Assistant Director, M&A Finance, EFT, M&A

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Join the UK's leading M&A services business. The strength and depth of the Deloitte offering across the M&A spectrum from Lead Advisory through Transaction Services to Post-merger Integration is unrivalled. You will join the market leading Equity Capital Markets, Finance, and Transaction Management Office (“EFT”) team and will have the opportunity to work on high profile transactions covering equity capital markets, corporate and private equity transactions across a range of industries, within a highly commercial, client focused environment.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

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This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's growing M&A Finance team that sits in SRTA. You will work on high profile assignments with some of the best in the field, across a wide variety of transactions covering equity capital markets, corporate mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, within a highly commercial, client focussed environment.

Our M&A Finance team is a group of qualified accountants, with a background in transactions who have successfully advised on some of the largest cross-border deals of recent years. We deploy experienced professionals with deep expertise of Finance as a function and M&A knowledge, who can own and drive the CFO’s capital agenda and related finance workstreams and be deployed across the transaction to meet the finance function aspirations. The team will work alongside client management and other advisers to protect value at deal completion and realise value post deal.

Typically, we operate alongside colleagues providing our clients with a multi-disciplinary and end-to-end transaction assist service which accesses Deloitte’s vast range of specialist expertise including: M&A Tech, M&A People, merger integration or separation, modelling and analytics. We regularly work on international assignments involving cross-border as well as cross-service line teams requiring our people to build wide networks across both the UK and International firms.

Responsibilities:

You will primarily focus on providing clients with specialist M&A Finance advice, based on your track record of delivering and running finance related workstreams across a number of transactions, both international and domestic, including acquisitions, divestitures, IPOs, mergers and demergers. Crucially, you will be part of the deal leadership team on projects, assisting senior finance stakeholders to manage large and complex transactions from inception through to delivery on areas including but not limited to: designing finance operating models, stand-up and change management of finance operational, finance tech optionality and selection, calculating and benchmarking the cost of finance, finance change project management through the deal execution, identifying and implementing value creation opportunities through finance etc.

This role requires significant exposure to and interaction with senior strategic and financial decision-makers at our client’s stakeholders, so a desire to work in a client engagement environment is essential. Your responsibilities will vary per project and are unique to each transaction however the key responsibilities below give some insight into what the role will entail.

• Bring capital markets / M&A transaction expertise and insight to the overall transaction preparation and execution process;
• Support company transaction leads in establishing and setting up the overall transaction and workstream structure;
• Work with company transaction leads, investment banks and other advisors to develop the overall transaction timetable, roadmap and plan, then work closely with workstream leads to develop and deliver on these workstream plan;
• Design and development of programme structure and governance forums;
• Primary point of contact and stakeholder management across all transaction stakeholders (e.g. company-side teams and advisors, including banks, lawyers and Deloitte subject matter experts);
• Lead discussions with external and internal stakeholders in respect of overall transaction and workstream status, action tracking, risks, issues, dependencies and budget reporting;
• Input into and support the drafting of key transaction documents (e.g. Prospectus, Circular, Investment Memorandum, Management Presentations etc);
• Co-ordination of company-side diligence, data room, information request and verification activities;
• Lead and co-ordinate transaction steering committees and working group meetings;
• Oversee the preparation of presentations, Board and steering committee papers and materials, decision-making packs for both internal and external audiences, in order to support transaction preparation and execution;
• Lead business development opportunities with clients and Deloitte network;
• Work effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution;
• Oversee Deloitte team budget development and cost tracking and reporting.

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Essential:

• Significant experience in M&A – both private and public transactions
• ICAEW qualified
• Strong technical accounting/finance track record
• Experience in supporting businesses with finance function design for public and private transactions as well as readiness assessments
• Track record of delivering large, complex finance engagements – including technical programmes, finance tech programmes and conversion programmes
• Significant experience in completing finance specific deal completion assessments as well as transitionary finance operating model work
• Proven track record of leading finance change across organisations via a range of transactional and transformation programmes – within a deal context
• Experience in finance tech programmes – for readiness, completion and post deal assessments including value analysis
• Strong knowledge of finance control environments including 3 Lines of Defence models, risk management and internal audit
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization, internally and externally and experience in drafting and presenting finance Board documents (including Audit Committee papers)
• Experience with working with PE backed businesses and enacting change across finance functions
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present clearly in presentation or pitches including senior level stakeholders; ideally comfortable in corporate and private equity board rooms
• Strategic thinker with strong business acumen and the ability to evaluate potential acquisition opportunities in line with long-term business objectives
• Experience in finance synergy work is preferred – finance operational levers, benchmarking and value analysis in a deal context
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in finance, business, or a related field; MBA or equivalent advanced degree is preferred
• Full travel mobility

Desirables:

• Experience in industry (either as full-time employment or an extensive secondment) – within a finance role or working alongside CFO’s/finance functions as a key finance business partner
• Relevant experience in at least one of the following industries: consumer goods, energy and resources, industrials, technology and media, financial services or life sciences

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