Director, M&A, Financial Due Diligence - Private Equity

Deloitte LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in London seeks a Director for M&A, Financial Due Diligence specializing in Private Equity. The role emphasizes leadership on engagements, building client relationships, and managing junior staff. Candidates should have a strong background in corporate transactions, exceptional analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel. The company promotes flexibility and values diverse teams, offering opportunities for professional growth and impact within the organization.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience writing and reviewing concise, high-quality reports.
• Strong understanding of risk management principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead on multiple engagements and manage overall progress.
• Build and maintain commercial relationships with senior external stakeholders.
• Coach and train junior members of the team.

Skills

Experience of winning and delivering corporate and private equity transactions

Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills

Fluency in a foreign language

Strong commercial acumen and market awareness

Excellent communication skills

Education

Exceptional academic background or equivalent experience

Tools

Advanced excel skills

Job description

Director, M&A, Financial Due Diligence – Private Equity

Basic information

Location: London

Business Line: Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

Job Type: Permanent / FTC

Date published: 15-Dec-2025

Connect to your Industry

Working on high profile assignments with some of the best in the field, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects, predominantly for private equity and private equity backed businesses, within a highly commercial, client focused environment.

Our core services comprise financial vendor and acquisition due diligence. We work on both UK and international assignments involving cross-border as well as cross-service line teams requiring our people to build wide networks across both the UK and International firm.

Typically, we work within a wider deal team which accesses the firm's vast range of specialist expertise including commercial and operational due diligence, sale and purchase agreement negotiation, treasury, pensions, modelling, merger integration, IT and business intelligence.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

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Connect to your opportunity

Our team provides clients with dedicated financial support for a transaction or potential transaction. Typically, this involves the investigation of the target from a variety of perspectives to ensure significant value items, risks and other matters have been identified and considered by our client and assisting them in making an informed decision regarding the transaction.

Responsibilities

• Lead on multiple engagements, leading client interactions and managing overall progress of engagements across all workstreams
• Build and maintain commercial relationships with senior external stakeholders at existing and target clients
• Coach and train junior members of the team, as well as lead the financial due diligence workstream
• Manage all stakeholders such as clients, other Deloitte service leads and to the extent relevant, overseas teams
• Quickly develop an understanding of the target business and its drivers
• Interpret and analyse information memoranda, business plans and publicly available information on the target business
• Review and analyse historical financial information, including historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets
• Review and analyse projections and the underlying assumptions
• Review the sale and purchase agreement and correlate findings of due diligence process therein
• Manage project deadlines and economics
• Have a strong emphasis on coaching and developing team members, being responsible for performance management of team members
• Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Report and present key issues to our clients, including identification of risk or price affecting considerations arising from our work
• Lead and develop service offerings and evolving propositions to drive practice growth

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Essential skills and experience

• Experience of winning and delivering corporate and private equity transactions
• Extensive experience of operating with and presenting to senior level stakeholders both internally and externally
• Exceptional academic background or equivalent experience
• Proven ability in leading business development, from opportunity identification to conversion into sales, including developing and maintaining strong client relationships
• Extensive experience writing and reviewing concise, high-quality reports, with appropriate focus on attention to detail and effectively communicating complex financial information
• Strong understanding of risk management principles and processes to ensure appropriate implementation
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify, analyse, and resolve complex issues efficiently and effectively
• Advanced excel skills, including working with Power Pivot, to efficiently analyse and interpret large data sets to provide insightful conclusions
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Flexibility for international travel

Desirable skills and experience

• Fluency in a foreign language would be an advantage
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
• Understanding and practical application of AI tools within a financial due diligence context.
• Strong client focus - be focussed on high quality service

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