Senior Consultant - HR M&A Transactions

Your Key Responsibilities

• Support clients to address peoplerelated matters arising from enterprisewide or functional reorganisations, restructurings and workforce optimisation, including postdeal activities.
• Assist the project in addressing HR Transactions/People related matters through all stages of acquisition, divestiture and merger
• Structure and manage projects of work which meet and exceed client expectations
• Be confident and effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments; ensure clear and timely communication to project leads
• Review and perform report writing, project planning, data analysis, and development of presentation material
• Analyse data and present high quality, risk-managed reports/conclusions including client and executive presentations in various formats - this will also include delivery and presentation of such reports to clients
• Work with key project leader to manage and maintain client relationship
• Ensure that all client work is delivered consistently, complying with EY's Q&RM guidelines
• Working collaboratively with other EY M&A service lines and wider firm teams, including EYP and Consulting, to deliver integrated, endtoend client solutions.

To qualify for the role you must have

The current teams have a different range of expertise across the HR M&A deal lifecycle. Therefore, we are looking for both specialists in a range of the areas highlighted above and below, together with those who have broader M&A experience.

• Strong HR M&A deal background, including HR Due Diligence, Sell and Separate, Buy and Integrate, and postdeal transformation activities.
• Proven Commercial HR experience from private, public sector or consulting
• Strong project management, presentation and stakeholder engagement/management skills
• Experience of specific HR disciplines; Employee /Industrial Relations, Compensation and Benefits, Change and Communication is ideal but not essential
• Qualitative and quantitative data analysis skills and data manipulation, data presentation, via a range of tools

Skills and Attributes for success

• Team player; ability to integrate with new teams quickly
• Collaborative, good at building relationships
• Ability to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions
• Able to manage stakeholder and client relationships in a fast paced and complex environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and experience of producing high calibre reports, papers, presentations
• Frequently and effectively leverage internal and external knowledge, experience and relationships to identify new opportunities
• Regularly brings ideas and insights to clients and programme teams that provide value, help address risk and assist the deal lifecycle
• Personal resilience and the ability to drive the project and teams agenda (both internally and within the client environment)

Ideally, youll also have

• A primary degree and any post graduate degrees and professional qualifications are desirable but not critical e.g. CIPD
• Experience of working on projects gained working within a professional services firm, global consultancy firm and/or large private and/or public sector organisations