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A career within Delivering Deal Value will provide you with the opportunity to help clients achieve maximum value on their deal transactions by solving transformational and other complex challenges. You will focus on all operational aspects of a transaction, pre and post completion. This includes conducting pre-deal and confirmatory due diligence, executing large-scale enterprise-wide integrations, and supporting complex divestitures and separations across a wide range of functional and cross-functional areas. PricewaterhouseCoopers Acceleration Center (Bangalore) Private Limited, a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of the US firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a management consulting operating unit that enhances PwC's ability to address the strategy, growth, and innovation agendas of its clients. The team's expertise lies in designing and executing business and innovation strategies as well as customer value strategies, complementing PwC's strengths in finance, technology, organization, risk, and deals. The team also brings additive strengths in core operational areas such as growth strategy, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, operational strategy, manufacturing and supply chain, product development and innovation, and service and support. As a Senior Manager within the Transformation (Management Consulting) team, you will collaborate with a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience to help clients solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with the leadership team to formulate growth strategies, participating in sales activities, leading projects from solution design to implementation, engaging with clients" leadership teams, providing technical and functional inputs across multiple projects, leading client conversations and presentations, developing financial models for IT, recommending enterprise architecture and solutions, coaching team members, and developing internal relationships. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of IT Landscape, experience in IT due diligence, IT and business process integration and separation planning, operational and performance improvement, strategic growth, or other relevant operational experience. Strong team management, storyboarding, communication, and consulting skills are necessary. An understanding of mergers, acquisitions, and divestiture transactions, as well as experience in planning for integration/separation of various front office and back office functions, is required. Qualifications include a Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, with Engineering, Operations, and Finance graduates also qualifying. A Master's Degree (MBA from tier I colleges preferred) is beneficial. The Senior Manager position requires a minimum of 10 years of experience in Consulting, preferably in M&A IT Integration, IT Divestitures, IT Due Diligence, Transition Service Agreements, or IT and Operational Cost Modeling. Travel may be required based on project needs. The position falls under the Line of Service: Advisory, within the industry of Management Consulting, with locations in Bengaluru, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, India.,

Role & responsibilities Pre-Deal (IT Due Diligence): o IT function assessment: Support clients in developing key IT strategies for M&A engagements with a focus on IT due diligence across the IT function including IT applications and data, IT infrastructure, IT security and IT organisation (including IT vendors). This involves evaluating IT landscapes to identify synergies and dis-synergies, understanding the business's IT transformation vision, and identifying technical inefficiencies. Propose recommendations for the target IT landscape, identify IT-related opportunities and risks, and formulate strategies to mitigate them. IT spend Analysis: Conduct IT spend analysis, including vendor contract reviews to uncover hidden transactional costs, and provide recommendations for cost efficiencies. Perform IT Benchmarking for key performance indicators using insights from previous projects and research databases. o Subject Matter Expertise: Provide basic subject matter expertise across one or more of the following critical components of IT landscape: ERP assessment and separation/ integration planning (e.g., SAP etc.), Enterprise Architecture ,Infrastructure (Servers, Data Center, Storage, Network, End User Computing) Cloud Security and Access Management (Cybersecurity Services, Cyber maturity assessment framework leveraging NIS2 framework) IT Financials in M&A and Transformation Scenarios (IT Opex / Capex Cost Modeling) Post-Deal (Integration/Separation): o Integration and Separation Planning: Provide support for IT integration and separation activities post-deal. This includes planning and readiness for program, integration, and transformation management offices, as well as Day 1/100 readiness planning. o Vendor Management: Assist in vendor evaluation and selection, bid formulation, and ongoing vendor management to ensure smooth integration or separation processes. o Digital and Technology Transformation: Advise on large-scale transformation engagements by identifying, designing, and implementing creative business and technology solutions. Plan and implement IT integration, separation, and transformation projects, providing advisory and PMO support for enterprise systems like ERP, CRM, and Big Data. o Technology Implementation: Guide projects involving enterprise application integration and transformation across various components of the IT landscape, ensuring comprehensive solutions are delivered. Preferred candidate profile Critical problem solving and troubleshooting skills with the ability to exercise mature judgment. • Ability to use tools outside of traditional methods such as MS excel, PowerPoint, and enable smart working. Framing issues and breaking it down into hypotheses to be solved • Strong oral and written communication skills. Core consulting skills including (MS Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Project), story boarding etc. • Improving internal processes and promoting knowledge sharing in the team. • Flexibility to travel if required You will have at least 2 years experience in some aspect of technology/technology operations. In addition to Excel and PowerPoint skills, you are comfortable around high-level financial analysis of IT cost information and have a broad understanding of key aspects of an IT environment (e.g. IT applications and IT infrastructure). You will be skilled in developing and nurturing internal/external networks, understand and be able to understand business considerations, have proficient oral and written communication skills. It is desirable (but not required) if you have experience in IT due diligence, IT strategy and operations, integration, separation, divestiture, program management or management consulting (internal or external). You will work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues. No two days are the same, you will assist in the management of a portfolio of clients and be a part of business development. Passionate about being at the forefront of change, youre ready to help our deals team deliver practical advice that speaks straight to the heart of client business issues and deliver innovative results