M&A Integration Project Manager

Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. At Cherry Bekaert we create shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise. We approach today’s toughest business challenges with a client-first mindset, working together to create exceptional value. We are all committed to making a difference for our people, our clients, our community, and our professions. To meet this commitment, Cherry Bekaert will provide you with the space to pursue growth and development opportunities that will guide and support you at each stage of your personal and professional journey.

Cherry Bekaert’s Firm Strategy team is seeking an experienced M&A Integration Project Manager to help shape the future of our firm through successful acquisitions. In this position you will play a critical role leading enterprise-level initiatives from diligence through post-close integration, influencing stakeholders and accelerating outcomes by bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to cross-functional teams. This highly visible role will report to the head of our Integration Center of Excellence and offers the opportunity to work directly with executive leadership while driving complex integrations that deliver measurable business impact. This position will support remote work as a member of our nationally distributed team; however, candidates must capable of operating within Eastern Time business hours.

As a M&A Integration Project Manager, you will:

• Lead and own end-to-end M&A integration project plans, including milestones, timelines, dependencies, and deliverables from diligence through post-close stabilization

• Drive execution across distributed, cross-functional teams—ensuring accountability, follow-through, and progress against critical milestones in a remote environment

• Proactively identify risks, issues, and delays, and escalate with clear recommendations to keep integrations on track

• Establish and manage integration governance, including virtual workstream check-ins, executive updates, and decision forums

• Coordinate integration activities across Finance, Legal, IT, Operations, People & Culture, Client Service, and Go-to-Market teams

• Deliver clear, concise, executive-ready reporting on progress, risks, and upcoming milestones

• Partner closely with senior leadership to align priorities, remove blockers, and ensure successful integration outcomes

What you bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a business discipline

• PMP certification or equivalent experience preferred

• 10+ years of experience within a professional services firm including a minimum of 5+ years of experience leading complex M&A integration or large-scale transformation initiatives

• Strong project management expertise, including planning, execution, risk mitigation, and stakeholder coordination

• Ability to manage complex, cross-functional workstreams across remote teams with competing priorities and tight timelines

• Demonstrated ability to influence, drive accountability, and achieve outcomes without direct authority

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage executive and cross-functional audiences in virtual settings

• Experience building dashboards, reporting, and executive updates that translate data into actionable insights

• Proficiency with project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet) and Microsoft 365 collaboration platforms

• Ability to bring structure to ambiguity and translate evolving inputs into clear, actionable plans

What you can expect from us:

• Our shared values that foster inclusion and belonging including uncompromising integrity, collaboration, trust, and mutual respect

• The opportunity to innovate and do work that motivates and engages you

• A collaborative environment focused on enabling you to further your career growth and continuous professional development

• Competitive compensation and a total rewards package that focuses on all aspects of your wellbeing

• Flexibility to do impactful work and the time to enjoy your life outside of work

• Opportunities to connect and learn from professionals from different backgrounds and with different cultures

Benefits Information:

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. The salary range for this position is included below. Individual salaries within this range are determined by a variety of factors including but not limited to the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, education, knowledge, skills, and geographic location. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans; Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

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About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit https://www.cbh.com/disclosure/ 

Cherry Bekaert provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. https://careers.cbh.com/legal-disclosures/ contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. 

This role is expected to accept applications for at least five calendar days and may continue to be posted until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.   

Candidates must demonstrate eligibility to work in the United States. Cherry Bekaert will not provide work sponsorship for this position. 

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