Corporate Development Ventures & Acquisitions-Consultant/Specialist

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 . “Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: we care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO 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