Manager - Technology in M&A
Do you want to build a rewarding career in one of the fastest growing M&A advisories in Europe?
BearingPoint is looking for a Manager to join BearingPoint Capital, its global Technology M&A team in London, to work on Technology Due Diligence and integration/separation engagements.
As part of BearingPoint Capital, you will get the chance to fast-track your career within a dynamic environment, through a wide variety of challenging M&A projects for top-tier clients, including leading Private Equity firms, family offices, corporates, and strategic investors.
Our service offerings include M&A Strategy & Execution, and M&A Commercial & Technology Due Diligence, aimed at companies where technology is central to their strategy. You will become a part of a small but highly skilled and driven team that supports your having a great work-life balance, working on both local and international engagements, applying your business, management and technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle. Your expertise will help drive business-building initiatives for our clients supporting our growth strategy and gives you exposure to high-impact M&A projects.
About BearingPoint Capital
BearingPoint Capital is an independent business unit of the global management consultancy BearingPoint. Capital is a smaller, global team that delivers M&A advisory services on both the sell-side and buy-side in transactions. Our service offerings include M&A strategy consulting, commercial and technology due diligence. In addition to M&A advisory, Capital is responsible for managing BearingPoint's own corporate portfolio, as well as our investments in ventures.
BearingPoint Capital draws on BearingPoint’s global consultancy network – with more than 6,000 employees helping leading companies in more than 75 countries achieve measurable and lasting success.
In this role, you will be involved in:
- Leading Technology Due Diligence engagements
- Supporting clients with Tech financials, including assessing IT Opex/Capex, synergy assessment, IT Carve-out costing, benchmarking, and cost estimations
- Driving sales in the London/UK Private Equity and Corporate markets
- Supporting leadership in building proposals and sales pitches
- Practice development and team mentoring
- Work closely with our Europe-wide teams across a wide variety of industries
- Assist in developing and executing BearingPoint’s firmwide M&A strategy
We are looking for top performing individuals with the following characteristics and background:
You should be able to demonstrate the following:
- Strong experience in an M&A advisory role
- Hands-on experience of leading technology due diligence engagements
- Demonstrable ease with financials e.g. IT Opex/Capex, synergy assessment, IT Carve-out costing, benchmarking, and cost estimations
- Experience of working with Private Equity clients and with CxO level client stakeholders
- Ability to drive sales and business growth
- A strong business acumen and resourcefulness; ability to get things done
- A team player who can work in a collaborative culture and mentor juniors
- Comfortable with ambiguity and a highly pressured environment which characterise transactions
- Experience of delivering high-quality reports and presentations, written and spoken
- Experience in IT Separation and Integration management will be an added advantage but not mandatory
- An MBA degree will also be an added advantage
- Candidates must have the right to work in the UK
For the right candidate, we can offer:
- Exciting career prospects with possibilities to learn and grow as fast as you can handle
- Exposure to the development and execution of our firmwide M&A strategy, including venture investments
- Collaboration with top-tier clients, including leading Private Equity firms, family offices, corporates and strategic investors
- Highly competent and down to earth colleagues
- An informal and “easy to work with” culture
- Highly competitive compensation and benefits with industry leading bonus structure
