Company Overview
Blue Ops is a leading M&A consulting firm specializing in financial due diligence, value creation, and analytics. With a team of 70+ professionals across four offices, we support 120+ transactions annually for middle-market private equity firms, investment banks, and portfolio companies.
Role Overview
Blue Ops is seeking an M&A Manager to lead financial due diligence and transaction execution across multiple private equity and middle-market M&A engagements. This client-facing role serves as the day-to-day deal lead, owning engagement execution from LOI through close and into post-transaction execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements
- Prepare and review quality of earnings, EBITDA, working capital, and transaction models
- Manage multiple concurrent engagements and ensure timely, high-quality delivery
- Serve as the primary client contact for private equity sponsors, bankers, and management teams
- Supervise, mentor, and develop Associates and Analysts
- Present diligence findings and transaction insights to clients
- Support post-close integration and value creation initiatives
Qualifications
- 5–10 years of experience in transaction advisory, financial due diligence, investment banking, or corporate development
- Strong technical accounting and financial analysis skills
- Experience leading client-facing diligence engagements
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities
- CPA, CFA, or similar credentials preferred
Compensation & Benefits
Blue Ops offers a competitive base salary, performance-based bonus, comprehensive benefits package, and a clear path for advancement within a growing M&A platform.
Skills Required
- 5-10 years of experience in transaction advisory, financial due diligence, investment banking, or corporate development
- Strong technical accounting and financial analysis skills
- Experience leading client-facing diligence engagements
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling capabilities
- CPA, CFA, or similar credentials
What We Do
At Xerxes Global, we believe in bold. We get excited about the BIG ideas – the ones that disrupt or break open an industry to change everything. We develop innovative new ways to find insights that shake business to its foundations, new approaches to management that dare to ask “what if you could?,” and new ways of presenting information to unite industries like never before. Xerxes Global unites different business that share a common goal: to never stop Getting Better. By working together, our businesses share resources, experts and knowledge in order grow in Bolder directions than they could have on their own. These are the companies that come together to make Xerxes Global. Individually, each of Xerxes Global’s companies are innovative industry leaders. Together, we’re gamechangers. Our Portfolio of Brands: EBM Software: Making it Easier to Be Better Catalyst: FP&A Cloud Diligent: Where M&A Happens Blue Ops - Private Equity's Most Trusted Partner ARC - Association for Retail & Consumer Professionals Studio X - is a fully integrated video production suite located close to the heart of Minneapolis, MN. Servicing agencies, production companies & brands, Studio X works across all media channels & platforms to help our clients think bolder and be better.
