Location
London office, hybrid working model

Hours
Full time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
Fantastic opportunity to join us as a People Advisory – M&A Consultant in our market-leading Integrated and Global Solutions (IGS) line of business. This role is based out of our London office working hybrid. Our Global M&A Consulting Team is an enterprise-wide team of experienced practitioners providing human resource subject matter expertise, project leadership, and service delivery support throughout the life cycle of a client’s deal, including due diligence and integration phases. The team works across geographies on deals of all sizes, coordinating multi-country and cross-discipline projects, bringing in WTW local Retirement and Reward colleagues as needed to provide subject matter expertise for the client’s service delivery team. The M&A team is a collaborative group who meet regularly to share best practices with ample opportunity to learn on the job and create your own niche in the space. We are passionate about helping our clients through M&A deals, entrepreneurial in spirit, and enjoy new ideas and sharing interesting projects and client opportunities. We honour flexible working and appreciate work/life balance.

This role entails supporting relationships with, and providing strategic advice and consulting to, our M&A clients. M&A work can be varied and fast paced, involving project management and subject matter expertise across a variety of disciplines. We help clients with all people issues (including Talent, Reward and Benefits) during due diligence or integration phases of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, carve outs, joint ventures or other corporate transactions.

Core activities include supporting client engagements with Corporate HR and Finance, assessing their needs, developing and delivering scopes of work for M&A support and strategy. You will be a team member leading complex multi-country M&A projects such as HR due diligence, complex carve outs requiring support with stand-alone benefit programmes across multiple countries, design and delivery of M&A HR readiness training for client team members, development of M&A playbooks and other aspects of M&A readiness for clients. Other projects may include leading diverse client teams to deliver post-merger integration advice on people matters globally, including global grading, compensation and benefit design, provider selection and benefit delivery, communications and change management.

Due to the dynamic nature of the role, you will have a broad and collaborative mindset and be expected to support marketing activity, new business endeavours, participate in conferences, speaking engagements and other external intellectual capital development to help drive best practice and continual process improvement for our global M&A Practice. You will work closely with global Lead Relationship Managers (LRMs), key local Solution Advisors and colleagues to identify opportunities, raise WTW brand awareness and grow client revenue including expansion sales across service lines. You will also support the use of WTW technology to help clients maximise the value from the information collected and deal with client delivery issues that arise, escalating as appropriate.

Experience
M&A experience across a variety of projects with a background in retirement, reward or health & benefits. Experience working within financial services M&A with a consulting background. Proven ability to build relationships and support selling work to large organisations at headquarters and local country levels across international benefits topics. Strong project management skills and good organisational abilities. Comfortable working in a global environment and managing the nuances of cross-border, multicultural, multinational organisations.

About you
Self-motivated with the ability to effectively lead and work in teams, including remotely with clients and colleagues in other countries. Ability to build a network with client contacts and WTW colleagues worldwide. Positive and friendly approach to work with a keen desire to learn. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Aptitude for managing multiple stakeholder groups. Strong desire to consistently deliver high-quality results to clients and a proactive approach to client engagement.

Qualifications
Relevant experience in M&A consulting within retirement, reward or health & benefits. Demonstrated ability to work across multiple disciplines and geographies. No specific formal qualifications stated, but a consulting background and experience in financial services M&A are essential.