About PwC And Financial Due Diligence
At PwC we work on some of the most exciting and market-leading deals, and we pride ourselves on our inclusive culture, focus on wellbeing and commitment to development. You’ll have the opportunity to build a long-term career working with high-profile clients across a diverse range of transactions, supported by leading technology, advanced data tools, and innovative digital platforms.
Our Transaction Services practice supports private equity, investment funds and corporates throughout the deal cycle — from buy-side and sell-side due diligence through to value creation analysis. We combine deep sector knowledge with commercial insight to help clients make confident, informed investment decisions.
The business operates across sector focused teams – from Retail & Consumer, Technology and Healthcare to Industrials, Financial Services and more. Our senior leadership team is sector-specialised, meaning you’ll naturally learn from experts and build deeper sector insight, with the opportunity for you to become more specialised as you progress.
About The Role
As a Senior Manager in Financial Due Diligence, you’ll play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality analysis, managing complex projects, and shaping the insights that guide client decisions.
You’ll lead teams through the review of financial and commercial performance, assess key deal drivers and value-creation levers, and communicate findings clearly and effectively to senior stakeholders. You’ll interact directly with senior management teams, business owners and private equity investors, developing trusted advisor relationships and bringing clarity to fast-moving, high-stakes situations.
You’ll also contribute to the growth of the practice: developing people, building sector knowledge, expanding internal and external networks, and helping identify opportunities to support clients across the deal lifecycle.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Shaping engagement scope, leading the financial due diligence workstream and driving project management
- Leading engagements for corporate and private equity clients, including liaising with other diligence workstreams and advisors.
- Delivering clear, commercially focused insights that support clients’ value creation hypotheses.
- Managing the preparation of high-quality diligence reports for our clients.
- Overseeing analysis of historical and forecast performance, cash flows, working capital, and key business drivers.
- Applying strong analytical skills and commercial judgement to identify issues, trends and deal considerations.
- Leading, coaching and developing diverse teams across multiple UK locations.
- Presenting findings to senior stakeholders and clearly and articulately responding to challenge.
- Building relationships to support business development and contribute to practice growth.
- Using leading data and analytics tools (Alteryx, PowerBI) to enhance insight and delivery.
Skills & Experience
- ACA (or equivalent international qualification) or relevant equivalent experience.
- Strong financial due diligence experience in a deals, advisory or related environment.
- Excellent analytical capability with the ability to interpret financial information in a commercial, value-creation context.
- Ability to identify key drivers, risks, deal breakers and commercial implications.
- Sound commercial judgement with the ability to link financial insights to broader deal strategy.
- Comfortable navigating complex issues, asking thoughtful questions and shaping the story for clients.
- Proven experience managing, motivating, and developing high-performing teams.
- Commitment to building inclusive, diverse teams and supporting people’s growth.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Clear and articulate presenting to senior stakeholders and ability to build trusted relationships.
- Proactive in building internal and external networks to support opportunity creation.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage timelines, deliverables, and risk processes.
If you’re looking to grow your career in deals with a team that values quality, collaboration and development, we’d love to hear from you.
