Senior Associate - Consumer & Retail

Role: Senior Associate M&A Operations (Consumer, Retail and Leisure)

Location: Bangalore

What does this role entail?

The Consumer, Retail and Leisure team within M&A Operations is fast-growing and market leading team, working on a wide range of client engagements. The M&A deals we work on range in size from £50m to over £5bn and our clients include the most well-known brands and business in the world. We often work on these high profile deals with top tier private equity and corporate firms across the deals cycle, from pre-deal diligence, synergy development and separation planning through Day 1 and into implementation support. We routinely collaborate with PwC’s wider Strategy& and Consumer Markets practice (commercial and financial due diligence practice) as part of our go to market model.

We comprise both career-consultants and subject matter experts from industry, and actively seek diversity of experience in our new team members. Our team includes individuals with experience gained in industry in retail (i.e. Grocery Stores, Fashion Retailers), consumer (i.e. Food & Beverages, Consumer Health, Personal Care, Household Products) and leisure (i.e. Travel, Hospitality, Gaming, Health & Fitness, Visitor Attractions).

Core responsibilities as a Senior Associate would entail (but not limited to)

• Pre-deal value creation

  advisory looking for value in a deal on behalf of our clients, and exploring whether full value potential has been both identified and accurately quantified
• Providing

  operational due diligence

  on both the buy and sell side of a transaction.

• Identifying or reviewing synergies

  available as the result of a transaction and assessing plans for their realisation.
• Supporting

  divestment of subsidiary businesses

  and planning to ensure the carved-out entity can continue to operate on day 1.
• Assisting the purchaser with

  100 day planning

  ,

  taking control

  of the new entity and delivering quick wins.
• Supporting our clients on

  the integration of their acquisition

  , in order to deliver the value identified pre-deal, reduce risk and successfully merge the two organisations.

Must-have skills

Experience

• Excellent

  stakeholder management

  skills, with the ability to engage and communicate withseniorbusiness leaders.
• Excellent

  quantitative and written skills

  , able to build analyses or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information.
• A healthy

  curiosity

  , coupled with a disciplined approach to understanding and

  solving problems

  .
• Able to work from first-principles and stay focused on the ‘why’ when performing analyses or reviewing documentation.

• Comfortable under pressure and managing through ambiguity

  to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns.

• Adaptable

  , and up for the challenge of mastering new industries and developing experience in a wide variety of product types.
• Capability or willingness to develop

  skill in data analytics e.g. Alteryx, PowerBI, Tableau.

• Operationalmanagementor business transformation experience in a corporate environment across consumer goods

  (e.g. FMCG),

  retail sector

  (e.g. grocery stores, fashion retailers, etc), or

  leisure sector

  (e.g. hotels, restaurant chains, cinemas, etc),

Or

• Experience providing professional services

  (either in a Deals or Consulting background)

  to Retail, Consumer or Leisure team industries

Eligibility Criteria

• MBA in Strategy/ Marketing/ Finance from a premium B-School
• Past Experience: 3 - 6 years of prior relevant work experience
• Experience in M&A or management consulting domain