(Senior) Associate

Description

(Senior) Associate, Digital and Technology Services

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is aglobalconsultingfirm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. Wetake a hands-on approach to solving our clients' problems andassistingthem in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positivelyimpactour clients and shape ourindustry. The collaborative environment and engaging work-guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity-are why our people love working at A&M.

The Team

A&M Digital and Technology Services EMEA is a dynamic and fast-growing practice that combines IT M&A advisory, Data and AI consulting, and digitally enabled performance improvement and transformation for private equity and corporate clients. We have evolved digital into a proposition built on a deep technology foundation combined with data and analytics, customer and workforce experience, digital strategy, sales and marketing, and new digital business models-strongly complementing our turnaround, results-driven heritage. We help transform the performance of companies facing, or at risk of, digital disruption and provide practical guidance on how every aspect of a business can be digitally enabled sustainably and at scale.

Within the Business Technology pillar, we partner with Private Equity funds, Corporates, and Financial Services clients across Europe and internationally to:

• Carry out effective technology and product due diligence pre-deal.
• Support integration and separation through the deal lifecycle until TSA exit.
• Create value in private equity portfolio companies by improving performance and output while reducing costs.

We frequently collaborate across disciplines and coordinate closely with other A&M practices such as Private Equity Performance Improvement, Corporate Transactions, Restructuring, and Financial Due Diligence.

How You Will Contribute

• Serve as a core member of engagement teams, structuring problem statements, building hypotheses, and testing them with judicious use of internal and external data—even where data is limited.
• Lead discrete workstreams, performing robust analysis and translating findings into clear, actionable insights and executive-ready deliverables.
• Develop financial/operational models in Excel; create compelling, well-structured materials in PowerPoint and Word to communicate recommendations.
• Support delivery of complex change across Target Operating Model design, IT and Digital transformation programs, Enterprise Architecture, and strategic cost reduction.
• Contribute to IT due diligence (pre- and post-deal), integration and separation planning, synergy identification, and value creation initiatives.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional A&M teams and manage day-to-day interactions with client stakeholders.
• Embrace AI-enabled tools and accelerators to enhance throughput, quality, and pace of delivery.
• Role-model A&M's core values-integrity, quality, objectivity, inclusive diversity, fun, and personal reward-on every engagement.

Qualifications

• Strong consulting toolkit: framing issues, building hypotheses, finding and using data appropriately, and drawing evidence-based conclusions.
• Experience developing Excel-based models; skilled in structuring and writing clear PowerPoint and Word presentations and reports.
• Exposure to Target Operating Model design, IT/Digital transformation, Enterprise Architecture, and strategic cost reduction.
• Understanding of digital technologies, including Big Data and predictive analytics, RPA, Machine Learning and AI, and Customer Experience/Omni-channel.
• Experience working pre- and post-deal with Private Equity firms and/or blue-chip corporates.
• Record of IT/Technology performance improvement within a top-tier technology advisory, strategy, or traditional advisory firm.
• Proven ability to work in international teams and deliver measurable improvements in Technology and IT.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; objective, fact-based problem solver.
• Strong attention to detail; ability to deliver high-quality outputs under tight deadlines.
• Very strong academic track record with robust analytical rigor.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills.
• Proficiency with AI tools to accelerate and enhance productivity.
• Fluent business-level English; additional European languages (French, Spanish, German, or Italian) highly desirable.
• Typically 5-10 years of professional experience.

Your journey at A&M

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