Senior Consultant, BearingPoint Capital M&A

Do you want to fast-track and build a rewarding career in one of the fastest growing Technology M&A advisories in Europe?

BearingPoint Capital is looking for Senior Consultants to join its global Technology M&A team in London to work on Technology Due Diligence engagements. 

As part of BearingPoint Capital, you will get the chance to fast-track your career within a start-up-like environment, through a wide variety of challenging Technology M&A & Strategy projects for top-tier clients, including leading Private Equity firms, family offices, corporates, and strategic investors.

Our service offerings include M&A Strategy & Execution, and M&A Commercial & Technology Due Diligence, aimed at companies where technology is central to their strategy. You will become a part of a small but highly skilled and driven team that supports your having a great work-life balance, working on both local and international engagements, applying your business, management and technical skills across the M&A transaction lifecycle. Your expertise will help drive business-building initiatives for our clients supporting our growth strategy and gives you exposure to high-impact M&A projects.

About BearingPoint Capital

BearingPoint Capital is an independent business unit of the global management consultancy BearingPoint. Capital is a smaller, global team that delivers M&A advisory services on both the sell-side and buy-side in transactions. Our service offerings include M&A strategy consulting, commercial and technology due diligence. In addition to M&A advisory, Capital is responsible for managing BearingPoint's own corporate portfolio, as well as our investments in ventures.

BearingPoint Capital draws on BearingPoint’s global consultancy network – with more than 5,800 employees helping leading companies in more than 75 countries achieve measurable and lasting success. 

Your primary tasks will include:

·       Working on Technology Due Diligence engagements

·       Supporting clients with Tech financials, including assessing IT Opex/Capex, synergy assessment, IT Carve-out costing, benchmarking, and cost estimations

·       Supporting leadership in building proposals and sales pitches

·       Practice development and team mentoring

·       Work closely with our Europe-wide teams across a wide variety of industries 

·       Assist in executing BearingPoint’s firmwide M&A strategy   

We are looking for top performing individuals with the following characteristics and background:

·       4-5+ years of relevant work experience, including at least 3 years in industry, and/or a tech company with a large and/or complex technology landscape, in a senior business analyst role

• Hands-on experience of executing technology due diligence  

• Experience in IT Separation and Integration will be an added advantage but not mandatory

• Demonstrable ease with financials e.g. IT Opex/Capex, synergy assessment, IT Carve-out costing, benchmarking, and cost estimations

• A strong business acumen and resourcefulness; ability to get things done 

• A team player who can work in a collaborative culture and mentor juniors 

• Comfortable with ambiguity and a highly pressured environment which characterise transactions 

• Experience of delivering high-quality reports and presentations, written and spoken 

·       MBA, Master’s or bachelor’s degree with an outstanding academic record from leading universities

• Candidates must have the right to work in the UK 

For the right candidate, we can offer:

• Exciting career prospects with possibilities to learn and grow as fast as you can handle

• Competitive compensation and benefits with industry leading bonus structure

• Exposure to the development and execution of our firmwide M&A strategy, including venture investments

• Exposure to top-tier clients, including leading Private Equity firms, family offices, corporates and strategic investors

• Opportunity to work with international teams and occasional overseas travel

·       High performance culture with highly competent and down to earth colleagues and collaborative environment