Avp, Value Capture

**AVP, Value Creation ( Corporate Finance)**

**Cognizant**

Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is one of the world’s leading professional services companies. Our industry-based, consultative approach helps companies evolve into modern businesses. By leading clients in leveraging technologies essential to modern enterprises such as IoT, artificial intelligence, digital engineering and cloud, we enable new business and operating models that unlock new value in markets around the world. Cognizant’s unwavering focus on our clients is led by over 330,000 associates, who deliver services and solutions tailored to specific industries and the unique needs of the organizations we serve.

We were most recently named one of the World’s Best Employers 2024 by Forbes. This award reinforces Cognizant’s reputation for providing excellent opportunities for its employees and being among the best places to work in the world.

**The team**

Corporate Development is a world class global team responsible for Cognizant’s M&A strategy and inorganic growth mandates, in tandem with our organic global growth goals. Members of the Corporate Development team work closely with multiple business units and corporate functions within Cognizant to identify, evaluate and integrate acquisition, investment and partnership opportunities.

Over the past 6 years we have completed over 30 acquisitions globally deploying in excess of $7 billion and Cognizant is publicly committed to making further acquisitions that strengthen our position in strategically important markets, industries and service offerings.

Corporate Development is expanding our global presence by establishing a new India based team with all our sub-teams represented but in particular the strategic commercial due diligence (SDD), value capture (VC) and post-merger integration (PMI) capabilities.
- **Key Responsibilities**
- As a key leader within the global Value Capture (VC) team for Corporate Development, you will lead relevant activities across the M&A lifecycle
- Pre-deal you will [work on/lead] the definition of post close value capture opportunities including framing of:

- Post-deal joint client proposition, including value drivers and integration principles aligned with the acquisition business case
- Targeted revenue synergy opportunities
- End state organizational operating model that is required to support the pursuit of revenue synergies
- Cost synergy potential and a development of phased plan to deliver these
- You will collaborate closely with sponsoring BU leaders in both the pre and post-deal setting but become closely engaged with delivery, operations and corporate functional leaders post-close in delivering the value capture plan
- Post-close, the VC team has the following roles:

- Partner with sponsoring business units to ensure commercial momentum and in driving accountability around pursuit of value capture plan identified in diligence and tracking progress thereof
- Guide Cognizant and acquired integration teams on Cognizant’s Integration thesis
- Identify roles, responsibilities and membership of the integration governance model; setup and facilitate operating and executive committees including scheduling, agenda and content
- Ensure early definition of a high-level Target Operating Model with stakeholder alignment
- Collaborate and extensively work with post-merger integration team within corporate development in the pursuit and delivery of the value capture plan
- The role whilst based out of India will support our global M&A pursuits

**Additional responsibilities include**:

- Assist in preparing for and where relevant participate in Executive Leadership / Investment Committee / Board of Directors deliverables and communications
- Collaborate extensively with SDD and sourcing & execution teams to ensure consistently high quality output in support of our business partners
- Continuously improve and develop the playbook on M&A value capture approach
- **Mandatory Capabilities/Skills /Years of Experience**
- **Domain/Industry (mandatory) - **Business services, Technology services or other professional services experience essential
- **Functional capabilities (mandatory) -** Prior experience in business strategy, revenue and cost synergy identification/planning/tracking, and commercial due diligence with a top-tier consulting firm or from another multi-geo global organization
- **Strategy Capabilities (mandatory) - **Extensive experience in formulating and executing strategies for Growth, Market Expansion, Go-to-Market and the use of M&A to enable these
- **Technology Skills (mandatory) -** Proficient with Excel and preparing high impact presentations and reporting decks in PowerPoint
- **Years of Experience (mandatory) -** 15+ years of relevant experience
- **Preferred Capabilities/Skills/Years of Experience**
- Value creation and M&A business case execution thought leader
- BA or BS Economics, Finance, or other relevant business degree
- MBA preferre