Mergers & Acquisitions Senior Manager Job in Dublin, Dublin Ireland

Mergers Acquisitions Senior Manager

Permanent role.
Job Location: Dublin, Cork, Belfast
Salary: 70k-85k

Our client, a leading Big 4 professional services firm have an excellent opportunity for an experienced MA professional to join their MA Team.
This team has a wide range of major clients and advises on business reviews, acquisitions, disposals, MBO’s/MBI’s, financings, takeovers and mergers. In spite of unprecedented market conditions, the team has had a highly successful year completing a significant number of deals with high profile clients. Our client is seeking to build on this success and grow the origination and execution capacity of the team through the recruitment of an MA professional at the experienced Senior Executive/Associate Director level.

Technical skills requirements

Working with a Partner or Director, you will be leading the execution of transactions on a day-to-day basis:

• Negotiate with counterparts and their advisers
• Set and drive the transaction timetable
• Ensure quality on all client deliverables, lead the management of the firm's risk and control costs against budget
• Support new business development
• Develop deep sector expertise and assuming responsibility for the development of Ernst Young's franchise in those sectors
• Originate and deliver transaction ideas, identifying opportunities, opening and leveraging relationships
• Lead the development of pitch documents and taking a lead role in client pitches
• Develop your own business network with a view to increasing your origination capabilities over the medium term
• Play an important role in the growth and development of the whole team

Additional skills requirements

• Strong experience in a corporate finance environment, including experience playing a lead role in executing transactions
• Demonstrate confidence in client situations, gaining client acceptance and demonstrating value through advice and sector insight
• Committed to working to tight deadlines, practiced at thinking clearly under pressure and experienced at maintaining team morale during lengthy and challenging transactions
• Sound commercial judgment and an ability to generate creative solutions to problems and 'think on your feet'. Ability to identify potential deal opportunities
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrate strong numerical and financial skills and an understanding of financial statements
• Creative in the sourcing and use of information and able to make sensible assumptions where appropriate
• Extensive experience in building financial models and valuing businesses within challenging timescales
• Experience in valuing companies using various methodologies, mainly precedent transactions, traded comparable companies and DCF
• Counselling/coaching experience is desirable
• High standard of spoken and written English is a prerequisite

Client responsibilities

• Act as the main contact point for clients during the transaction process
• Liaise with and advise clients on transaction strategy including tactics, deal structuring and negotiation strategy, providing genuine sector and transaction insight and displaying deep understanding of the strategic rationale for transactions
• Ensure client deliverables are delivered to an exceptional standard on time, managing counterparts and other advisers to ensure transaction milestones are met

People responsibilities

• Provide leadership to junior team members producing Information Memoranda, financial models and other transaction documentation

Team leadership role

• Take ownership and responsibility for one or more team functions such as, training, people development, quality, finances etc

If you are interested in this role or would like to find out more about it, please call Michael O’Mahony of Lincoln Search Selection on 01 6610444 or email momahony@lincoln.ie