Manager, Mergers & Acquisition Risk

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading or both content and technology? If yes, we’re looking for you. 
Join our team! In this opportunity as a Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions Risk, you will be supporting business stakeholders in decision-making by providing them with timely and relevant information to maximize value and minimize the risk associated with mergers and acquisitions activities. 
 
About The Role 
This role provides focused risk management support on Thomson Reuters mergers, acquisitions, and integration activities. You will be responsible for partnering with functions across the organization to identify and manage risks related across the M&A lifecycle. Your duties will include conducting risk assessments during due diligence phases, leading risk workshops, and ensuring the M&A process aligns with the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework. Additionally, you will identify opportunities to improve decision-making through enhanced risk awareness and education. 
 

In this opportunity as Manager, Mergers & Acquisition Risk, you will:

• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments for M&A activities, including due diligence processes for potential acquisitions, mergers, and divestitures. Analyze financial, operational, and legal data to identify risks and opportunities. 

• Lead risk workshops, document risks in risk registers, and prepare reports summarizing key risks associated with acquisitions. Ensure these assessments include a detailed risk profile and are updated throughout the integration process of acquired companies. 

• Provide oversight and constructive challenge to ensure that risks across the various functions and segments are being effectively managed in alignment with established practices and risk appetite. 

• Identify and manage known issues during risk assessments, including developing mitigation strategies and tracking their resolution throughout the M&A process. 

• Develop and maintain effective and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts within and outside the organization. Provide guidance and support to business units on risk and compliance issues related to M&A transactions. 

• Ensure continuous training and development for team members and stakeholders on risk management principles and practices specific to M&A activities. 
   

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Manager, Mergers & Acquisition Risk, if your background includes:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in risk management, compliance, or a related field, including experience with Mergers & Acquisitions. 

• Proven track record of successfully managing risk and compliance activities in a corporate environment. 

• Experience in conducting due diligence and risk assessments for M&A transactions. 

• Bachelor's degree; A master's degree is a plus. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify and mitigate risks effectively. 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels. 

• Detail-oriented and highly organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. 

• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and risk management software/tools.

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What's in it For You?
You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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