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Position Overview

The Senior M&A Applications Specialist plays a critical role in supporting the end-to-end lifecycle of application discovery, assessment, rationalization, and migration activities during mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. This individual will serve as a subject matter expert in corporate business systems—such as Finance, HR, Legal, and Procurement platforms—ensuring seamless integration, optimization, and alignment to enterprise standards.

The ideal candidate is analytical, organized, and adept at working across functional, technical, and business teams to deliver efficient transitions that protect business continuity and maximize value realization from M&A activities.

Your Impact

Key Responsibilities

1. Discovery & Assessment

+ Lead the application discovery process for acquired or divested entities, focusing on corporate business systems (ERP, HCM, CRM, Procurement, Legal, etc.).

+ Conduct detailed application inventories, dependency mapping, and integration assessments.

+ Evaluate system usage, licensing, data flows, and business criticality.

+ Partner with functional leads and IT SMEs to document key findings and risks.

2. Rationalization & Strategy

+ Analyze overlap between target and existing enterprise applications to identify consolidation, retirement, or migration opportunities.

+ Develop rationalization recommendations aligned with enterprise architecture, cost, and risk considerations.

+ Support creation of the M&A Application Integration Playbook, defining best practices and templates for recurring M&A engagements.

3. Migration & Execution

+ Collaborate with technical teams to execute data migration, configuration, and access provisioning activities.

+ Validate successful migration outcomes and assist in cutover and stabilization support.

4. Governance & Reporting

+ Ensure all activities comply with IT and security governance, data protection, and licensing policies.

+ Maintain documentation, decision logs, and status dashboards for M&A integration projects.

+ Provide periodic updates to IT leadership and M&A PMO on progress, issues, and mitigation plans.

5. Continuous Improvement

+ Contribute to building reusable frameworks, tools, and templates for M&A application processes.

+ Capture lessons learned and refine future M&A playbooks to accelerate future integrations.

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

+ 7+ years of experience in enterprise application management, business systems analysis, or IT integration roles.

+ Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities to evaluate system overlaps and integration risks.

+ Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to align technical and business priorities.

+ Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams in high-pressure, time-sensitive environments.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.