Corporate Development – Financial Due Diligence Specialist
Job Description:
- Corporate Development – Financial Due Diligence Specialist plays a key role in Accenture’s inorganic growth strategies.
- Works closely with North America, Europe & LATAM FDD teams, performing high quality diligence and analysis for acquisitions, joint ventures, and equity investments.
- Focus on analyzing the quality of target company earnings, operating metrics, debt and debt-like items, and net working capital, which may influence the outcome of the transaction.
- Review, analysis, and preparation of key financial documents from the virtual data room (data book, data pack).
- Perform key operating and financial analysis, attend target meetings, negotiation calls along with NA and Europe teams (whenever time zone permits), and prepare initial NWC.
- Working closely with regional financial due diligence team to provide advice to the corporate development team related to key deal issues impacting the business case and/or integration.
- Provide continuity/transition to the post-merger integration and operational finance teams post-closing.
Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in professional services or consulting in major accounting/financial firm.
- Prior Financial due diligence experience is preferred.
- Degree in Accounting or Finance.
- Strong English skills written and verbal. Advanced reading and writing comprehension skills. Portuguese is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Supported multiple financial due diligence projects.
- CA/CPA/MBA/CFA (preferred).
Professional Skills:
- This highly visible position requires exceptional drive and energy, strong financial and analytical skills, hands-on experience with mergers and acquisitions (including financial due diligence), project management skills, highly effective verbal and written communications skills, and familiarity with merger and stock purchase agreements.
- Advanced financial analysis and Microsoft Excel skills.
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting.