Deals Contracts & Closing Mechanism Manager

PwC Canada; Montreal; On-site; CAD 88,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total rewards package

Accommodation during process

Job summary

PwC Canada is seeking a Deals Contracts & Closing Mechanisms Manager to join our Transaction Services team. You’ll work with buyers and sellers to navigate mergers, divestitures, and financing transactions, ensuring protections and accurate pricing mechanics.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage engagement leaders, and travel up to 30% across North America and internationally while upholding PwC's standards of excellence and delivering high-quality client service.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in audit, accounting advisory, dispute advisory or deals.
• Chartered Accountant designation required or local equivalent.
• Strong communication, presentation and report writing skills.
• Willingness to travel up to 30% across North America and internationally.
• Fluency in French for Quebec-based opportunities; otherwise French is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Help buyers and sellers prepare, close, and realize profits on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financing transactions.
• Sale and Purchase Agreement advisory, with protection built into agreements and pricing mechanics.
• Post-closing assistance and negotiations related to the pricing mechanism.
• Support clients across industries with deal sizes from $15 million to over $1 billion.

Skills

Audit experience

Accounting advisory

Dispute advisory

Deals

CPA designation

Communication skills

Leadership

Travel up to 30%

French fluency

Education

Chartered Accountant designation (CA)

Job description

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. In transaction services at PwC, you will provide strategic advice and support to clients in their mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Your work will include conducting due diligence, financial analysis, and managing the transaction process.

A career in our Contracts and Closing Mechanisms practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help create value for clients who are executing mergers, acquisitions and divestitures in a complex deals environment. We work with a wide range of corporate, strategic and private equity clients, advising on the financial and accounting aspects of sale and purchase agreements, assist in the negotiation of the enterprise to equity value bridge and advise during the calculation of financial metrics, post-closing. We review hundreds of agreements every year across all industry sectors, and bring a deep level of knowledge and expertise to maximize value and support our clients as they negotiate their deals.

PwC Canada’s Transaction Services practice is comprised of more than 100 deals professionals that bring a combination of financial, commercial, and operational expertise with data-driven insights to create value for our clients across all stages of the deal lifecycle. The Contracts and Closing Mechanisms (CCM) team is a small team of specialists with backgrounds in audit and assurance, deals, and disputes.

The Opportunity:

As a Deals Contracts & Closing Mechanism Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve business issues, deliver high quality client service and operational efficiency. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Helping buyers and sellers to prepare better, close faster and realize profits sooner on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and financing transactions. We focus on two main service areas:
• Sale and Purchase Agreement Advisory - we understand the key risks and issues identified during diligence and work with clients and lawyers to ensure the sale and purchase agreements have built in protections to protect against these risks. We also advise on the financial definitions that impact the basis of preparation of the pricing mechanism.
• Post-Closing Assistance - we help our clients to maximize and protect value through the purchase price mechanism through the preparation/review process as well as advise during post-closing negotiations and/or disputes over the pricing mechanism (i.e. cash, debt, and net working capital).
• Support clients across a broad range of industries with transaction sizes ranging anywhere between $15 million and in excess of $1 billion. Our clients include:
• Major Canadian public and private corporations;
• Leading Canadian financial buyers (Private Equity and Pension Funds); and
• Inbound financial and strategic acquirers.

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong experience in audit, accounting advisory, dispute advisory or deals.
• A Chartered Accountant Designation (or local equivalent) required· Proven technical and analytical capabilities including proven financial and business performance analysis skills.
• Strong communication, presentation and report writing skills· Proven engagement team management and leadership skills.
• A demonstrated commitment to valuing differences and working alongside diverse people and perspectives.
• The position requires flexibility and will require travel throughout North America and internationally which can be up to 30% of your time.
• Qualified Canadian CPA or an equivalent reciprocal/recognized accounting designation
• When applying to a Quebec based opportunity, fluency in French is required. Outside of Quebec, fluency in French is an asset

This position ensures continuity and upholds our standards of excellence following the departure of a valued team member.

The salary range for this position is $87,700 - $137,700. The posted salary range represents the expected hiring range for PwC locations in major city centres. Given our national recruiting approach, ranges may vary for positions in other locations. At PwC Canada, base salary is determined by your skills, experience, qualifications and work location. In addition to base salary, eligible employees may have opportunities to participate in variable incentive pay programs which are designed to reward individual and firm-wide achievements. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and adhere to all relevant pay transparency legislation. During the hiring process, our Talent Acquisition team will provide details about our comprehensive total rewards package.

Why you’ll love PwC

We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of diverse teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about our Application Process and Total Rewards Package at: https://jobs-ca.pwc.com/ca/en/life-at-pwc

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