Senior Consultant, Mergers & Acquisitions (Merger & Carveout Services)
West MonroeChicago, Illinois, United States · Posted 26 days agoDescription
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West Monroe is seeking a Senior Consultant to join our growing Merger & Carveout Services (MCS) team. We help private equity and corporate clients navigate complex mergers, acquisitions, carve-outs, divestitures, and integrations by combining deep transaction experience with technology, operational, and financial expertise.
As a Senior Consultant, you will work across the transaction lifecycle—from diligence and separation planning through Day 1 readiness and post-close execution—to help clients reduce execution risk, accelerate value realization, and build stronger standalone businesses. You'll partner with cross-functional client stakeholders to solve complex challenges, develop data-driven recommendations, and deliver measurable business outcomes. You'll also contribute to the continued growth of our M&A practice through business development, knowledge sharing, and mentoring.
What You Will Do
- Support buy-side and sell-side merger, integration, and carve-out engagements for private equity and corporate clients across multiple industries.
- Develop standalone operating cost models, one-time separation cost estimates, synergy analyses, and technology financial models to support investment decisions and transaction execution.
- Analyze business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and technology operating models to assess risks, identify value creation opportunities, and develop integration or separation recommendations.
- Support the planning, design, negotiation, and execution of Transition Services Agreements (TSAs), standalone operating models, and Day 1 readiness activities.
- Lead technology workstreams across post-close merger and carve-out programs while managing project plans, risks, dependencies, budgets, and executive reporting.
- Identify and document business, process, technology, contractual, and organizational entanglements to support successful separations and integrations.
- Facilitate client workshops, present recommendations to executive stakeholders, and translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights.
- Leverage West Monroe's proprietary methodologies, accelerators, and Intellio™ assets to improve planning, governance, collaboration, and transaction execution.
- Contribute to proposals, statements of work, client pursuits, and thought leadership initiatives that strengthen the growth of the M&A practice.
- Mentor consultants and analysts by providing coaching, knowledge sharing, and quality review of project deliverables.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize complex information, and support data-driven recommendations for clients, exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies (e.g., generative AI, automation tools, data models) to enhance insights, improve delivery efficiency, and elevate the quality of client outcomes.
What You Will Bring
- 4+ years of client-facing management consulting, technology consulting, transaction advisory, or IT M&A experience supporting private equity or corporate clients.
- Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, integrations, carve-outs, divestitures, or technology transformation initiatives.
- Experience developing financial models, standalone cost analyses, synergy assessments, TSA analyses, or technology business cases.
- Understanding of enterprise business applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, data, and technology operating models within an M&A environment.
- Experience managing project workstreams, balancing competing priorities, and delivering high-quality client outcomes in fast-paced environments.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, financial modeling, and quality assurance skills with experience using tools such as Smartsheet, Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, or similar platforms.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree required; relevant certifications such as PMP, LeanIX, Smartsheet, or other project management or technology certifications are a plus.
- Experience integrating AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT) into day-to-day workflows to enhance productivity and insight generation, coupled with strong critical thinking to assess accuracy, mitigate bias, and ensure high-quality outputs.
- Ability to travel 25 to 50%.
- A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
- Ability to work permanently in the United States without sponsorship.
Based on pay transparency guidelines, the salary range for this role can vary based on your proximity to one of our West Monroe offices (see table below). Information on our competitive total rewards package, including our bonus structure and benefits is here. Individual salaries are determined by evaluating a variety of factors including geography, experience, skills, education, and internal equity.
Employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, purchase shares from our employee stock ownership program and be eligible to receive annual bonuses. Employees will also receive unlimited flexible time off and ten paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Eligibility for ten weeks of paid parental leave will also be available upon hire date.
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We’re a global business and technology consulting firm passionate about creating measurable value for our clients, delivering real-world solutions.
The combination of business and technology is not new, but how we bring them together is unique. We’re fluent in both. We know that technology alone is not the answer, but how we apply it is. We rely on data to constantly adapt and solve new challenges. Actions that work today with outcomes that generate value for years to come.
At West Monroe, we zero in on the heart of the opportunity, getting to results faster and preparing people for what’s next.
You’ll feel the difference in how we work. We show up personally. We’re right there in the room with you, co-creating through the challenges. With West Monroe, collaboration isn’t a lofty promise, but a daily action. We work together with you to turn vision into clear action with lasting impact.
West Monroe is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We believe in treating each employee and applicant for employment fairly and with dignity. We base our employment decisions on merit, experience, and potential, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, religion, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state or local law. To learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion at West Monroe, visit www.westmonroe.com/inclusion. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in our recruiting process, please inquire by sending an email to recruiting@westmonroe.com.
Please review our current policy regarding use of generative artificial intelligence during the application process.
If you are based in California, we encourage you to read West Monroe’s Notice at Collection for California residents, provided pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and linked here.
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