Assistant Manager - Finance Transformation - M&A

Proposed designation: Assistant Manager

Role type: Individual contributor

Reporting to: Manager/Associate Director

Geo to be supported: UK

Work timings: Normal Shift

Roles & responsibilities:

• You will gain exposure to the high pressure, fast-paced world of transactions through delivering operational finance Integration and Separation (I&S) projects. Your role on a project will include:
• Assisting CFOs and finance stakeholders on the buy-side or sell-side to plan and execute changes in the finance organization as required by the transaction. This will be across the entire deal life-cycle from pre-deal to post-deal phases of the transaction.
• You will work across a variety of industry sectors and locations with clients of varying size and complexity. We also work with other advisory firms (banks, law firms, technology companies, and other accounting firms) on deals, as required, which depends on the nature and scope of the engagement.
• Providing day to day support to project office activities, and lead PMO activities on small to medium sized engagements.
• Lead the support to the finance work streams on I&S projects, supporting client work stream leads to fulfil their work stream objectives.
• Ownership and maintenance of engagement financials and on larger projects oversee the work of more junior staff.
• Contribution of content for sections of reports/deliverables on I&S projects.
• When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in preparation of proposal and business development initiative.

Educational qualifications:

• MBA/CA/ACCA/CIMA - Accounting equivalent degree in a related field from an accredited college/university

Work experience:

• 5 - 7 years of total work experience

Mandatory technical & functional skills:

• Familiar with the deal lifecycle from pre-signing to post-close operations; Experience assisting with M&A transactions will be a huge plus.
• Experience with project management, process analysis, process redesign, financial systems, analytics, or financial analysis required.
• Understand the finance and accounting function and experience with one or more F&A sub-functions including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Record to Report, FP&A, Treasury, Tax, and Internal Audit is preferred.
• Familiar with transition service agreements (TSAs), charts of accounts, and shared services.
• A good awareness of the component parts of a finance function and the typical organizational structure, processes, controls, systems and performance metrics/ benchmarks.
• A keen interest in merger and acquisitions, with financial and commercial awareness, Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills are essential.

Preferred technical & functional skills:

• International work experience preferred.
• Presentation (oral and written).
• Good client relationship skills.
• Analysis, problem solving and Report writing.
• Strong team player - we pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate personal impact, flexibility, drive and commitment.
• A desire to broaden your current skillset and an embrace the opportunity to work at client sites with a relatively high level of autonomy.
• You should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions.

Key behavioral attributes/requirements:

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate personal impact, flexibility, drive and commitment.
• Strong team player - we pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.

Other information:

• Interview process: 3 - 4 line interviews.
• Does the job role involve travelling: No