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Corporate Development Strategy Consultant

ebury
London
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<div class="content-intro"><p>Ebury helps ambitious businesses unlock global growth, and we take the same approach with our people. We encourage innovation and movement, collaboration and problem-solving, and foster an environment where everyone can feel they belong, are valued, supported and empowered to succeed.</p>
<p>If you’re a collaborator who wants to help transform how businesses operate globally, get in touch - we’d love to discuss how Ebury can accelerate your career so you can shape the future.</p></div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Corporate Development Manager</strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Ebury London Office - Hybrid: 4 days in the office, 1 day working from home per week</strong></span></p>
<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Opportunity:</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Ebury is growing on two fronts at once: organically, into new markets and customer segments, and inorganically, through acquisitions that add capability, licences and clients faster than we could build them ourselves. Corporate Development sits at the centre of both.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We're looking for an experienced management consultant to join the team in London. The role has two facets, and you will live through both.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the first, you'll run internal strategic projects — end-to-end reviews of the processes that determine how well Ebury actually runs. Client onboarding is the first of these: a journey that touches Sales, Compliance, Operations, Product and Technology across multiple jurisdictions, and where the difference between good and excellent is worth a great deal in conversion, cost-to-serve and client experience. You will diagnose it properly, size the prize, design the target state, and then stay with it until something has genuinely changed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the second, you'll move onto integration work behind our acquisitions — turning a deal thesis into an operating reality across systems, people, clients and regulatory permissions.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">This is a role for someone who wants to stop handing over the recommendation and start owning the outcome.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You'll work closely with:</span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Corporate Development team, with exposure to the CEO and Executive Committee</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Functional leaders across Operations, Compliance, Finance, Sales, Product and Technology, Data and Legal</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Counterparties, advisers and target management teams</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What you'll do:</span></h2>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strategic Projects and Internal Transformation</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Own end-to-end reviews of Ebury's core operating processes, beginning with client onboarding</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Map the current state honestly — cycle times, drop-off points, rework, manual intervention, cost-to-serve — and quantify where value is lost</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Look at the process across different customer segments and in different jurisdictions</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Design the target state, sequence it into something deliverable, and build the business case behind it</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Work through functional owners to land the change, then measure whether it actually landed</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Corporate Strategy and M&amp;A Support</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Market mapping, target screening, and competitive and landscape analysis</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Commercial and operational due diligence support: business model, unit economics, client base quality, operational scalability</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Valuation and synergy modelling, and the business case behind a recommendation to proceed</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Board, ExCo and investment committee materials</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Post-Merger Integration</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Plan and run integration workstreams across operating model, systems, people, clients and regulatory permissions</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Day 1 readiness and the 100-day plan: what must be true, by when, and who owns it</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Track synergy delivery against the assumptions underwritten at deal approval, and escalate early when they slip</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Act as the bridge between what was assumed in the deal model and what is true on the ground</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Analysis and Decision Support</span></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Build the financial and operational models that inform capital allocation decisions</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Turn ambiguous, under-specified questions into structured recommendations an executive team can act on</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Bring a view. We are not looking for neutral summaries.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What success looks like (12–18 months)</span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The onboarding review is delivered, and there is a measurable improvement in cycle time, conversion and cost-to-serve that can be attributed to it</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Functional leaders treat you as a partner they call early, not a reviewer they manage around</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You can lead an integration workstream independently, and are trusted to represent Ebury with a target's management team</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Your analysis is used in decisions at ExCo and Board level, and holds up under challenge</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">What makes this role challenging: </span></h2>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>You have no line authority.</strong> Every change you propose is delivered by a team that doesn't report to you and already has a roadmap. Influence, credibility and follow-through are the job.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Ebury is a regulated business in many jurisdictions.</strong> Elegant operating model solutions frequently die on a licensing, permissions or local supervisory constraint. You need to find that out early, not late.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The recommendation is the easy part.</strong> Unlike consulting, you don't leave after the readout. You own the implementation and the number.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The data is not clean.</strong> You will often build the view yourself rather than request it, and be able to defend how you built it.</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>The work is lumpy.</strong> Deal activity is unpredictable. You may be deep in a process review one week and in a data room the next, and you need to be able to hold both.</span></li>
</ul>
<h2><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Who we are looking for:</span></h2>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Prior M&amp;A or integration experience is a plus, not a requirement. We are looking for someone with genuine consulting craft, strong commercial instincts and the agency to operate without a partner above them defining the workplan.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Must-have:</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">4–7 years of management consulting experience, ideally at a Big 4 firm (Deloitte, PwC, KPMG, EY) or a comparable strategy or transaction advisory practice</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A track record of owning workstreams end to end — problem definition, analysis, recommendation and client sign-off</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Strong analytical toolkit: structured problem solving, financial modelling, advanced Excel, comfort working with imperfect data</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Executive-grade written and verbal communication, including PowerPoint that survives a Board audience</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Degree in a numerate or analytical discipline (Engineering, Economics, Business, Sciences or similar)</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Fluent English, with daily collaboration across global commercial, technology and Legal/Compliance/Risk stakeholders</span></li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Nice-to-have:</strong></span></p>
<ul>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Exposure to financial services, payments, FX or lending</span></li>
<li style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Post-merger integration,

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