M&A Transaction Services – Assistant Director
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In an international firm like Deloitte, our strong global presence is complemented by our local reach and market knowledge. A career in Financial Advisory with Deloitte Professional Services Limited will equip you with a deep understanding of the local and regional business landscape, enabling you to identify opportunities and risks to our clients’ businesses. In addition, your breadth of vision will be engaged, as you match our global resources to our clients’ advantage. Our FA practice encompasses a broad range of specializations and services but whose common goal is to offer strategic services to clients throughout every phase of the economic cycle. With such a wealth of specializations, you will have the opportunity to pick the one most suited to you.
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During your tenure as an Assistant Director in M&A transaction services, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:
- Reviews outputs of financial analyses to guide client’s management to make decisions
- Develops new and innovative approaches to analyzing data to help team draw meaningful conclusions; champions the use of advanced visualization to extract insights from a data set and presents findings in a clear, logical manner to client executives
- Resolves escalated scope, timeline, or resourcing issues and shapes team’s priorities to address most urgent and relevant tasks
- Understands the larger ecosystem within which the client operates; uses to facilitate discussions about potential solutions to the client’s most pressing deal issues
- Thinks longer-term beyond the current deal and builds support for a financially beneficial and sustainable solution
- Identifies relevant business trends, economic forces, and industry practices and can confidently discuss with the client
- Builds personal brand and supports eminence building in chosen industry/sector
- Sets direction regarding the development and compliance of standards, guidelines and service agreements
- Help clients translate their M&A strategy and vision into successful planning and execution
- Combines expertise in one stage of a transaction with a deep understanding of a particular industry/sector and advises on integration points a critical focus areas
- Guides client through critical decision points needed to prepare for a potential transaction that aligns to business and growth goals to create a competitive advantage in the marketplace
- Executes a deal that comprehensively assesses risk to support likelihood of deal success and mitigate potential contingencies
- Employs industry and functional expertise to enable successful integration or separation, realization of synergy targets, and transaction value optimization
- Identifies opportunities to increase post-deal efficiency, reduce risks, and capitalize on synergy opportunities; advises client accordingly
Leadership Capabilities:
- Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values.
- Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams
- Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
- Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
- Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
- Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
- Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others
Qualifications:
- 9 - 10+ years or more experience in financial consulting (Financial Advisory/ Corporate Finance) or Investment Banking/ Merchant Banking, preferably in Corporate Finance Department with experience in areas such as business valuations, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence, financial modeling and re-structuring, raising debt or equity.
- Demonstrated ability to manage people and plan components of engagements along with ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.
- Recognized accounting qualification and/or CFA/CBV/CA certification preferred - otherwise MBA or equivalent, with emphasis on finance/financial planning or investment analysis.
- Advanced level of technical proficiency and computer literacy particularly with spreadsheets (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Bilinguals (Arabic & English) preferred.