Financial Due Diligence - Director
On-siteLondon, England, United Kingdom
Job Summary
Lead complex buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory engagements, providing financial and business due diligence support to private equity firms, strategic buyers, and corporate clients. Analyse target company financial information to identify operating trends, quality of earnings, assets, and potential liabilities. Advise clients on transaction valuation, deal structure, and negotiations while serving as a senior point of contact to build trusted relationships with stakeholders. Lead and coordinate multiple engagements simultaneously, managing engagement teams, third-party providers, and project economics. Review and approve financial analyses, workpapers, and executive-level presentations. Recruit and mentor Senior Managers and Consultants through technical leadership and coaching. Contribute to proposal development, client relationship management, and broader business development initiatives to drive practice growth.
Required Qualifications
- At least 12 years of experience in assurance and/or transaction advisory within a Big 4 firm
- Professional services experience, including experience leading complex client engagements
- Exposure to private equity transactions, including experience working with private equity clients and/or their portfolio companies
- Experience leading buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements
- Experience analysing and advising clients on quality of earnings, working capital, debt and debt-like items, cash flow, historical and projected financial performance, and other transaction-related financial considerations
- Experience serving as a senior advisor to private equity sponsors, portfolio company executives, strategic buyers, and corporate clients throughout the transaction lifecycle
- Strong current knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP, and/or other accounting principles relevant to transaction advisory engagements
- Experience leading client presentations and delivering executive-level financial due diligence reports and transaction recommendations
- Experience managing multiple engagement teams while overseeing staffing, engagement economics, quality, risk management, and client delivery
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills used for financial modelling and data analysis, including PivotTables, lookups, arrays, Power Pivot, Power Query, and related functionality
- Experience developing long-term client relationships and contributing to business development through proposals, client expansion, networking, cross-selling, and other revenue-generation activities
- Experience mentoring and developing transaction advisory professionals and contributing to the growth of a practice or team
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with the ability to build credibility with senior and executive stakeholders
- Proactive in identifying client needs and developing long-term trusted advisor relationships
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities with sound judgement in complex transaction environments
- Highly organised with the ability to lead multiple engagements, teams, and competing priorities
- Entrepreneurial, self-motivated, adaptable, ethical, and dependable
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced transaction environment where workload may increase around critical deal deadlines
- High energy with a commitment to exceptional client service, practice growth, and talent development
Desired Qualifications
- ACA, ACCA, CA, or another relevant professional accounting qualification
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
- Experience across both assurance and transaction advisory engagements
- Experience with mergers and acquisitions, carve-outs, post-close integration planning, or other complex transaction environments
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