M&A I&D IT Manager (Chicago)

Position Summary






M&A IT Manager
Our Deloitte Strategy & Transactions team helps guide clients through their most critical moments and transformational initiatives. We offer comprehensive end-to-end support and advisory services, covering areas such as valuation modeling, cost optimization, restructuring, business design and transformation, infrastructure and real estate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and sustainability. The team works closely with clients at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate challenges, avoid financial pitfalls, and implement practical solutions before, during, and after major transformational projects or transactions creating lasting impact.
Deloitte is seeking an M&A IT Manager to join our M&A Integration & Divestiture (I&D) team within our broader Strategy & Transactions practice. In this role, you will support clients through complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and business transformation initiatives, focusing on technology. Apply today to help clients navigate some of their most critical moments of change!
Recruiting for this role ends on 07/31/2026.
Work You’ll Do
As an M&A IT Manager you will help clients evaluate IT environments, define integration and separation strategies, and drive execution across transaction milestones. You will be responsible for:
• Leading IT due diligence, integration, separation, and transformation workstreams across mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures
• Assessing client technology environments, identifying risks and dependencies, and developing recommendations for Day 1, TSA, and long-term transition planning
• Managing project plans, workstream deliverables, status reporting, and cross-functional coordination with business, finance, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application stakeholders
• Developing client-ready materials, including assessments, operating models, roadmaps, and executive-level presentations
• Coaching junior team members, managing workstream execution, and supporting business development, proposal development, and practice-building activities
A successful candidate would possess these skills:
• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to mentor and provide clear guidance to others
The Team
M&A advises corporate and PE clients across inorganic growth/divestiture scenarios through M&A strategy, diligence, integration/separation planning and execution, financial and modeling services, and transaction financing.
Deloitte’s M&A I&D team assists our clients with deal closing, integration and divestiture strategy and governance, integration and divestiture accounting and reporting services, developing and executing a Day 1 implementation plan, and addressing longer-term integration needs to create the future-state organization our clients envision. Within M&A I&D, our M&A IT team focuses on functional integration & separation activities particular to the IT component of a deal. The scope of their work may include end-state system architecture, application rationalization, and system or data migration. They provide subject matter knowledge across critical components of IT (e.g., infrastructure, applications, IT operations, IT finances and expenses, Active Directory, end-user computing, messaging, enterprise architecture, testing). This team helps clients refocus their IT capabilities and identify their optimal transaction and transformation strategies. As the Next-Gen provider of M&A services, M&A IT uses Delivery Innovation, Cloud and Flexible Compute Services to enhance every aspect of IT within the M&A landscape.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree
• 6+ years experience in M&A integration and/or divestiture service delivery within the information technology function
• 6+ years experience leading IT due diligence, IT integration, IT separation, or IT transformation workstreams
• 6+ years experience assessing enterprise applications, infrastructure, data, cybersecurity, and IT operating model impacts in a transaction or transformation environment
• 6+ years experience developing integration plans, separation plans, TSA inputs, or Day 1 and Day 100 technology roadmaps
• 6+ years experience managing project plans, deliverables, stakeholder meetings, and executive status reporting
• 6+ years consulting or industry experience; alternatively, Master of Business Administration (MBA) and 4+ years of consulting or industry experience
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Preferred:
• Experience supporting M&A transactions in a consulting environment
• Experience with divestiture planning, TSA development, and carve-out execution
• Experience working with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Workday, Salesforce, ServiceNow, or Microsoft technologies
• Experience developing PowerPoint deliverables and Excel-based analyses for executive and steering committee audiences
• Experience leading teams and managing multiple workstreams across complex client engagements
• PMP, ITIL, TOGAF, cloud, or cybersecurity certification
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $155,600 to $306,800.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
This position is aligned with the Core Talent Model. To view the associated benefit package, please reference this document USBenefitsJourneyCDandETAM

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