Description:
This role provides strong candidates with the opportunity to become a key part of a rapidly growing area of the business, and offers highly attractive career development and progression opportunities. The Deal Advisory department has extensive experience in all aspects of deal advisory from mergers and acquisitions, transaction advisory services, valuations, raising capital and debt and business planning.
Responsibilities:
- Managing detailed financial reviews and due diligence investigations (reviewing databooks, report writing, identification of key financial and commercial items);
- Managing sale and purchase mandates, MBO and MBI assignments (overseeing IM and financial databook preparation, preparing target lists);
- Managing the preparation of valuation reports (reviewing target research and valuation models and overseeing the writing of the report);
- Managing debt and equity raisings (reviewing databooks and writing of information documents);
- Preparation of robust and flexible financial models (including 3 statement forecast models and sensitivity analysis);
- Managing the preparation of business plans;
- Liaising with clients, target, financial institutions, solicitors etc;
- Preparation of presentations and marketing initiatives.
Requirements:
- The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with ACA, CFA or equivalent qualification;
- A minimum of 3 year’s post qualification experience with prior experience in deal advisory or corporate banking;
- Strong understanding of GAAP principles (IFRS and Irish GAAP);
- Advanced skills in MS Office – Excel and Power Point; experience in use of databases such as S&P Cap IQ Pro, Mergermarket, Bloomberg etc. is advantageous;
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to write clear, concise reports;
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Strong interpersonal skills;
- Highly motivated, with a proven ability to work on own initiative within a challenging and dynamic work environment;
- Strong team player with good organisation and planning skills;
- Strong time-management skills and ability to work towards deadlines; and
- Actively pursuing self-learning, on the job training and knowledge from other team members
- Fluent English, other European languages are advantageous;