EY - Associate/Senior Associate - Financial Due Diligence - Strategy & Transactions Division - CA

Associate/ Senior Associate Strategy & Transactions Transaction Diligence

The potential for error is high in an environment where speed is critical. Companies looking for local and global deals face strong competition for quality assets and stakeholder scrutiny regarding acquisitions. M&A success starts with comprehensive diligence, its the only way to understand if the deal is the right decision at the right price. As a part of Transaction Diligence team you'll be right at the heart of the action. You'll work with many of the worlds largest organizations, fastest-growing companies and private equity firms on some of the most complex deals. You'll be advising our clients throughout the diligence lifecycle on key drivers to increase value and reduce the risks and uncertainty inherent in transactions.

The opportunity:

EY is looking for Senior Associate in Strategy & Transactions Division.

Your key responsibilities:

Client service delivery/execution

- Execute the work on a multiple client base.

- Assume near independent responsibility for smaller clients

- Develop rapport with middle layers of client management Risk Management

- Ensure compliance with risk management strategies, plans and activities.

- Understand the concept of risk management and be able to bring to focus risk issues on client assignments and take issues to the notice of the manager/supervisor

Knowledge Management

- Support knowledge sharing efforts and improve processes so that the work team can capture and leverage knowledge Networking & Identification of opportunities

- Start identifying new opportunities for existing clients and communicates to manager

- Network internally within the peer group and other levels in the firm in order to gain understanding of issues that may impact issues with his clients.

Skills and attributes for success:

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

- Analyzed historic and current financial information

- Analyzed projections and assumptions used for the same

- 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 the same advising on structuring issues

- High team orientation

- Good communication both written and oral (including report writing)

- Strong analytical skills are a must

- Good at building relationships with clients

- Due diligence experience as part of M&A team in industry or Big 3 CA firms

- Been a part of the audit and assurance practice of Big 4 CA firms with some due diligence exposure

- Industry experience primarily in data analysis, MIS, project handling

To qualify for the role you must have:

Chartered Accountant with good academic background and 1-5 years of relevant post qualification work experience

Ideally you'll also have:

- Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills.

- Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.

- Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client)

- Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility.