IT Mergers & Acquisitions Manager
CohnReznick - White Plains, NY
posted 1 day ago
About the position
As CohnReznick grows, so do our career opportunities. As one of the nation's top Professional Services and Business Advisory firms, we foster teams in Advisory, Assurance, and Tax services that value innovation and collaboration in everything they do! We currently have an exciting career opportunity for an IT M&A Manager to join the team in our Merger Integration and Carve-out Services team in one of our CohnReznick offices or remotely. CohnReznick is a hybrid firm and most of our professionals are located within a commutable distance to one of our offices. This position is considered hybrid which means team members are expected to alternate time between both remote and office. At CohnReznick, we believe in creating the conditions in which everyone can do their best work, collaborate, learn, and build community. This results in our ability to create opportunities for our people, make a difference for our clients, and strengthen our internal and external communities.
Responsibilities
- Deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for private equity clients and their portfolio companies.
- Conduct pre-acquisition, buy-side software product and tech due diligence.
- Perform pre-transaction, sell-side software product and tech due diligence.
- Assess pre-acquisition synergy and cost take-out related to software product and tech for roll-up and tuck-in acquisitions.
- Drive post-acquisition software product and tech related value creation and performance improvement.
- Conduct pre-acquisition IT diligence assignments focused on business systems, IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, software development lifecycle, budgetary analysis, and organizational/personnel assessment.
- Provide interim IT management.
- Execute merger-integration and carve-out processes.
- Plan and execute Day-1 and 100-day objectives, adjusting strategies or personnel as required.
- Implement the quality of deliverables and manage day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 5-8 years of professional consulting or relevant industry experience, with a minimum of five years consulting to the tech industry or specializing in software/tech-enabled services product management or software development.
- Experience working for or with private equity sponsors, portfolio companies, or related transaction/merger integration experience.
- Deep functional expertise in software/product experience, either in a software organization or related advisory experience from a top-tier strategy firm, leading specialist, niche advisory firm, or Big-4 consultancy.
- Demonstrated track record working with business leaders (Directors and above) as well as private equity deal staff.
- Proven writing skills with a desire to produce polished client-facing documents.
- Excellent fact-gathering and analytical skills, including business process mapping and quantitative analysis.
- Specific experience designing and supervising the execution of change/communications strategy.
- Previous strategy and change management experience.
Benefits
- Generous PTO.
- Flexible work environment.
- Expanded parental leave.
- Extensive learning & development.
- Paid time off for employees to volunteer.
- Discretionary performance bonus.
