playbooks, and performance measurement tools to strengthen and future-proof M&A execution.
  • Travel

  • As needed, could be up to 80%
  • Here's What Your Need :

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • Minimum of four years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, corporate development, investment banking, or private equity, with a focus on M&A.
  • Bonus points if you have : MBA or advanced degree in strategy, finance, or related field preferred.
  • 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.
  • Experience with synergy modeling, transaction cost analysis, and value capture planning.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York or Washington as set forth below.

    Role Location Annual Salary Range

    California $87,400 to $253,000

    Colorado $87,400 to $253,000

    District of Columbia $87,400 to $253,000

    Illinois $87,400 to $253,000

    Minnesota $87,400 to $253,000

    Maryland $87,400 to $253,000

    New York / New Jersey $87,400 to $253,000

    Washington $87,400 to $253,000

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