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M&A Assistant Manager - Corporate Finance - Birmingham

Employer
BDO International
Location
Bestwood Village, UK
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Oct 16, 2019

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Job Role
Accounts Assistant
Sector
Finance
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
BDO LLP is an accountancy and business advisory firm, we provide integrated advice and solutions to help businesses navigate a changing world. Our clients are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy.We share our clients' ambitions and their entrepreneurial mind-set. We have the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise to help them succeed.BDO LLP operates in 17 locations across the UK, employing 5,000 people offering tax, audit and assurance, and a range of advisory services. BDO LLP has revenues of £590m and is the UK member firm of the BDO International network. The BDO global network provides business advisory services in 162 countries, with 80,000 people working out of 1,500 offices worldwide. It has revenues of $9bn. Overview As an Assistant Manager, you will be required to use your previous experience and work closely with, and support, senior and assist junior members within the team and assist in the timely delivery of services. You will gain understanding and experience in the field of corporate finance for both buy-side and sell-side work, involving public and private companies, owner-managed businesses and private equity houses. You will also develop knowledge of different sectors. Responsibilities
• Support advisory projects on both buy-side and sell-side.
• Support the corporate finance team in the performance of 'hands on' field work.
• Prepare reports, information memoranda and documents using Word and PowerPoint
• Prepare financial models using Excel
• Provide clients with value-adding recommendations for improvements in processes and controls.
• Provide Corporate Finance Managers with input as to the scope of an engagement, appropriate budget and timeframe.
• Produce draft pitch, proposal and tender documents.
• Provide a point of contact throughout the engagement with respect to routine project issues and questions.
• Identify and present potential solutions to project issues to Project Managers.
• Ensure client feedback is captured, addressed and effectively communicated to the Project Managers.
• Accompany more senior team members to meetings with clients as required, and assist with the preparation for and follow-up from such meetings.
• Assist with general correspondence, administration (including billing) and ad hoc projects within the department.
• Collate and analyse relevant documentation and information supplied and draft outputs under the direction of the project manager/director
• Produce high quality schedules and appendices for inclusion in reports/project documents.
• Support practice development activity and internal and external sales and marketing activities.
• Supervise, coach and develop junior members of staff within teams, on client premises and in the office.
• Seek and take action in feedback. Requirements
• ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent), or relevant work experience.
• Experience of working within corporate finance or related disciplines.
• Good knowledge of MS Office, in particular Word and Excel.Our Agency PolicyBDO has a commitment to building relationships directly with candidates (and agencies) in our local markets and as such, we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. We work closely with our preferred suppliers to support us in sourcing quality candidates but we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the BDO Resourcing team. We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to BDO by any means other than through our recruitment portal. For any CVs which are submitted without instruction from the BDO Resourcing team, BDO reserves the right to contact and work directly with these candidates without payment of any agency fee.

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