Corporate Finance Assistant Manager

I have an opportunity for a Corporate Finance qualified candidate looking for the next opportunity in their career. This opportunity is with a large regional firm who are growing significantly.

Client Details

My client is a Top 30 accountancy firm with over 300 employees.

Delivering advisory and accountancy services to the SME market place in London and East Anglia. A key department in the firm is Strategic Corporate Finance (SCF); this team delivers research strategy, fund-raising and M&A consulting services. The department is around 15 people strong and has plans to grow significantly over the next 5 years.

Description

• Building financial models for growth, exit and acquisition
• Valuations: The ideal candidate will have good knowledge of the different valuation methods, have the potential to be trained in how to craft a valuation report, and have a demonstrable commercial eye that understands what drives value in an organisation.
• Due Diligence assignments: The team are often mandated by acquirers and banks to evaluate the financial strength, robustness and future of a target company given a certain set of strategic goals/transaction purpose.
• Supporting transactions and strategic planning: The individual will often be part of seeing major strategic decisions emerge from the very start and have an opportunity to help design the life cycle of a business.
• This will be a client facing role.

Profile

• Resilient and able to work well in a team environment where providing and then quickly acting on positive and constructive feedback is a necessity.
• Handling multiple complex projects simultaneously, for different managers/partners, in an environment where client situations evolve quickly and expectations adjust.
• A good team player.
• Empathy with the team and sensitivity regarding how to communicate and help each other
• Critical thinking skills / scepticism balanced with commercially and an understanding of what drives growth.
• Confidence in their own ability and accounting/finance knowledge.
• Confident to ask material questions of clients/targets in a professional manner.
• ACCA/ACA qualified

Job Offer

- Competitive salary

- Progression

- Further opportunity to study