Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy & Diligence Senior Consultant

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 S&D serves as strategic advisors to Deloitte's senior clients across corporations and investors as they contemplate inorganic strategies. The S&D practice is one of multiple practices within the M&A offering - collectively these practices bring together market leading capabilities across the deal lifecycle. Specifically, our S&D team helps our clients define a strategy aligned with their objectives and industry trends, formalizing the target pursuit process for acquisitions and providing portfolio review and deal structuring for divestitures. We start by bringing bold ideas that shape the C-suite agenda, then develop strategies and rigorously test investment theses to support high-stakes decisions. We help identify, weigh, and compare growth pathways and potential targets to accelerate their pursuit of success. Our services include providing M&A based growth options, portfolio rationalizations, buy/build/partner decisions, buy-side and sell-side readiness assessment, target identification and screening/scanning, pre-bid advisory and diligence, vendor assistance, value lever identification, tax and deal structuring and M&A innovative technologies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• 4+ years of M&A or M&A Service Delivery experience in the following areas:
  • Delivering advisory services to support mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, and partnerships including strategy, target scans, and commercial and operational diligence engagements for large and/ or mid-market portfolio companies and/or corporations
  • Working with financial statements and complex models allowing for a strong understanding of where the numbers and data are flowing
• Experience delivering 5+ Commercial Due Diligence and/or Operational Due Diligence Engagements
• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree and 4+ years consulting and/or industry experience; alternatively, an MBA with 2+ years relevant work experience is acceptable
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available

Preferred:

• Experience at a top strategy consulting firm or private equity / M&A Strategy focused boutique consulting firm
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to apply practical experience with communications, culture, and change management
• Ability to perform analysis and synthesize data into useful insights
• Experience with staff development and eagerness to mentor junior practitioners
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS PowerPoint)
• An advanced degree (MBA; PhD; JD; MD; Masters)

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Requisition code: 322608

Job ID 322608

Client-provided location(s): Atlanta, GA

Job ID: Deloitte-322608

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-29T18:56:27