Overview
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The Reading based TS team are expanding, looking for a Manager to join and help build out our ambitious growth plan. We have a fully integrated Deals business comprising Corporate Finance, Transaction Services and Transactions Tax & Legal, with over 65 Deals professionals nationally. We work with clients to make the buying or selling of businesses feel straightforward and to maximise the value achieved from the process, providing refreshingly clear advice backed by insightful financial analysis.
Our financial due diligence process checks each key financial aspect of a transaction important to our clients, identifying value drivers, potential value adjustments, providing input to the sale & purchase agreement (SPA), mitigating risks and challenging assumptions about future performance.
Responsibilities
* Co-developing our approach, scope and objectives with the client, understanding key business performance drivers, and providing value through insights and commercial advice
* Gathering, verifying and assessing information, formulating views and conclusions
* Planning, preparing and reviewing outputs from our work, including written reports and presentations/meetings with the client, ensuring insightful data analysis and presentation
* Planning and monitoring the progress of live projects, including sharing of potential key issues, such as identification of risk for our client or items impacting price
* Establishing yourself as a key client contact
* Project managing and working together with team members
* Sharing your technical and wider knowledge with the team and providing coaching to others
* Understanding the wider capabilities of Cooper Parry and looking for opportunities to broaden the services provided to our clients
* Playing a leading role in the Transaction Services team and business opportunity initiatives
About You
We are looking for someone who is confident and has a bit of gravitas when dealing with and supporting clients. You will be working to deadlines, so being able to keep calm and use your project management skills to get things done is essential.
* Have an ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification
* Have at least 3 years of financial due diligence experience (ideally both buy side & sell side due diligence, completion accounts, locked box and SPA experience) and strong commercial acumen
* Ideally having already worked with lower mid-market Private Equity houses
* Ideally have sector experience in one or more of the Technology, Healthcare or Business Services sectors
* Have excellent communication and project management skills
* Have accomplished report writing experience and strong Excel skills
Above all, you will love working in a team, supporting and nurturing more junior members so they can maximise their potential.
About Us
We’re straight-talking and put people and relationships before products and services. This is what’s made us the fastest growing firm of accountants in the UK, and our vision is to continue. Over the last couple years alone, we have achieved some fantastic feats:
* Ranked No.1 in the Accountancy Age Mid-Tier Power Index
* Awards for wellbeing, employee voice, culture & purpose and employee experience, plus Best Company/Most Inspiring Place to Work For - No.1 in Large Companies category
* B Corp certified! Measuring and improving our impact beyond business for a brighter tomorrow
* Best Companies No.1 Accountancy Firm to work for in the UK & No.30 Best Large Company to work for 2023
Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Finance and Sales
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