Assistant Director, Transaction Services, Financial Advisory

at  Deloitte

REQ #

16290
Job description

CONNECT TO YOUR SKILLS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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.

Essential

• An ACA qualification or equivalent experience
• Exceptional academic background or equivalent experience
• High level report writing and reviewing skills, with an appropriate focus on attention to details, conciseness and risk management
• Previous experience with financial due diligence and transaction services
• Good problem solving and analytical skills
• Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders
• Experience in leading business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales
• Experience in building and managing client relationships
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Great presentation skills
• Full travel mobility
• Flexibility for international travel

Desirable:

• Experience of corporate and private equity transactions
• Fluency in a major European foreign language would be an advantage
• Strong excel skills - quick and accurate manipulation of data
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
• Strong client focus - be focussed on high quality service

• Quickly develop an understanding of the target business and its drivers
• Interpretation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
• Review and analysis of historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets
• Review and analysis of projections, and underlying assumptions
• Review of the adequacy of working capital facilities, including consideration of financing limits, term and covenants
• Evaluation of potential synergies
• Reporting of potential key issues for our client including identification of risk or price affecting considerations
• Review of sale and purchase agreement and correlating findings of due diligence process therein
• Review of financial structures and associated credit agreements
• Leading and developing service offerings and evolving propositions to drive practice growth
• Leading training and developing team members in role
• Managing diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contributio