Maria Bunch

Maria is a Deloitte & Touche LLP principal leading M&A Services for global organizations pursuing a variety of transactions including acquisitions, divestments, and IPOs. Maria brings deep domain experience in the areas of Finance, Accounting, and Risk and Controls, as well as, nearly 20 years of experience guiding complex, global, and multi-billion deal value transactions.

Maria’s focus in the M&A lifecycle spans from planning an issue-free Day 1 (deal closing), guiding the preparation of the closing/opening balance sheet, establishing a process to account for the transaction, aligning accounting policies, assessing reporting segments, defining the Finance integration or separation strategy, planning and execution to conduct the post-merger financial close, and designing the Finance operating model post-deal. Maria has also served in subject matter advisor roles such as: M&A labs, post-merger assessments, M&A finance & controllership Playbook design, and finance modernization projects triggered by the needs to the M&A transaction.