Assistant Director - Operational Transaction Services

Assistant Director

Post Merger Integration experience highly preferred

Reporting to: Associate Director

The main objective is to achieve business growth by developing and maintaining strong working relationships with key business decision-makers, informing them of our scope of services and communicating how these services benefit their organizations.

Key responsibilities:

- Work on client engagement teams executing Operational Transaction Services which support key decision makers in developing and executing strategies for transactions.

- Assess the client's state of readiness with respect to people, resources, planning, data collection and strategy, while identifying high-risk areas, unidentified issues and areas for overall improvement.

- Demonstrate excellent skills in project execution, including synergy assessment, problem-solving, and facilitation.

- Assist with the execution of the integration/divestiture plan while working to constantly identify areas for improvement, including resolving integration/divestiture issues.

- Be responsible for creating work products that document the engagement procedures performed against objectives.

- Maintain relationships with client and firm's personnel at appropriate levels.

- Effectively participate on teams with diverse skills and backgrounds, while staying abreast of current business and industry trends relevant to the client's business.

- Supervise, coach, and mentor team members at the junior level.

- Demonstrate strong transaction knowledge in a particular industry (e.g., manufacturing, life sciences, consumer product goods, industrial products, technology, retail, etc.)

- Assist in business development activities including preparing presentations for pursuit meetings with clients to help sell advisory services.

Specific responsibilities:

- Data gathering, process analysis and improvement, ownership and support of team deliverables, basic project and stream management, experience of working in multi-disciplined teams, developing knowledge of various sectors and identification and development of sell-on opportunities.

- Support of the team's sales and market development agenda.

- Develop and maintain monthly actual/forecast variance report, with cause of change.

- Identify leading practices that can be implemented with clients. Automate existing processes.

- Develop holistic business insights from consumer sales and internal data sources.

- Create tools or systems, including databases and spreadsheets, to improve financial data analysis and reporting.

- Assist in preparation of executive presentations

Qualifications:

- Education: MBA from Tier 1 or 2 Indian or major international schools (IIM, ISB) or professional accounting qualification e.g. ICAI, ACCA, AICPA, CIPFA, CIMA, CFA 10 plus years working experience