Associate, Global Transaction Analytics - Global Capability Center

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About A&M, Global Capability Center
A&M is now venturing into setting up a high-quality global capability center in India. The capability center will have dedicated centers of expertise which will work with A&M leadership across multiple business units and geographies to enable efficient service delivery to A&M clients. While this unique journey has been initiated, the firm is on a look out for building strong capable team for the center. Our center is expanding rapidly and we already have 350+ people onboard.
What is Global Transaction Advisory Group (TAG)
A&Ms Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) has an exciting entrepreneurial opportunity to join a budding global capability center team in India and work with the teams across Americas, EMEA and APAC. A&M TAG is seeking an associate to bring their energy, passion, and expertise to help our clients get the answers they need to get the deal done. We provide private equity and corporate clients buy side and sell side financial accounting due diligence. TAG professionals actively engage in assessing a targets quality of earning, analyzing cash flows, reviewing working capital, identifying key business drivers, reviewing forecasts, and conducting comprehensive discussions with management and their advisors.
What is Global Transaction Analytics
A&Ms Global Transaction Analytics (GTA) practice, within our Transaction Advisory Group, has an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing team in New York, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Miami, Nashville, Los Angeles and San Francisco. We are seeking a Director to bring their energy, passion, and expertise to help our clients get the answers they need to get the deal done across the investment lifecycle from pre-deal to post-deal analysis. A&M GTA provides data analytics services to clients to uncover maximum actionable insights to support their M&A, divestment and investment strategy. GTA is a global team which leverages market leading technology, advanced analytics capabilities, and A&Ms operational, functional and industry expertise to drive relevant business insights. Our global team provides analytics as a service to private equity and corporates across the transaction lifecycle.
What will you be doing
As an Associate in our GTA practice, you will have the opportunity to work with our highly motivated and effective team of professionals on a variety of interesting projects across different industries including but not limited to manufacturing, distribution, consumer, retail, restaurants, business and industrial services as well as healthcare, software & technology, energy and financial services. You will add value to our clients by offering data-enabled business, financial, and operational transparency during pre-acquisition due diligence or post-acquisitions performance improvement projects.
Considering the pace of targeted growth, we are keen to find people who are entrepreneurial, driven by a passion to drive significant growth (people who can think in multiples of growth rather than percentages), are comfortable with ambiguity, will roll up the sleeves and be hands on to get things done and can be independent requiring limited cover.
Key responsibilities:

• Assist with numerous client engagements
  
• Extract insights from data sets and trends by utilizing different tools and techniques
• Effectively facilitate day-to-day client interaction and relationships
• Work cohesively and collaboratively across stakeholders
• Counsel and mentor junior members of the team and continue to develop the teams technical acumen
  

Qualifications/ Ideal Experience

• A minimum of 2-3 years of experience in data analytics or transaction services
• Buy-side/vendor due diligence experience across industries preferred
• Understanding of M&A / PE investment lifecycle preferred
• Bachelors or masters degree in accounting, Business Administration, Statistics, Information Systems or a related field
• Understanding of data extraction, manipulation, analytics and visualization approaches
• Strong technical background with hands-on data analytics experience

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• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, relational databases/SOL querying, Alteryx, business intelligence/visualization (Tableau preferred), big data and machine learning concepts
• Ability to leverage business intelligence software
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts in a through yet concise manner
• Exceptional project management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Flexibility to work as both a team member in a collaborative setting and as an individual contributor
• Ability to thrive and be effective in fast-paced settings
  

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