Corporate Development Specialist

Job Title – Corporate Development Manager

Management Level:

07 – Manager

Location:

Bangalore

Must have skills:

Project Management

Good to have skills:

Advanced to expert level proficiency in Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Job Summary:

We are part of Corporate Development (CD) - Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A), responsible for identifying and executing inorganic opportunities to advance the Firm’s strategic objectives. Our team works with Senior Management across all Operating Groups, Growth Platforms, and geographies. We offer Project Management Office (PMO) support for PMI leads in Growth Markets (GM), Europe (EU), and United States (US) regions. As trusted advisors, we drive seamless integration and synergies, enabling Accenture to grow and provide 360° value to our clients. We manage acquisition integrations, support Go to Market Joint Ventures, mobilize front and back-office teams, establish integration governance, and facilitate handover to operations.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Mentor, coach, and partner with the Accenture Sponsoring Business leadership team on the Post Merger Integration Program; this includes educating leadership on Accenture Integration model types, methodology, principles, expectations, timeline, and definitions of success.
• Develop integration strategy, approach, and guiding principles.
• Co-develop and document with Sponsors the "Target Operating Model" and Organizational Model
• Facilitate and oversee integration governance program.
• Implement proven tools and best practices across all cross functional workstreams.
• Oversee the Integration program and communicate status to senior leadership.
• Develop key integration work products, including kick-off integration materials, team charters and workplans and establish a program management office.
• Facilitate collaboration sessions to address key integration concerns and seek solutions with cross functional parties –both from acquired entity and Accenture.
• Proactive management of issues, risks, action items and decisions (RAID)
• Document progress and provide status reports to the business sponsors, Steering Committees, and senior leadership.
• Develop PMI Intellectual Property, including briefing decks, checklists, templates, and position papers

Professional & Technical Skills:

• End-to-end project lead for a more simple, straightforward integrations (i.e., under US**$30**m acquisition, within the Market Unit, integration “type A” based on cultural fit and ability to integrate with less complexities, those with less than 6 months off-system period, etc.)
• Mentor 2-3 junior team members.
• Lead internal PMI team meetings on complex deals or Steer Co. for simpler deals
• Lead initiatives with Market Unit impacts. Engage with Go to Market to help drive strategic objectives of acquisition where able.
• Drive lookback and other executive reviews, advising teams and ensuring quality outputs

Additional Information:

• Ability to quickly establish strong relationships and trust with Senior Leadership

• Good to Very Good Project Management instances from previous employment positions

• Strong work ethics and Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.

• Valid Passport – Role has Travel requirements. Preferable to have relevant work permits.

• This position is based at our Bengaluru office.

About Our Company | Accenture

Experience:

5-10 years of robust Program management abilities, strong organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

Educational Qualification:

Bachelor’s degree

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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