Consultant, M&A Value Creation

ERM is the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, with over 50 years of experience helping organizations navigate complex environmental, social, and governance challenges. We bring together a global community of experts to deliver meaningful impact for our clients and the planet.

Our Consulting Delivery Hub (CDH) in India is a critical part of ERM’s global consulting model enabling scalable, high-quality delivery across regions and service lines. CDH teams work in close partnership with regional consultants to support global client projects, providing specialist expertise, driving consistency, and enhancing delivery efficiency across our most important programmes.

As part of the Consulting Delivery Hub, you will collaborate with colleagues worldwide, contribute to complex sustainability projects, and play a key role in shaping the future of global consulting delivery.

Why this role matters?

As a Consultant - M&A Value Creation, you will support ERM’s global consulting delivery by integrating ESG factors into transaction analysis and investment decision-making. You will work within Mergers and Acquisition service line under Value Creation team, partnering with NA / EMEA regional stakeholders to turn complex and qualitative ESG concepts into actionable financial insights. This role is critical to ensure development and refinement of advanced financial models that incorporate ESG and sustainability metrics.

Key responsibilities

• Advanced Financial Models: Design, build, and refine complex financial models that seamlessly integrate ESG metrics and sustainability indicators to assess risk, value, and return in transaction scenarios.
• ESG Translation: Transform qualitative ESG and sustainability concepts into quantifiable parameters that can be integrated within traditional valuation frameworks.
• Data-Driven Insights: Develop actionable recommendations for clients by assessing how ESG elements influence financial performance and investment outcomes, tailored both to deal teams and CFOs of portfolio companies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with ERM advisory specialists and transaction teams to ensure a holistic approach in embedding sustainability into client business models.
• Thought Leadership: Stay abreast of emerging trends, and market innovations in ESG and sustainability, ensuring that your models reflect the most current industry practices.

Preferred skills & competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to convert qualitative ESG and sustainability insights into robust quantitative parameters.
• A proactive, self-driven professional comfortable working in an offshore, team-oriented environment.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Passionate about sustainability and committed to ensuring that ESG factors are precisely priced in financial evaluations.

What your impact is?

• Financial Quantification of ESG Levers.
• Identification of Value Creation / Value Protection Opportunities.
• Review of Business Case / Advanced Financial Models and Financial Statements.

What will you bring?

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or a related field. An advanced degree (MBA) or professional designation (CFA) is preferred.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in financial modelling and valuation analysis, ideally within investment banking, strategy consulting, or transaction advisory roles.
• Direct exposure to due diligence, exit readiness assessments, or private equity transactions is highly desirable.
• Expert-level proficiency in Excel and financial modelling tools, with a proven track record of building complex models.
• Background in financial modelling and valuation with a deep passion for sustainability (e.g. climate, nature, employees’ wellbeing, sustainable revenue.