Job Title: Value Creation Manager (Transactions Advisory)
Location: Remote / Travel as needed
Duration: Contract / Project-Based
Role Overview
Value Creation Manager to support buy-side and sell-side transaction engagements, with a focus on carve-outs and standalone readiness. This role sits within a transactions advisory team and is responsible for helping clients validate, optimize, and realize value throughout the transaction lifecycle.
This is a high-impact, client-facing role ideal for professionals with strong experience in transaction advisory, operational consulting, and separation planning.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support carve-out and standalone transaction engagements
- Conduct standalone, one-time, and stranded cost assessments
- Perform synergy and interdependency analysis
- Support separation planning and readiness assessments
- Assist in Transition Service Agreement (TSA) development and scheduling
- Support operating model design and optimization
- Manage multiple engagements simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and quality
- Prepare executive-level reports, presentations, and client deliverables
- Perform detailed analysis to identify value creation opportunities
- Collaborate across cross-functional workstreams
- Mentor junior team members and support team development
- Contribute to internal training and knowledge-sharing initiatives
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or related field (MBA preferred)
- 6+ years of experience in one or more of the following:
- Management consulting
- Transaction advisory
- Corporate development
- Strong experience in M&A, carve-outs, integration, or separation work
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects in fast-paced environments
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP, CPA, CMA, or similar certifications
- Experience supporting private equity or strategic transactions
- Background in operating model design or transformation initiatives
Additional Details
- Client-facing role with exposure to senior stakeholders
- High-visibility transaction engagements
- Travel required as needed
Sample Experience (Redacted Example 1)
Transaction Advisory / Value Creation Consultant (Contract)
Oct 2025 Present
- Supported deal management office (DMO) activities including governance structure, workstream charters, steering committees, and executive reporting across a large cross-border carve-out engagement
- Conducted standalone, stranded, and one-time cost assessments across IT and functional workstreams
- Built TSA schedules including service scoping, cost estimation, and exit timeline planning for legal and counterparty review
- Performed synergy identification and tracking across Day 1 and Day 100 targets
- Mapped interdependencies across IT, finance, supply chain, and HR functions to identify critical path activities and sequencing requirements
- Developed executive-level reports and presentations for senior leadership and private equity stakeholders
- Supported and mentored junior team members across workstreams
Sample Experience (Redacted Example 2)
Independent Transaction Finance & Value Creation Consultant
Mar 2020 Present
- Supported synergy identification, valuation, and post-close tracking across acquisition and integration workstreams
- Developed pro forma financial statements and transaction models to support integration planning and decision-making
- Identified and analyzed redundant activities, stranded costs, and overlapping cost structures following acquisitions
- Supported integration planning standard operating procedures (SOPs) for acquisition-heavy environments
- Served as interim FP&A and corporate development support across multiple organizations, including:
- Budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Board reporting and executive dashboards
- KPI development and performance tracking
- Cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning
- Built operating models and supported PE-backed transaction processes including CIM support and synergy tracking
- Assisted in valuation modeling, merger analysis, and pro forma affordability assessments for strategic transactions
- Developed monthly reporting packages and long-range planning models for PE-owned and portfolio companies