• Proposed designation: Manager
• Role type: Individual contributor
• Reporting to: Ass. Director
• Geo to be supported: Germany/UK/US
Roles & Responsibilities
IT Due Diligence
•Analyzing target data to build up a view on the technology of the business including cost, products and systems, and IT contracts
•Finding risks in Target’s IT environment, remediations and associated costs
•Condensing the data and explaining findings to other team members, highlighting the impact of technology on the business strategy, operations, and ultimately, deal valuation
•Developing an understanding of IT benchmark and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical IT function
•Assisting and leading client communications, calls and meetings
•Contributing content for sections of IT reports/deliverables
Integration and Separation
•Advising clients and managing all client communications on all technology aspects of integration, separation (carve outs) and optimization initiatives (e.g. synergy analysis) including the development of target operating models, understanding the current IT landscape, defining transitional service agreements, developing detailed plans, and supporting the implementation of such plans.
•Leading the technology workstream in integrations and separations within a larger team of Integration & Separation colleagues to fulfil their workstream objectives
•Facilitating and leading key client workshops and meetings
•Identifying, reviewing, or calculating client synergies for IT within a larger team
Wider responsibilities
•Business development, ensuring high chargeability of the KGS team
•Project Management, including work allocations, guiding and reviewing quality of work of junior project team members
•People management, managing the performance of junior staff members through coaching and mentoring
•Interacting with senior client stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders (KPMG Partners and Directors)
•Supporting the growth of the team through development of new propositions and initiatives
•Ensuring engagement management protocols are followed and kept up to date including quality and risk management
•When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in a number of different aspects such as preparation of proposal materials, development of propositions
Educational qualifications
•MBA / Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college/university preferably with major in Technology
Work experience
•9+ years of experience in M&A IT Integration and Separation / IT strategy / IT due diligence / solution architecture / IT project management
•Technology certifications such as ITIL, AWS, Azure, GCP, TOGAF, COBIT, CISSP, COMPTIA etc. would be a plus
•Knowledge about enterprise business applications (e.g. ERP, CRM)
•Experience in assisting with technology assessment/diligence