Associate Director - Value Creation

Warner Scott; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Warner Scott, a leading UK accountancy and advisory firm, is seeking an Associate Director to join its Value Creation team. You will lead day-to-day client work across a range of project sizes, supervising teams, and driving commercial and risk management while working closely with Directors and Partners.

The role involves carve-out due diligence, merger integration, and wider value creation engagements for corporates and private equity investors, with opportunities to develop business networks,

Qualifications

• Significant experience in at least two core areas: carve-outs, integrations, or value creation in advisory.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with strong analytical skills and project or transformation capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day client work across a range of project sizes, taking responsibility for commercial and risk management.
• Contribute to carve-out due diligence and execution, merger integration and wider value creation engagements.
• Prepare sales proposals and pitches, building networks and qualifying leads to generate new opportunities.
• Support, coach and, where relevant, manage more junior colleagues, and assist Directors and Partners with leading internal initiatives.

Job description

A leading UK accountancy and advisory firm is looking to hire at Associate Director level into its Value Creation team. This is a senior hire within a practice that helps public companies, privately held businesses and private equity investors increase the value from transactions, with a focus on business operations, both pre-deal and post-deal. The team is highly practical and pragmatic, and works closely with specialists across the firm to form single client teams based on what each client needs.

The Role

You will lead day-to-day client work across a range of project sizes, from devising and leading client meetings and undertaking analysis to preparing high-quality deliverables and managing commercial and risk issues, working independently on smaller projects and leading small teams on larger ones.

Working closely with Directors and Partners, you will contribute to carve-out due diligence and execution, merger integration and wider value creation work. You will prepare sales proposals and pitches, using your internal and external networks to generate opportunities, whilst supporting the development of more junior colleagues and helping to run the practice day to day.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day client work across a range of project sizes, taking responsibility for commercial and risk management.
• Contribute to carve-out due diligence and execution, merger integration and wider value creation engagements.
• Prepare sales proposals and pitches, building networks and qualifying leads to generate new opportunities.
• Support, coach and, where relevant, manage more junior colleagues, and assist Directors and Partners with leading internal initiatives.

Candidate Profile

• Significant experience in at least two of the practice's core areas of work: carve-outs, integrations and wider value creation, gained in an advisory or professional services context.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to adapt your style for different stakeholders, plus strong analytical skills and project, change management or transformation capability.

What's on Offer?

• Work directly with Directors and Partners on carve-out, integration and value creation engagements for corporates and private equity investors.
• Join single client teams that draw on specialists across technology, financial due diligence, corporate finance, tax, financial modelling and restructuring, in the UK and internationally.
• Gain exposure to a different mix of deals every time, with a practical focus on what makes a difference for clients.
• Help to run and grow a specialist practice, with the chance to lead internal initiatives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced value creation professional to step into a senior delivery role, combining carve-out, integration and value creation expertise with client ownership, business development and team leadership responsibility within a well-regarded advisory practice.