Assistant Director, Deal Origination, Financial Services, M&A

Deloitte LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A top consulting firm in Greater London is seeking an Assistant Director to enhance their Financial Services sector practice. In this role, you'll maintain sector expertise, lead marketing efforts, and support clients through M&A transactions. Ideal candidates should possess strong analytical skills, knowledge of private equity, and a motivating background in financial services. You will be expected to build client relationships and mentor junior colleagues. This position offers a hybrid working environment with opportunities for significant professional growth.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Career coaching for returners

Continuous personal development

Qualifications

• Self-starter with ability to work independently and in a team
• Experience in M&A or Corporate Development/Strategy
• Comfortable in high-exposure client environments

Responsibilities

• Maintain sector expertise for client engagement
• Lead preparation of marketing materials
• Support clients through the M&A cycle
• Conduct financial performance analysis
• Build relationships to generate new engagements

Skills

Highly motivated self-starter

Knowledge of the Financial Services sector

Understanding of private equity clients

Excellent numerical aptitude and analytical skills

Experience with senior level stakeholders

Great people person

Education

Exceptional academic background

ACA or CFA qualification or equivalent experience

Job description

This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's market-leading Deal Origination business, a fast-growing platform widely recognized by our clients for original insight and deep sector and business expertise. We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced individual to help grow our Financial Services sector practice.

Joining our team would provide a driven, self-starter individual with the opportunity to be involved in high profile transactions within a very commercial, client focused environment, and make a real impact in shaping the future of our business.

If you enjoy being a Financial Services sector expert, developing views on sector dynamics and M&A scenarios and advising major corporate and private equity clients on strategic options to drive organic and inorganic growth, this is the role for you You will play a key part in sourcing, screening and presenting potential investment opportunities to private equity investors, as well as developing deep client and industry relationships.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?

It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

Our team provides clients with tailored coverage of the near- and long-term deal pipeline, alongside proprietary analysis of specific opportunities. Typically, this involves deep commercial, financial and operational analysis of potential target businesses to help inform clients’ understanding prior to diligence stage.

Roles and Responsibilities

As an Assistant Director on the team, you will:

• Maintain and enhance sector expertise to support client engagement and idea generation;
• Lead the preparation of marketing materials for corporate and private equity clients;
• Build strong relationships with clients and support them across the entire M&A cycle, from deal execution to integration to transformation, working alongside experienced professionals in Deloitte M&A, FDD, VCS, Tax and Consulting teams;
• Understanding of business operations and its drivers;
• Analysis of historical financial performance;
• Market analysis including mapping competitors and market landscapes to understand competitive positioning, market drivers etc.;
• Forming a view of the potential investment thesis, including topline growth and margin expansion opportunities; and
• Financial modelling (LBO, DCF) and comparables analysis to inform view on potential valuation;
• Build strong relationships with clients and support them across the entire M&A cycle, from deal execution to integration to transformation, working alongside experienced professionals in Deloitte M&A, FDD, VCS, Tax and Consulting teams;
• Grow a network of contacts internally and externally to generate new engagements for the firm and grow Deloitte brand in the Financial Services ecosystem;

As an Assistant Director, you will also be a core senior member of the team and will have leadership responsibilities including:

• Mentor junior colleagues, helping them build technical as well as soft skills and coaching them to achieve their career aspirations.
• Contribute to the overall leadership of the team, champion integrity, diversity and integrity

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Knowledge or experience of the Financial Services sector
• Understanding of private equity clients and private equity deal-making
• Great people person who is comfortable with client exposure from the outset, with the ability to build relationships and develop your own network
• Excellent numerical aptitude and analytical skills, with an ability or interest in appraising businesses from a financial, commercial and deal investment perspective
• Experience of operating with senior level stakeholders, and in building and managing client relationships
• Exceptional academic background
• An ACA or CFA qualification or equivalent experience
• Experience of working within M&A or Corporate Development / Strategy (e.g. via Big 4, Strategy Consulting, Boutique Advisory, corporate client, investment bank), ideally within Services sector

In an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Mergers and Acquisitions

We challenge dealmakers to expect more and to see beyond the deal to create sustainable value for shareholders, employees and society. We support corporates, private equity and financial investors across the full M&A lifecycle and are committed to identifying and delivering sustainable value at every stage of the deal.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process, or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"At Deloitte you’re surrounded by subject matter experts; industry experts, technology experts, and you can access that knowledge whenever you need to." -Christian, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Connect to your return-to-work opportunity

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers