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Manager - Transaction Services - Financial Due Diligence

Employer
PwC
Location
London
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
20 Sep 2019

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Job Details

A career in our Financial Due Diligence practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.

Our team assist organisations with both buy side and sell side due diligence. As part of our team, you’ll help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analysing and validating all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.


About the team

Our Transaction Services team in London has c.180 financial due diligence (FDD) specialists, supporting a wide variety of transactions in the UK and internationally. We advise both top and mid-tier, corporate and financial (private equity) clients, who invest in a range of assets, from smaller privately owned business to large household names.

Over the past year alone, the team has been involved in a number of landmark deals. Whilst a significant proportion of our work is local, we also support our clients internationally, working alongside our network firms in Europe and globally.

Our FDD team members are industry aligned and have deep experience and knowledge across the following industries

  • Financial Services,
  • Industrial Products and Services,
  • Technology, Media & Telecoms,
  • Healthcare & Pharma,
  • Retail, Consumer & Leisure,
  • Energy, Utilities, Mining & Infrastructure, and
  • Real Estate

The London FDD team is supported by a further 160 individuals who provide deals support across Valuations, SPA, Data & Analytics and Financial modelling, bringing technical expertise to complement our wider Deals offering.


About the role

Specifically, at this time we’re recruiting for Managers to join our team in the London.

The role will involve the following

  • Analysing financial and non-financial business information;
  • Identifying and understanding key drivers of a business and potential deal breakers (financial and non-financial);
  • Writing financial due diligence (buy-side, sell-side or refinancing) reports for our corporate, banking and private equity clients;
  • Sharing your experience and developing other team members through the deal process
  • Understanding the processes in due diligence work including dealing with risk management processes and procedures
  • Interaction with senior levels of Management, and exposure to business owners to understand areas such as historical and projected business performance, wider commercial issues, etc
  • Development of internal and external networks, and adopting a business development mindset
  • Whilst the role is based in London, travel may be required, which is dependent upon the client/ target’s location

Essential Skills & Experience

  • ACA/ICAS qualified (or equivalent)
  • Good business writing and Excel skills
  • Strong analytical skills and commercial awareness
  • A flexible working style
  • Interpersonal skills (lead teams, mentoring and developing staff, confident interacting with clients and management)
  • Strong communication skills (questioning and listening skills)

Desirable skills

  • Report writing skills
  • Passionate about client service
  • Able to adapt to change
  • Project manage assignments
  • Proactive with regard to self-development
  • Wide range of client experience
  • Due diligence experience
  • Leaders of the future - willingness to lead is a positive


Who we’re looking for

You will be a motivated and determined individual, with the commercial awareness, investigative mind and flair for detail that underpin sound advice. You’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, build positive relationships and meet clients often, so excellent interpersonal skills are also vital. You’ll also need to be flexible about where and how you work.

Equally important is your intellect, willingness to learn and ability to build relationships, while always making a positive impact with our clients and each other.

 

Deals

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.


The skills we look for in future employees

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, ‘The PwC Professional’ and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.


Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Company

Your career is just that; yours. You choose it. You live it. You make it happen. To get the best from it, you need the best opportunities. That’s why opportunities are at the heart of a career with us. Opportunities to grow as an individual, to build lasting relationships and make an impact in a place where people, quality and value mean everything.

What we do

We’re one of the world’s leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.

Where you could work:

  • Assurance
  • Consulting
  • Financial Advisory/ Deals
  • Human Resource Services
  • Internal Firm Services
  • PwC Legal LLP
  • Tax
  • Technology

As a leading professional services network we’re confident we can offer outstanding training and development opportunities, exposure to multi-disciplinary teams, and support from industry-leading experts. Discover where your talent could take you and join an employer that focused on helping you reach your full potential.

Take the opportunity of a lifetime

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