Deloitte US

Mergers & Acquisitions Finance Manager

Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.

As part of Strategy & Transactions, Deloitte’s M&A Offering has several functional areas to help our clients through transactions. M&A Finance and Operations is a piece of that puzzle that fosters specialists with functional finance and accounting depth to ensure our clients’ ultimate success when executing on M&A transactions. If you see challenges as a puzzle to solve, you’ll excel in this role- apply to this Manager role today!

Recruiting for this role ends on 1/3/2026.

Work You’ll Do

As a Deloitte Manager in M&A Finance, you will lead and deliver small engagements or components of larger, complex engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business solutions for our clients. Managers assist and guide deal execution by aligning integration or divestiture strategies, Day 1 plans, and future-state goals to maximize value for our clients. Our M&A finance managers execute across common finance focus areas such as integration strategy & planning, consolidation/financial reporting, finance operations/compliance, planning and forecasting, tax, and treasury. Manager level responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Provide the M&A expertise required to unlock deal value and execute issue-free integrations within the Finance function
• Partner with senior executives to define how they employ M&A – in alignment with their corporate strategy – to drive profitable growth and enable them to compete effectively in their industry
• Provide corporate and private equity buyers with a broad continuum of advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, investment and financing structures, disposition alternatives, and post-transaction activities
• Implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team(s) and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance
• Provide service excellence by identifying key client business issues
• Determine client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, as well as evaluating and validating analysis
• Develop recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement
• Drive a structured approach to delivering value for the combined organization
• Participate in business development activities

The Team

Our M&A team offers expert guidance to corporate and private equity clients in navigating complex growth and divestiture scenarios. Our services encompass M&A strategy and transaction diligence, integration and separation planning and execution, as well as transaction financing.

M&A can serve as a catalyst for organizations, and finance in particular, to embark on a digital transformation journey. Our M&A Finance team has deep experience in both M&A and finance transformation. The team works with our clients’ organizations through the various aspects of a transaction to help them choose the desired path for finance. This keeps potential risks and costs to achieve a successful Day One while setting a foundation for agility and strengthened capability. The M&A Finance team helps define the approach to integrate and/or divest client assets in a manner that realizes the value associated with the deal. They focus on integration & divestiture activities in the finance, treasury, and accounting functions. This includes developing updated financial plans; financial close & reporting integration; or the harmonization of controls and compliance. The M&A Finance team is uniquely positioned to support the CFO and the Finance Function throughout all aspects of an M&A transaction.

Qualifications

Required:

• 6+ years of experience in M&A or M&A service delivery experience in the following areas:
  • Transaction execution including advising on alignment of policies, processes, and systems for Day 1; creating and delivering detailed playbooks for day 1 planning; financial consolidation and reporting; and integration/separation planning
  • Synergy and value quantification
  • Carving out financials and the business plan
  • Delivering business and finance integration and/or separation strategy based on deal type
• 6+ years of experience in M&A or M&A service delivery experience within the finance function in the following areas:
  • Participating in setting engagement objectives and scope and developing work plans for components of engagements, coordinating activities between work streams, and identifying changes in scope
  • Managing cross-functional teams to deliver M&A engagements across all of phases of the M&A lifecycle including due-diligence, pre-close, and post-merger integration
  • Providing industry insight and analytical support using data mining, pattern matching, data visualization, and predictive modelling tools to produce analysis and algorithms that enables pre-deal and post-deal integration, divestiture, and major restructuring/cost transformation activities to achieve/exceed deal value, synergy targets, or strategic cost takeout objectives
• 5+ years of experience in an area of accounting and/or finance providing depth in that area
• Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 4+ years relevant work experience
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• An MBA, CPA, CFA, or advanced degree
• Recent experience working in a professional services consulting firm
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
• Experience in financial analysis, business process reengineering, and operational performance improvement analysis
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners

Information for applicants with a need for accommodation: https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/careers/articles/join-deloitte-assistance-for-disabled-applicants.html

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $144,200 to $265,600.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.