HR (People) M&A Lead

📋 Description

• Own the people's workstream of Payward's M&A activity end to end — from first-pass diligence
• Build and own PX due diligence questionnaire (DDQ) including data requests and questions to the
• Crunch high-volume, low-structure data rooms — employment contracts, org data, comp and equity
• Filter signal from noise: translate hundreds of findings into a short list of flags scored against
• Lead the drafting of the people-side deal mechanics: comp modelling, equity treatment, retention
• Sit in the room with corp dev, legal, finance and PX leadership — leverage SMEs and push

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years across M&A people/HR diligence, integration, total rewards, or corp dev — with
• A track record of running multi-diligence processes in tandem, to a hard timeline: knowing what to
• Strong analytical depth — comfortable modelling comp, equity, dilution, retention cost and
• Global/cross-border deal experience with multi-jurisdiction and/or regulatory change of control
• Demonstrated use of AI and automation to review large document volumes, with judgement about where
• Ability to make and communicate risk calls on incomplete information, and to state a position