Position Summary:
Our team provides clients with dedicated support for a transaction or potential transaction. Typically, this involves the investigation of the target from a variety of perspectives to ensure significant value items, risks and other matters have been identified and considered by our client and assisting them in making an informed decision regarding the transaction.
Key Responsibilities:
- Interpretation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
- Leading and developing service offerings and evolving propositions to drive practice growth
- Review and analysis of historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets
- Leading training and developing team members in role
- Review and analysis of projections, and underlying assumptions
- Review of sale and purchase agreement and correlating findings of due diligence process therein
- Evaluation of potential synergies
- Review of the adequacy of working capital facilities, including consideration of financing limits, term and covenants
- Quickly develop an understanding of the target business and its drivers
- Review of financial structures and associated credit agreements
- Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
- Reporting of potential key issues for our client including identification of risk or price affecting considerations
Required Education & Experience:
- Experience in leading business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales
- Great presentation skills
- Exceptional academic background or equivalent experience
- An ACA qualification or equivalent experience
- Flexibility for some international travel
- Fluency in a major European foreign language would be an advantage
- Experience of corporate and private equity transactions
- Strong excel skills – quick and accurate manipulation of data
- Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders
- Excellent communication skills both written and oral
- Good problem solving and analytical skills
- Previous experience within financial due diligence and transaction services
- Experience in building and managing client relationships
- High level report writing and reviewing skills, with an appropriate focus on attention to detail, conciseness and risk management