Advice on how to break into an M&A related role, coming from B4 and more back office work experience? TIA!

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There’s plenty of M&A work in the big 4. What kind do you want to be part of? Strategy side? Due diligence? Integration/divestments?

I have more of a finance and modeling background so not sure which would suite best skill wise. Strategy is appealing as I would like my work to feel like it has an impact contrary to back office roles.

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There’s both front and back office M&A work (e.g., CDD vs Ops DD). If anything, back office deals is where a lot of the synergies are.

Have you tried looking within your own firm? I’m pretty sure every big four has both M&A strategy and execution

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