Corporate Development Manager

About This Role

The Corporate Development team is responsible for identifying, executing, and integrating inorganic growth opportunities that advance the firm's strategic objectives. This manager role involves deal structuring, coordinating due diligence, negotiating, developing business cases, performing valuations, and leading post-merger integration. The successful candidate will lead the mobilization of front and back-office teams, establish governance frameworks, and design operating and integration models for acquired firms.

Responsibilities

• Participate in merger and acquisition (M&A) pipeline development
• Evaluate and summarize M&A prospect information discovered through marketing materials, public filings, meetings and calls, and various other sources
• Develop and oversee financial models to evaluate a target's financial projections and perform comprehensive financial valuations involving discounted cash flow, accretion dilution, and comparable company/transaction analysis
• Compile summary materials for internal management and Investment Committee approval
• Perform industry and financial analysis leading to investment recommendations
• Develop a negotiation strategy and lead relevant negotiation efforts
• Present to Senior Leadership
• Lead workshops across the deal lifecycle ensuring relevant objectives are achieved
• Actively lead and manage various internal and external stakeholders
• Program Management including:
• Due Diligence efforts amongst internal and external parties
• Meeting Coordination: development of agenda, minutes, and follow-up on actions
• Workplan management across all Workstreams (e.g., Go-to-Market, HR, Finance, Procurement, Legal, Tax, Workplace)
• Milestone tracking (delayed, at risk, on track)
• Document PMI progress, prepare Status Reports for PMI Status Meetings with Workstream leads and PMI Leadership Meetings with Sponsoring Accenture Organization and acquired Company
• Participate in the development of Intellectual Property, including AI Agents, lessons learned, best practices, briefing decks, and templates

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Business Operations or Finance at a large corporation
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading a team

Nice to have:

• Exposure to M&A activity
• Evidence of excellence in previous employment positions
• A good understanding of cross-functional corporate operations (e.g., Business Operations, Finance, HR)
• Excellent Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel Skills
• Strong program management skills
• Proficiency with AI tools and creation of AI Agents