Our partner, an international law firm, with offices in the UK, UAE, KSA, Lebanon, Kuwait, and Egypt, is currently looking for a Merger & Acquisition Manager, based in Lebanon, handling group-wide operations.
Company Overview :
It’s a top Kuwaiti firm providing specialized guidance on corporate and litigation issues, mirroring international standards. Focusing on cross-border transactions, they navigate clients through M&A, venture capital, equity, debt offerings, and litigation with a track record of success. Renowned for their M&A expertise, they have managed multiple significant deals.
Job Overview:
The M&A manager duties encompass the firm’s internal merger and acquisition life-cycle with a strong mix of operational and strategic aspects across workforce planning, learning and development, talent management, performance management, organizational change, onboarding, engagement, and reward. He/she performs his/her functions with a focus on delivering value to the firm’s business through integration readiness assessments, developing integration strategies, target due diligence, and post-close integration management.
Objectives and Responsibilities of the M&A Manager
Leadership/Supervisory Role:
The M&A Manager is tasked with leading internal merger and acquisition transactions through cross-functional due diligence organization. He works through diligence processes and gathers and leverages integration planning inputs in order to support integration planning and valuation inputs.
He also gathers important information regarding risks and opportunities for impending and ongoing M&A activities.
Strategy:
The M&A Manager plays a strategic role in leading, planning, and providing support for due diligence activities across all functional areas of any transaction inclusive of commercial, financial, products, operations, technology, sales, and marketing. In this position, he/she compiles due diligence integration plans and supports market research required by department, for example, competitive analyses, in order to enable informed decision-making for sensitive merger and acquisition transactions.
Research and Analytics:
The M&A Manager will also play an analytical role where he/she will assist with modelling and financial analysis. He/she also refines and completes market research and strategic fit analyses.
In this capacity, he/she enables detailed target analysis and financial model lead creation using KPIs and other variables as sales drivers in order to estimate revenue and profitability of merger or acquisition over a multi-year project period. He/she will develop operating models that are highly flexible in order to be able to manoeuvre through multiple scenarios for the purpose of enabling any necessary and abrupt changes on a real-time basis.
He/she is also tasked with leading the preparation of valuation models following the business’s M&A standards and performing key analyses inclusive of ROIC, accretion and dilution analyses, comparable company analysis, and discounted cash flow analyses.
Collaboration:
The role of the M&A manager is also a collaborative one and, as such, he/she partners with the legal department in order to ensure that proper protocols and processes are followed and adhered to in a timely manner for each transaction.
He/she also works hand-in-hand with top leadership in the business development department in making final approvals of internal M&A transactions as well as delivering well communicated,
balanced, and comprehensive analyses for each stage of merger and acquisition transactions for the business’s executives and key stakeholders.
In this collaboration he/she also identifies markets, industries, geographies, and technologies that complement the firm’s overall M&A strategy and translate these analyses into specified targets. The M&A manager additionally works with external business leadership of prospecting businesses in supporting management and execution of the merger or acquisition process throughout the transaction life cycle.
Required Qualifications
Education:
He/she must have a master’s degree in business, Finance, Economics or any other related field.
Experience:
A candidate for this position must have had at least 8-10 years in working experience in an M&A capacity within a fast-paced, highly competitive, and dynamic environment.
The candidate should demonstrate an in-depth operational and valuation financial modelling experience and an ability to generate new business through the exploitation of existent relationships as well as the development of new relationships in a business’s industry.
He/she should also have experience making effective decisions through the analysis of information and proficient deal analysis, negotiation and execution.
A suitable candidate will also have had a vast and successful track record of managing transactions, transaction valuation, and strategic transaction analyses.
Communication Skills:
Communication skills, both in written and verbal form, are an essential skill for the M&A Manager.
He/she will also be required to draft regular reports and make presentations to the business’s executives, stakeholders, and collaborating personnel for final informed decision-making.
Ms Office/Software:
A candidate for this position must be highly proficient in the use of Ms Word, Ms Excel, and PowerPoint, necessary for the creation of visually and verbally engaging reports and presentations for the business’s executives, stakeholders, and collaborating personnel.
Analytical Skills:
He/she must also be highly skilled in efficiently analysing large data quantities and driving financial modelling and due diligence.
He/she should be able to process raw information and data, translating this into actionable insights for informed decision-making within the department.
Interpersonal Skills:
The M&A Manager must also be flexible, open, and welcoming to change, have an ability to work in a constantly evolving environment, have an executive presence, have a positive can-do attitude, be self-motivated and proactive.
