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Human Resources professionals develop and execute HR strategies, programs, and services across one or more parts of the employee lifecycle to attract, develop and retain a highly engaged and differentiated workforce that enables the execution of human capital and business strategies.

Work you will do

As a HR Ventures & Acquisitions Deal Execution Associate Manager, you provide HR, project management and V&A service delivery management for the execution of due diligence and integration of Accenture's V&A transactions globally (multi-country).

The V&A HR Deal Execution Associate Manager will be assigned to various North American and/or global V&A transactions and projects and will be accountable for supporting and sometimes leading the success, effectiveness, and on-time delivery of assigned HR due diligence and integration work stream activities for primary stakeholders and sponsoring organization of acquisition (Services/MU).

Key Responsibilities:

Due Diligence Phase: (includes solution development)

• Work with Global V&A Deal Execution Lead/team to conduct HR due diligence activities and tasks, including:

• Manage project planning processes and development and customization of work plans for individual V&A transactions

• Support HR due diligence work stream approach and processes to:

  • Tailor, track and maintain HR Due Diligence Information Request Lists

  • Conduct audit and review of HR information provided in data room by Seller company

  • Analyze and summarize data into a cohesive point of view around the findings

  • Complete required HR DD analyses and deliverables (i.e., compensation and benefits, HR related liabilities, retention plan modeling, etc.)

• Build relationships to establish credibility with internal and external SMEs and Seller Company representatives

• Identify/estimate costs for acquisition business case

• Work across all key stakeholder groups, in particular with acquired Leadership (Client), Finance, Legal, Tax, Global Mobility and Corporate Development

• Preliminary development of HR solution plan (with oversight from Deal Execution Lead) for key human resource decisions, including but not limited to compensation, benefits, perquisites, retirement/pension plans, payroll and salary grade structure, incentives (short-term, long-term, sales force-specific, deferred), staffing approach, culture, HR compliance and policies

Integration Phase:

• Work with Global V&A Deal Execution Lead/team to plan and drive assigned HR integration planning and execution activities and tasks including:

• Plan for the HR process impacts involving (Accenture) non-standard approaches, working directly with the HR process owners.

• Create and/or drive HR transition calendar, work plan and budget, including leveraging and overseeing direct or indirect team members who are responsible for executing certain tasks

• Support the end to end process by completing HR tasks to include consultation and communications, agreement to a set of terms and conditions, set-up and preparation of systems including SAP and payroll and initial inductions.

• Document HR activities that must be addressed during ongoing operations.

• Facilitate an effective handover to include close out documentation (Deal summary, Policy Compliance Checklist, SharePoint)

• Manage local resources for the employee transfer processes under the local Acquired Rights Directive (ARD) regulations