HR M&A Integration Lead - Americas

Job Description

Job Description

Description :

Join the Access family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of love work, love life’ has been central to our success and we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day.

What are we all about?

The Access Group is a leading provider of business management software to small and mid-sized organizations in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia Pacific.

A dynamic and innovative B2B SaaS company, Access is dedicated to delivering software solutions that help our more than 100,000 customers across commercial and non-profit sectors become more productive and efficient.

With 20+ years of uninterrupted growth, we are seeking an HR M&A Integration Lead to support our growing Americas region.

About You :

The Employee Success M&A team is looking for someone who is passionate about creating a best-in-class experience for acquired employees.

You will have an eye for detail and can manage multiple acquisitions at once while actively seeking out ways to better improve our M&A approach.

You can influence others at all levels of seniority and bring your whole self to work. You are someone who rolls their sleeves up and gets work done and thinks two steps ahead.

You will report into the Global Head of Employee Success, M&A and the Head of ES, Americas and will work collaboratively across the M&A ecosystem and Employee Success community to make sure employees are successfully integrated into Access systems, processes and culture.

We are on a journey in making Access an acquirer of choice and would love to hear from folks up for the challenge!

Though this is a fully remote position, candidates must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones to ensure alignment with our core business hours and effective collaboration with our team.

Day-to-day, you will :

• Lead comprehensive internal due diligence process in collaboration with Head of Employee Success (ES), M&A for all deals in the Americas.
• Create, execute and keep others accountable to ES integration plans across several acquisitions at once.
• Lead job mapping of acquired roles into Access job architecture including job evaluation and cost analysis.
• Lead contract harmonization and alignment process across all acquired workforce.
• Lead and advise on complex ER issues.
• Lead headcount savings and synergy realization contributing to the deal Value Creation Plan (VCP).
• Collaborate across geographies, business units and functions to ensure smooth transition for all M&A integration activities, leveraging ES M&A subject matter expertise.
• Mentor team members to help prioritize, flex and pivot workload dependent upon deal volume and integration timelines.
• Drive excellent employee experience by creating, managing, and executing simple communications and change management initiatives.
• Translate strategy into milestone-based efforts and escalates relevant issues to leadership.
• Lead employee briefing and training sessions to onboard acquired employees into Access culture and ways of working.
• Guide senior leadership (Access and acquired) along integration journey to ensure alignment in strategy and key messages and behaviors.
• Partners with ES M&A Regional Integration Leads to align integration approach for transactional and transformational deals.
• Create credibility and builds trust across functional integration leads, keeping team updated on key ES dependencies and risks to integration.

Requirements :

Required skills and experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, or other relevant concentration.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in HR M&A integration activities, with advanced knowledge of M&A deal life cycle and the wide range of ES principles, processes, and technology.
• Strong communication, negotiation, problem solving and relationship building skills.
• Experience working cross-functionally, understanding complex matrixed organizations, and implementing best-in-class integration practices.
• Excellent program management skills, executing against tight timelines.
• Ability to perform in an ambiguous, face paced tech environment and make transformative decisions quickly and against competing priorities.
• Ability to influence, problem solve and successfully collaborate and communicate across all levels.
• Ability to flux between pragmatic and strategic thinking, considering a variety of external and changing factors.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of application of employment law.

What does Access offer you?

We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously and we will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference.

This is a fixed-term, 12-month, position. The base salary is $110,000 - $140,000 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location.

On top of a competitive salary, if you join our team, you’ll receive the following benefits and much, much more :

• 22 days paid time off
• 11 company paid holidays
• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• 5% 401(k) company match
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents
• Flexible work environment

At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work and Love Life. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves.

We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun!

What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family!

Love Work. Love Life. Be You.