Manager - Transaction Advisory - Operational Due - Toronto, Canada - Alvarez & Marsal

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About A&M_

Companies, investors, and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action, and results.

Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services.

When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 7,000 people across four continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges.

Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M's restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results.

We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators, and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what's really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk, and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

• Global Transaction Advisory Group_

A&M's Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has an exciting opportunity to join a growing team in Toronto, Canada.

TAG is a subsidiary of A&M, an established leader in providing global leadership and advisory services to a variety of diverse industries.

A&M TAG is seeking an Operational Due Diligence Manager to bring their energy, passion, and expertise to help our clients get the answers they need to the get the deal done.

We are seeking someone who has a successful track record with a blend of operational and commercial skills, an entrepreneurial approach, and networks across the M&A community.

We provide private equity and corporate clients buy side and sell side due diligence.

TAG ODD professionals actively engage in assessing and quantifying potential synergies, dis-synergies, one-time costs and savings that could be generated by the combination of target and buyer; determining and quantifying potential carve-out implications and conducting comprehensive discussions with management and their advisors.

• What will you be doing?_

As a Manager, you will have the opportunity to work with our highly motivated and effective team of professionals on a variety of interesting projects across different industries including but not limited to manufacturing, distribution, consumer, retail, restaurants, business, and industrial services as well as healthcare, software & technology, energy, and financial services.

You will provide our clients with an integrated due diligence approach that goes beyond traditional quality of earning analyses and focus on key value drivers for sponsors and lenders.

Our integrated due diligence approach combines our deep operational, functional and industry expertise with Big Four quality financial accounting and tax services to drive value throughout the investment lifecycle.

Responsibilities will include:

• Operational due diligence, 100day planning, postmerger integration and performance improvement.
• Advising and implementing performance improvement programs for major corporations across a wide range of industry sectors.
• Evaluating both cost reduction and revenue enhancement opportunities.
• Leading the postacquisition work to ensure that the ODD was realized in full and in the shortest possible time.
• Developing detailed and robust methodology to ensure that the in the first 100 days total clarity and ownership is created throughout the organization, a clear path to delivering the growth and cost reduction developed and the identified quick wins delivered.
• Encompassing in the 100day planning process the merger of two organizations for which a specific methodology has been developed.
• Support delivery of projects with private equity owned businesses to assess opportunities to improve their financial /operating performance and implement findings and recommendations.
• Work with private equity owned clients through the full spectrum of complex issues that arise in operations, including manufacturing, supply chain management, logistics and purchasing.
• Contribute strongly to business development activity including developing successful pitches and selling, on from the initial "diagnostic" project phase into implementation work.
• Initial rapid diagnostic into a company's immediate and future major operational issues, product profitability, cost base, manufacturing processes and options for performance improvement.
• Supporting PE firms to ensure their portfolio companies have credible plans and the ability to execute and deliver the financial results required.
• Developing & implementing a new operating plan to improve the business operational performance.
• Who will you be working with?_

We are not a typical consulting firm. We are a group of entrepreneurial accounting professionals who embody the A&M Core Values - integr