Assistant Director, Transaction Services
This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's growing Corporate Finance Transaction Services team. Working on high profile assignments with some of the best in the field, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, with a mix of both corporate and private equity transactions, within a highly commercial, client focussed environment.
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.
Our core services include acquisition and vendor due diligence, bid defence and support and reporting accountant services for capital market transactions. Typically, we work within a wider deal team which accesses the firm's vast range of specialist expertise including commercial and operational due diligence, sale and purchase agreement negotiation, real estate, treasury, pensions, modelling, fund placement, merger integration, IT and business intelligence. We also often work on international assignments involving cross-border as well as cross-service line teams requiring our people to build wide networks across both the UK and International firm.
The Assistant Director role will include the following activities:
- Quickly developing 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
Assistant Directors will have responsibility for:
- Project management of mid to large scale due diligence/reporting accountant assignments including: client interface, managing an assignment team, managing project risk issues and monitoring costs/recovery.
- Production of quality deliverables (usually detailed written reports) within agreed timescales, briefing Partner/Director/Assistant Director accordingly. On larger deals this will involve responsibility for the production of discrete report sections
- Participate in various marketing initiatives and practice development activities (e.g. client presentations, key client account, industry, geography, and product programmes, develop and maintain own network of contacts and to display an awareness of sales opportunities).
The role may involve a significant amount of travel within the U.K. and overseas, and will require the flexibility to meet peaks of work inherent in the cycle of a deal.
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