Assistant Vice President/Manager - Financial Due diligence - Big4 - CA

Assistant Vice President/Manager - FDD - India Practice - Big4

We are Hiring for One of the Big Four for Financial Due diligence team for Deal Advisory

Function : Transaction Service - Financial Due diligence, Deal Advisory

Location: Mumbai, Gurugram, Ahemdabad, Pune

Sectors: Infrastructure, Power, Energy, Healthcare, Life Science, Pharma

Practice: Client Facing - Front End : India Markets

Transaction Services team serves as a single source of advice for all our clients' transaction needs - we assist with acquisitions, disposals and deal finance, amongst others, for corporate, PE houses and other financial institutions. We have executed more than 350 transactions in the past one year. With around 70 full time dedicated professionals, Big4 TS is managed as a single practice to provide integrated services to clients.

Transaction Services team has deep sector expertise across a wide range of industries. Some of the key sectors would include Power Utilities & Infrastructure, IT/ITeS, Pharma & Chemicals, Financial Services, Media & Entertainment, Real Estate, Food & Agriculture, Tourism & Hospitality, Engineering & Construction, etc. Our teams have been involved in various pre-deal evaluations, data rooms, full access due diligences, carve outs providing a deep understanding of transaction and negotiation issues.

Some of the key areas that TS does work in, are as follows:

- Buy side financial due diligence assistance

- Sell side assistance including vendor assist and vendor due diligence

- Cross border assistance

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Working in our multi-disciplined teams, you will apply your talents to a wide variety of complex, demanding and high profile transactions from acquisitions and mergers to flotation's and buy-outs. Your responsibilities will include:

- Identification of key issues and carrying out the relevant financial analysis

- To undertake smaller assignments or assist in larger assignments reporting to Partner, with their limited supervision

- Preparation of good TS reports, including review of sections compiled by other team members on the job

- Management of and contribution to the development of junior staff, including timely and objective feedback on every job

- Establishing credibility with clients/targets as a representative of Transaction Services

- Maintaining business contacts at middle/senior levels (i.e. it is our expectation that manager will make a positive commitment to maintaining contact with people they meet on transactions, who may become important providers of work in the future)

- To actively participate in compiling proposals/business development activities

- To contribute to the effective working of the team and development of team morale

- Ensure that risk documentation are completed for all jobs on a timely basis as per the applicable T&R technical/risk management policies

- To contribute to practice development initiative, if possible - sales, people, solution development etc.

THE INDIVIDUAL:

- Qualified Chartered Accountant (ideally first attempt)

- Have 5-8 years of work experience for Manager position in Transaction Services or in a similar environment (Audit and accounting firms)

- Strong analytical, research, and organizational skills, issue identification/prioritization/ resolution and report writing skills.

- Ability to execute project plans, manage multiple tasks, prioritize workloads and manage individual/team budgets

- Have the ability to work under pressure - stringent deadlines and tough client conditions which may demand extended working hours

- Strong written and spoken English language skills

- Strong Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint skills

- Good to have IFRS knowledge & experience

- Be willing to travel within India or abroad for continuous long periods of time

- Have strong soft skills like; inter personal skills, team skills, communication skills both verbal and written

QUALIFICATION

- Be a qualified CA (ideally 1st attempt)

SELECTION PROCESS

- HR discussion

- Technical Interview

- Partner Interview

COMPENSATION

- Compensation is competitive with industry standards

- Details of the compensation breakup will be shared with short-listed candidates only

PEOPLE BENEFITS

- A strong learning culture

- Quarterly rewards and recognition programme - 'Encore'

- Comprehensive medical insurance coverage for staff and family

- Expansive general and accidental coverage for staff