Corporate Development Ventures & Acquisitions-Consultant/Specialist

Job Description

Position: Corporate Development Ventures & Acquisitions -Consultant/ Specialist Level

Location: London

About Accenture
Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com.

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About Accenture Ventures & Acquisitions

We are one of the most active strategic acquirors of other companies in our sector, and use our acquisitions as a catalyst to rotate Accenture towards new offerings and scale existing ones. You'll work as part of a Europe, Middle East & Africa (and broader Global) Corporate Development team operating end-to-end across the acquisition deal cycle, from M&A strategy definition and origination through deal execution and into integration. Accenture Corporate Development provides a fantastic opportunity to see this full transaction lifecycle, with the transaction volume usually only experienced in external advisory roles which are limited to shorter point phases of the lifecycle; unique in the sector.

M&A is a key component in Accenture’s growth strategy and you will be at the heart of it in a high profile role, with an opportunity to build corporate development skills and relationships, and business knowledge. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success and diverse ways of thinking, and which enables opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant and friendly environment with access to training and a global network of experts, learning a wide range of new skills on the job from experienced colleagues, then this could be the role for you.

In this role you will:

• Support the origination, evaluation, execution and negotiation of Accenture strategic acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, and divestitures, across Europe; main weighting of activity for this role is the deal execution phase

• Analyse market landscape to find appropriate targets according to inorganic strategy objectives and specified target criteria

• Evaluate acquisition opportunities and target companies, including develop target evaluation criteria, collaborating with sponsoring business strategy teams

• Business and financial analysis of potential merger and acquisition targets to judge viability and “fit”

• Develop financial models which demonstrate impact of M&A on Accenture economics

• Prepare target company valuations

• Perform appropriate due diligence exercises (including interaction with specialist teams), and coordinate across multi-disciplined workstreams

• Support negotiation of key transaction documents

• Prepare reports for senior Accenture executive team and Board review and approval

• Communicate professionally, confidently and competently with target management/owners and their advisors

• Work with operational and integration teams post acquisition to drive success

• Train other Corporate Development team members and share knowledge and techniques

In our team you will learn:

• Corporate Development and Corporate Finance techniques and experience from a highly active M&A programme and an experienced team

• Relationships and credibility with a broad range of stakeholders across the external M&A advisory and investment community, and with internal Accenture business sponsors, content experts, deal and operational roles

• Professional communication and relationship-building

• By access to a structured knowledge and experience base building on many closed transactions globally in recent years, and from international experts and external advisors

• Due diligence, both financial and operational

• Advanced programme management

• Deal execution, including operational problem-solving, judgement, legal agreements and negotiation skills

Job Qualifications - we are looking for the following experience:

• Up to 5 years of experience gained in Big Four (or comparable) Corporate Finance or Transaction Services, or in other Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory or in a Corporate Development department, preferably with demonstrable experience in M&A transactions and corporate finance techniques

• University degree in finance, and/or ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CFA qualified

• Strong programme management and commercial skills

• Excellent analytical (including advanced Excel modelling skills), writing, and verbal skills

• Experience using AI tools

• Professional maturity and personal integrity

• Robust communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills

• Strong work ethic and ambition

• Proficiency in English. Other European languages will be an advantage

Application Deadline: ongoing

Accenture reserves the right to close the role once a suitable candidate is found.

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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