Senior Associate - Financial Due Diligence - London & South East

About the team

Apply your existing business experience within the deals environment. Working in a multidisciplinary team alongside specialists from around the Firm, you will develop insights and experience across the business spectrum and the transaction advisory service offerings. As well as improving your analytical and business advisory skills, and working with a number of senior internal and external stakeholders, you’ll gain invaluable exposure to key business decisions.

Deals focuses on businesses that are growing, changing, restructuring, or businesses in crisis. Our client base is wide, including government offices, private equity houses, family businesses and multinational conglomerates.

Transaction Services supports private equity firms, investment funds and corporate clients through mergers, acquisitions and disposals worth up to £10 billion. Building relationships with high-profile businesses, we advise at all stages of a deal, from strategic inception through to due diligence.

About the role

As a Senior Associate you’ll work on transactions with a diverse range of clients. It’s an opportunity to build deals experience, including analysis of financial business information, as well as wider deals execution know-how. In particular you’ll get to grips with the processes of due diligence, including the identification of value drivers and detailed financial analysis. You’ll also develop skills in writing due diligence reports for our corporate and private equity clients.

Working as part of a dynamic team, this specific position is available for our Embankment Place, Reading or Watford office.

Essential skills and experience

• Industry experience in the following: Financial Services, Energy Utilities Mining and Infrastructure, Retail Consumer and Leisure, Industrial Products, Telecoms Media Technology & Health and Pharma

• ACA qualified or equivalent

• 2:1 degree minimum

• Wide range of client experience and a passion for client service

• Good business-writing and Excel skills

• Strong analytical skills

• Flexible working style with good team-working skills

• Ability to deliver under pressure

• Strong communication skills (both questioning and listening)

Desirable skills and experience:

• Experience of writing reports

• Able to adapt to change

• Some experience of due diligence

• Confidence when interacting with clients and management

• Experience working across multiple industries

• Active in managing your own development

• Willingness to lead

Please include a cover letter with your application

Our Deals business is an exciting, fast-paced and an ever-growing business that focuses on deals and crisis situations for our clients. Collectively, we deal with the types of situations you hear about regularly in the news and we provide support, insight and analysis to the management, shareholders and financiers of business.

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