Assistant Vice President - Financial Due Diligence

Your key responsibilities

Client Management:

- Lead role in execution of client service

Networking & Marketing:

- Create and manage good independent relationships with clients

- Expand opportunities with existing clients, identify and act on referrals

- Build broad networks within the firm locally and internationally

- Lead and coordinate the planning and management of assignments, with guidance from the engagement partner

Risk Management:

- Ensure compliance with risk management strategies, plans and activities

- Take on progressively greater risk management responsibility for high risk issues

- Be able to proactively resolve (with Partner support) risk issues in delivering service to clients

Knowledge Management:

- Strong contribution to knowledge sharing efforts, review and continually improve processes so that the team and firm capture and leverage knowledge

People Management:

- Build a strong team and be a strong role model, mentor and coach

- Assist in resolving people issues

- Assist in recruiting activities for the overall practice, including lateral & campus hiring

Skills and attributes for success:

- Understanding of the business, competitive positioning, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges etc. of the target company

- Analysed historic and current financial information

- Analysed projections and assumptions used for the same

- Understanding of business performance measures - Margins, EBITDA, working capital etc. required for FDD. Adequate reasons for movements and change in contribution margins with reference to business and items impacting financial statements.

- Identified of deal issues, assessing their impact on the transaction (valuation etc.) and advising on ways to address the issues

- Conducted analysis of transaction risks and ways to mitigate them

- Understanding transaction structure and basis it advised on structuring issues

- Strong Analytical Skills

- Excellent written and oral communication skills

- Project management/time management

- Staff management and development/leadership abilities

- Business development

- High initiative and drive

- Maturity and ability to handle pressure

- High team orientation

- Professional appearance and poise

- Due diligence experience as part of M&A team in industry or Big 3 CA firms or been a part of the audit and assurance practice of Big 4 CA firms

To qualify for the role you must have: Chartered Accountant with good academic background with 5-9 years of relevant postqualification experience