M&A Project Manager

Project overview

To strengthen our team at our client, we are looking for an M&A Project Manager!

Background Information:

The subject of the assignment is the technical support of a sell-side M&A transaction in the period between signing and closing. The scope of services includes the creation and preparation of transaction-related planning, documentation, and decision-making documents, as well as the structured presentation of dependencies, risks, open points, and closing-relevant matters. Furthermore, the assignment includes the creation of reporting and documentation artifacts for the transparent presentation of transaction progress.

Task Description:

Milestones:

Must Haves:

• Creation and updating of an integrated transaction plan including documented milestones, dependencies, and critical paths
• Advice on coordination, monitoring, and transparency assurance of deal streams within the scope of the Deal Execution PMO
• Creation and consolidation of overviews of open points, decisions, risks, dependencies, and identified matters in the transaction context
• Creation of documentation for transaction-related work packages and their status of completion
• Preparation of information on contractual, financial, tax, personnel, IT-related, operational, and commercial transaction matters
• Creation of closing checklists including documented tasks, deadlines, and implementation statuses
• Documentation of conditions, approvals, supplementary agreements, and other closing-relevant transaction components
• Creation of decision documents, status reports, and management summaries on transaction-relevant matters
• Creation of consolidated presentations of risks, open points, decisions, dependencies, and possible courses of action
• Preparation of complex transaction matters in German and English for management documents
• Creation of an integrated transaction plan with documented milestones, dependencies, and critical path
• Creation of consolidated overviews of transaction-related work packages and their status of completion
• Creation of closing checklists with documented tasks, deadlines, and implementation statuses
• Creation of status reports, decision documents, and management summaries
• Creation of consolidated presentations of risks, open points, decisions, and dependencies
• Very good German language skills
• Analytical thinking skills
• Experience in Business Analysis and root cause analysis
• Very good knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Office
• Experience in project planning

Nice to have

• Experience in the M&A environment
• Experience with transaction planning and coordination
• Experience in reporting and in the creation of management documents, status reports, and decision bases

Project details

• Start: 2026-11
• Duration: 2 Monate
• Remote: remote
• Location: München, Deutschland, DE
• Rate: 52-52 EUR/h
• Languages: German