Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC
Senior Associate-Transaction Advisory/Financial Due Diligence (Finance)
A&M is looking to expand its Transaction Advisory Group in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Atlanta, Houston, Nashville and Boston.
OUR TRANSACTION ADVISORY PROFESSIONALS
The A&M Transaction Advisory Group ("TAG") is comprised of former Big Four CPAs who provide private equity and corporate clients buy side and sell side financial accounting due diligence. TAG professionals actively engage in assessing a target's quality of earnings, analyzing cash flows, reviewing working capital, identifying key business drivers, reviewing forecasts, and conducting comprehensive discussions with management and their advisors.
TAG professionals routinely team with the firm's operational, tax, commercial, and information technology professionals to deliver a truly integrated solution to clients.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with core financial due diligence, helping to identify key risks and potential deal breakers, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the business against industry benchmarks, and assist with the evaluation of the potential transaction in the context of their clients' investment strategy.
- Analyze detailed financial statement information including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and key operational data. Synthesize and convert the data into meaningful information that is used to drive discussions with target management and drive observations and conclusions.
- The candidate will participate in meetings and conference calls with target company management and with client personnel, and the will serve as a secondary point of contact for client personnel with respect to day-to-day execution matters. Between transactions, the candidate will assist with building / maintaining client relationships.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or master's degree in accounting and/or related major
- CPA certification or in process of obtaining one
- Big Four experience preferred
- Highly proficient in Excel
- The ideal candidate for the Associate position will have at least 2-4 years of audit experience at a Big Four accounting firm as well as a preferred minimum 1 year of experience in a financial accounting due diligence group
- The successful candidate will be ranked a Top Performer in his or her peer group and furthermore, driven to success, a self-starter, and have strong interpersonal and communication skills. The individual will be insightful, decisive, a critical thinker, and commercial. Further, the individual will be able to work well on teams however will develop the knowledge and maturity to work with our clients independently.
Specific characteristics include:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to articulate to senior members of target management, client representatives and colleagues
- Highly analytical mind-set
- Strong project management skills
- Deep accounting skills including a working knowledge of U.S. GAAP
- Team oriented personality
- Professional in style and demeanor / exercises good judgment
- Motivated and effective in a fast paced culture
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