Consultant

We don't follow trends. We start them. We drive change and deliver more to make a tangible difference for our clients and communities.

That's our commitment. This is your opportunity.

We are looking for a Consultant to join our Business Advisory, Integrated M&A team in our Sydney office where you will be working with seasoned M&A practitioners. We are a team with big ambitions and are looking for experienced professionals like you to bring it to life! This is a unique opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a high growth business unit within the global law firm DLA Piper. You can help shape the future of DLA Piper Business Advisory and challenge the traditional way of doing things.

We would like to hear from you if you if you are a team player coming with experience in M&A execution within an in-house Corporate Development team and/or M&A advisory.

Main duties and responsibilities

• Support the delivery of successful engagements by supporting our clients to develop and execute inorganic growth strategies across the end-to-end M&A life cycle
• Build and analyse financial models for potential inorganic growth initiatives
• Develop strong relationships with DLA Piper colleagues by capturing mindshare and creating influence across all teams
• Contribute to the delivery of regional sales targets by supporting the sales process
• Capture local insights and collaborate with solution teams to develop and enhance solutions and services

About you

• A collaborator and team player who thrives when interacting within a high-calibre team
• Ability to balance getting the job done at a high quality, while contributing to a fun environment
• Exceptional interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
• Fantastic written and communication skills
• An analytical approach to problem solving
• Strong financial modelling and analysis skills
• Be well-managed and thrive off implementation and execution
• Innovative, strategic thinking and above all curious
• Client care is fundamental in your approach to delivery – client experience and outcomes are everything

About us

DLA Piper Business Advisory

DLA Piper Business Advisory provides solutions to clients' complex challenges through integrated teams of highly experienced consultants and lawyers. Our legal adjacent commercial solutions centre around DLA Piper’s core legal strengths and target specific client challenges. Our international management consulting team has developed our services drawing from decades of experience in strategy, financial advisory, transformation, risk management and organisational change to support the firm’s areas of global focus. We offer clients a range of services in three key areas - Integrated M&A, Sustainability & ESG and Strategic Change.

DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Our global reach ensures that we can help businesses with their legal needs anywhere in the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality, service excellence and value to our clients and offering practical and innovative legal solutions to help them succeed. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies, as well as government and public sector bodies

Our values

In everything we do connected with our People, our Clients and our Communities, we live by these values:

• Be Supportive – we are compassionate and inclusive, valuing diversity and acting thoughtfully
• Be Collaborative - we are proactive, passionate team players investing in our relationships
• Be Bold - we are fearless and inquisitive, challenging ourselves to think big and find creative new solutions
• Be Exceptional - we are strategic and driven, exceeding standards and expectations

Diversity and inclusion

At DLA Piper, diversity and inclusion underpins how we live our values and everything we do. We believe that everyone has a voice, and that everyone’s voice counts. We know that the rich diversity across our firm makes us stronger, more innovative and creative, which helps us to better serve our clients and communities. We are committed to providing an inclusive working environment and culture across our global firm, where everyone can bring their authentic self to work.

Diversity of perspective, thought, background and culture combine to make us the leading global law firm; that’s why we actively seek to build balanced teams. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.

Hybrid working

We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That's why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.

Pre-engagement screening

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits and where relevant, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and work-related references.

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