Director, IT Due Diligence

**Description** Director, IT Due Diligence & Technology Performance Improvement Alvarez & Marsal Paris Alvarez & Marsal ("A&M") is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c. 6000 staff and over 70 offices worldwide. We offer a broad range of professional services including Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services. Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Our Business Technology Performance Improvement team works with clients across Europe to: - Realign the performance of the technology / IT function through operational restructuring to directly improve the earnings and cashflow within the business - Carry out effective technology and product due diligence pre-transaction, and provide necessary post transaction services (Post Merger Integration, Carve Out, 100 day planning) - Shape and deliver enterprise wide systems & online programmes in order to deliver performance improvement via business transformation and/or cost reduction programmes - Design and implement Digital Transformation initiatives in Data Science and Analytics, Digital Workforce and Artificial Intelligence and Digitisation - Take interim management positions for example (and depending on experience) CIO, CTO, IT Director, Program Manager, Customer Experience initiatives etc. Reason for the opportunity Against a backdrop of unprecedented growth, an opportunity exists for us to strengthen our Business Technology team at the Director level in Paris, in order to provide additional services to our clients. The successful appointee will play a key part in both client project delivery and continued business development. They will be responsible for supporting clients to successfully deliver major projects in such areas as; Strategic IT planning; Product Technology; Enterprise Architecture; Business Intelligence; Target Operating Model Design; Customer Management Platforms; IT Transformation programmes; Enterprise Resource Planning; IT Supplier Performance Management; Global IT Sourcing; Business Process Outsourcing; and Digital Disruption. Their skill set will include: - A minimum of 10 years experience of IT Advisory including pre-deal IT and Technology due diligence of the corporate IT function, as well as core technologies and digital assets - An appreciation of the challenges that businesses face within the deal environment including responsibility for leading post deal activities such as IT integrations and separations, identifying IT synergies and delivering outsourcing opportunities and cost reduction - Senior level corporate experience (CIO, program management and/ or transformation roles) combined with a professional services background - Strong business technologist exposure - Experience in preparing and presenting key technology material including IT separation playbooks, Day 1 technology models and cut-over plans, post - merger integrations (PMI) and 100 day planning - An understanding of digital technology including analysis and data mapping skills, IT cost trends, IT product and support systems and vendor / supplier relationships - Well-developed stakeholder management skills including addressing complex technical risks and issues and managing key client relationships and expectations - Clear ability to deliver the latest thinking and collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams delivering projects using a variety of methodologies including Waterfall & Agile - A consulting toolkit including framing business issues, judiciously findings and using internal and external data to test hypotheses and draw conclusions, developing business models using Excel and structuring and write PowerPoint and Word presentations and reports - A successful track record in IT / Technology performance improvement at a top tier strategy or advisory firm - Experience of working pre deal and post deal with PE firms and blue chip corporates - Proven ability to work in international teams and create measurable and identifiable improvements in Technology & IT - Clear ability to deliver the latest thinking within a highly competitive advisory marketplace. - Excellent attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines - A very strong academic record including: - Robust analytical rigour - Capacity to thrive in a fast-paced and uncertain environment - Fluent business level English & French is essential. Additional European language skills including Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian are highly desirable