Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions student opportunities

In Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, you’ll help organisations define an optimal structure through workforce alignment to achieve operational synergies while building your career.
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What is Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions Services?

Our People Advisory Services – HR Mergers & Acquisitions practice supports clients in Oceania and and across the world through mergers, acquisitions, restructuring and divestments. As the workforce represents a significant cost to organisations, we help clients to identify and manage people risks and issues associated with a transaction and to mitigate potential financial and commercial impacts.

Our team focuses on the people considerations from end-to-end of business transactions, helping clients to understand workforce terms, conditions and their obligations; and increasing the success of business transactions through human- centred change and transition strategies.

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What could you be doing?

  • Review employee information and analysing people data around remuneration, employment terms, culture and HR policies and processes to identify key risks, benefits or issues that could drive the transaction deal price
  • Assist with preparation of reports summarising key risks, issues, opportunities and employment-related costs relating to integration or separation in a transaction
  • Support the development of human centred strategies for employee transition, and cultural and operational integration plans
  • Provide project management support for the HR workstream in businesses undergoing a transition
  • Participate in business development initiatives, such as proposals, new business opportunities and development of tools and technologies to enhance team operations
  • Support the implementation of EY tools to support the key people activities during a transaction, transformation and restructure, including organisational design

What will you bring to the team?

  • A creative, inquisitive and logical mind
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Problem solving skills, and ability to think critically
  • Strong quantitative skills supported by Excel and/or data analytics
  • capabilities to produce data driven insights
  • Project management skills
  • An interest in human centred design and change management
  • Ability to adapt to change and work through ambiguity
  • Willingness to contribute to a high performing team culture
  • A strong work ethic and the ability to flex to new challenges and ideas in a collaborative team environment

Your career journey in Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions Services

As a graduate, you’ll be part of our 12-month graduate development program that has been developed for graduates in all service lines, and is focused on connection, learning and celebration.

The program will provide you with the opportunity to network with your peers from other service lines and geographies. Running in parallel to your technical learning, you will develop leadership skills to become a successful graduate, and as you grow as a transformative leader.

As a Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions, you’ll take part in:

  • Classroom and online technical training sessions led by the People Advisory Services – HR Mergers & Acquisitions team
  • Consulting participation in client engagements, including attendance at client meetings, preparing deliverables and project management support
  • Consulting skills such as building client rapport, effective business writing and communication and approach to presentations
  • Attendance at the Asia-Pacific Community of Practice for Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Attendance at a graduate training program, which provides an opportunity to build your network and receive training on technical and soft consulting skills

As a vacationer, after our company induction, you’ll start developing an understanding of how our Workforce Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions Services teams work and will be ready to work alongside teams on real client projects. You’ll meet other new vacationers from your office.

Your buddy and your counsellor will help you learn your way around the organisation, set your goals and plan your development while you’re here. You'll be well looked after with ongoing learning throughout the Vacationer Program with sessions facilitated by our Learning and Development team, Campus Recruitment team and service line specific training. The Vacationer Program is a great way to gain valuable audit experience, skills and networks to start building your career.

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There is continuous learning available, no matter what stage of your career. Whether it’s on the job exposure to new organisations, sectors or business problems, working with thought leaders, or accessing high quality formal training.

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