Associate - Financial Due Diligence

Skills and attributes for success:

• Understanding of the business, competitive positioning, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges etc. of the target company
• Analysed historic and current financial information
• Analysed projections and assumptions used for the same
• Identified of deal issues, assessing their impact on the transaction (valuation etc.) and advising on ways to address the issues
• Conducted analysis of transaction risks and ways to mitigate them
• Understanding transaction structure and basis the same advising on structuring issues
• High team orientation
• Good communication both written and oral (including report writing)
• Strong analytical skills are a must
• Good at building relationships with clients
• Due diligence experience as part of M&A team in industry or Big 3 CA firms.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Chartered Accountant with good academic background and 1-2 years of relevant post qualification work experience

Ideally you'll also have:

• Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.
• Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)
• Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility.