M&A Operations -Financial Services IT - Senior Manager

The job will require some degree of travel, though our clients are more and more accustomed to working offsite. As a team we are committed to working collaboratively at least 3 days per week alongside some flexibility, which is built on two-way trust.

What your days will look like:



As a Senior Manager, your responsibilities will include:

Leading high-profile M&A transactions technology engagements, including IT separations, IT integrations and technology due diligence projects - to meet and exceed the expectations of our clients and our own quality criteria

Managing and delivering large and small projects by developing the project team, assessing engagement risks throughout, driving conclusions, and reviewing / challenging the output produced by the team

Developing strategies to solve complex technical challenges

Proactively assisting in the management of a portfolio of clients

Training, coaching, and supervising staff

Being responsible for the financial management of clients

Leading business development activities to help identify and research opportunities on new/existing clients

Contributing to the development of your own and the team's technical skills

The skills & experience we're looking for:

Either

Experience of working in an IT role in financial services, or an IT role in the financial services industry, ideally Banking, Payments, Insurance or Asset and Wealth Management

OR

Experienced in IT separation, IT integration and/or technology due diligence

In addition to:

Awareness of common IT application systems in one or more financial services sub-sectors, and awareness of common IT infrastructure

Ability to understand the impact of IT on commercial, financial and operational aspects of a business, ideally in the context of a transaction

Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and communicate with senior business leaders on technology matters

Excellent quantitative and written skills, able to build analysis or an evidence base to support a position, often in situations with imperfect or incomplete information

Comfortable under pressure and managing through ambiguity to deliver tasks in an environment where there are many unknowns

Comfort around financial analysis and understanding of the drivers of financial information