Senior Associate/Assistant Manager-HR Due Diligence

Job description

**Core Deal Value Creation roles & Responsibility: -** **1.** **HR Due Diligence (Buy-side & Sell-side)** - Lead end-to-end HR Due Diligence engagements for M&A, PE, carve-out, and demerger transactions. - Assess workforce composition, employee costs, compensation structures, benefits, ESOPs, and HR-related liabilities. - Review labour law compliance, employee litigation, talent dependencies, attrition risks, and retention concerns. - Evaluate HR operating models, governance frameworks, HRIS/HRMS, and shared service structures. - Prepare diligence reports, red flag summaries, management presentations, and deal structuring recommendations. - Participate in management discussions and diligence meetings. **2.** **Post-Merger Integration (PMI)** - Lead HR integration workstreams and Day-1/Day-100 readiness planning. - Develop integration roadmaps covering organisation design, policy harmonisation, compensation & benefits alignment, HR systems integration, and workforce restructuring. - Support Target Operating Model (TOM) design and synergy realisation. - Track integration milestones, risks, and PMO reporting. **3.** **Carve-Out & Separation Support** - Support HR separation, divestiture, and demerger projects. - Assess HR dependencies, standalone operating model requirements, and TSA design. - Manage employee transition, communication, and compliance activities. - Evaluate standalone HR costs and separation impacts. **4.** **Workforce Analytics & Financial Modelling** - Build workforce models, headcount bridges, attrition analyses, cost waterfalls, and synergy models. - Conduct employee cost analysis, restructuring assessments, and HR benchmarking exercises. - Translate workforce insights into executive and board-level presentations. **5.** **Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement** - Develop change management, communication, and employee engagement strategies. - Advise CHROs, HR leaders, and C-suite stakeholders throughout the transaction lifecycle. - Collaborate with legal, financial, tax, IT, and other advisory workstreams. - Support proposals, client pitches, thought leadership, and practice development initiatives.