Senior Consultant - M&A Consulting

Senior Consultant

Cognizant Consulting, Mergers & Acquisitions

ABOUT US

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

COGNIZANT CONSULTING

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value. We provide several Business and IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions.

The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we're growing!

The Role

We're looking for Senior Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant (which is a Manager level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

We believe that involving IT teams early and often during M&A can help enterprises realize more value from the operational and market synergies that bring businesses together. Our team supports projects that are highly visible in the market and you'll have a chance to use your entrepreneurial spirit along with your knowledge and experience to help clients shape their future state and future successes. As part of our overall portfolio, we help clients create a successful business outcome through the M&A Process. We focus on Integration Management, IT Assessments, Production Synergies, IT Operating Models, Portfolio Rationalization, Cost Strategies, and enabling business process optimization to transform the business and contribute to the overall success of the merger. This is a true advisory practice where you'll play a key role in helping CEOs, CIOs, and CTOs solve their most strategic problems. Our focus on Business-Driven IT Strategy, sets us apart from our competition. Using trusted methodology and cutting-edge technology, we identify the best ways to integrate and operationalize processes and systems, definite future state operating model, and create roadmaps that actually work. If you're interested in being part of a high-performing team that adds value across industries and engagements, this is the home for you.

Responsibilities

• Consult directly with F2000 clients and provide post-merger integration advisory services designed to help them solve their most complex business challenges
• Serve as a true management consultant; conduct AS-IS assessment of the acquired company's IT application & infrastructure landscape and define the interim / end state of the acquisition
• Design solutions that reduce the overlap of IT in the merged companies by rationalizing application portfolios and IT organizations
• Support IT Strategy engagements and guide clients to successful business outcomes by identifying ways to improve the IT operating model, enhancing assuring end-user satisfaction with integrated systems, improving communications, enhancing process, defining new business models, and supporting IT capabilities needed to create competitive advantage
• Serve as a Senior Consultant in client-facing setting; design our approach, identify appropriate tools and methodologies, lead client workshops and discussions, perform analyses, draw conclusions, formulate strategic recommendations based upon those, and develop business cases and roadmaps to lead us there
• Assess client's and target's IT organizations and define operating models which are aligned to business objectives (IT Organization Assessment, IT Governance, Workforce Optimization, IT Skill Assessment, IT Process Improvement, IT Portfolio Management, Project Prioritization, SDLC assessments, etc.)
• Conduct and lead Application Portfolio Rationalization assessments to determine the best technology disposition of client's IT application portfolio
• Conduct IT Cost Optimization assessments to help IT leaders assess their IT budgets and identify cost optimization/ rationalization opportunities

Qualifications

• 4 - 8 + years of experience in a mix of Consulting, Digital Strategy, Advisory, Technology, and/or managing programs for transformations for large-scale initiatives
• Experience leading post-merger initiatives spanning Business-Driven IT Strategy, Business Operations & Process Transformation, IT Organization Performance, IT Operating Models, Application Portfolio Rationalization, Global Sourcing Transformation and Merger/Divestiture Planning and Execution
• Previous experience leading or managing teams to successful client outcomes related to planning, structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing IT strategy recommendations (e.g., IT capability improvements, key initiatives, roadmaps)
• Subject matter knowledge and working understanding of current digital trends such as cloud, robotics and process automation, artificial intelligence, blockchain, devops, agile
• A track record of developing business cases to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, and/or IT transformation
• Leadership skills that bring out the best in others; the ability to oversee multiple project managers who are working toward a common goal: the best possible outcome for a client
• High-impact presentation skill and the ability to develop detailed and compelling deliverables that convey complex thoughts and ideas to senior leadership
• The ability to manage high-level stakeholders and expectations, internally and externally
• Being entrepreneurial, proactive, insightful, productive, pragmatic, and practical
• The willingness and ability to travel up to 75%, depending on the project
• MBA or Master's degree strongly preferred; Bachelor degree required

Work Authorization

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)