Director - Transaction Services - TMT

Cambridge Credentials; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic Recruitment Director to lead financial due diligence in the TMT sector. This role involves engaging with senior clients, driving business development, and managing risks effectively. The ideal candidate will have a strong academic background, extensive experience in financial due diligence, and a proven ability to build lasting client relationships. Join a supportive and collaborative culture that values autonomy and personal development, while contributing to exciting projects in a rapidly evolving environment. This is an exciting opportunity for someone ready to make a significant impact in a leading advisory firm.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background with ACA or equivalent is highly desirable.
• Extensive experience in financial due diligence with a focus on TMT sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple transactional engagements in dynamic environments.
• Develop and sustain relationships with senior management teams.
• Coach and manage performance of junior staff.

Skills

Financial Due Diligence

Business Development

Client Relationship Management

Risk Management

Team Development

Excellent Communication Skills

Commercial Mindset

Education

ACA or equivalent

Job description

Recruitment Director - Placing high performing candidates in to a wide range of deal advisory positions within consulting

Our client, a leading global advisory firm, is seeking a senior TMT focused financial due diligence professional as a result of growth within their Transaction Services TMT team. This team advises clients, both Corporate and Private Equity, on buy side, sell side, IPOs and refinancing projects.

We have recruited for this firm for 9 years and can say, with confidence, they offer a supportive and collaborative culture and allow for flexible working options for a wide range of candidate situations.

They are seeking an outstanding individual with the vision to help grow and deliver their growing client base. The role is for an experienced transaction services professional, and will involve applying a transactions and financial due diligence skill-set to client opportunities. They envisage that the successful candidate will have:

• Specific experience of the TMT sector and large and complex transactions will be highly regarded.
• Ideally, have a strong range of existing business relationships with Software, Technology and Media businesses and trusted relationships across the sector and the deal community more broadly, e.g. Investment Banks, Industry Bodies;
• Need to be a “self-starter”, as the role requires a good deal of autonomy.

Key responsibilities:

• Engagement leadership: leading multiple transactional engagements in ambiguous and rapidly changing environments;
• Business development: building, commercialising and sustaining relationships with senior management teams for the benefit of the Firm;
• Leading Deal Advisory relationships with specific clients and identified key accounts, specifically in the TMT sector, and focusing on ‘must win’ opportunities;
• Risk management: managing risks appropriately and ensuring the Firm's risk management frameworks are implemented appropriately and effectively;
• Team development: identifying and bringing on new team members, with particular emphasis on coaching and skills transfer;
• Personal development: participating in the career and skills development of more junior staff and acting as a role model with colleagues and clients by living the values of the Firm;
• Performance management: being responsible for coaching and performance management of a small number of more junior staff.

Required skills & qualifications:

• Strong academic and numerate background (ACA or equivalent highly desirable);
• Extensive experience of winning and delivering engagements with a financial due diligence lead perspective, but with a track record of using this to drive one-firm opportunities;
• The ability to talk credibly to, and evidence of working successfully with, senior management at clients on the key issues facing their respective industries, and their business more generally, and to understand their strategies with a view to identifying relevant transaction opportunities;
• The ability to develop strong client relationships and a proven track record of developing and commercialising new relationships, with particular emphasis on developing new relationships (outright or within clients with existing coverage);
• A commercial mind-set, with the ability to maximise revenue opportunities for the whole of the Firm;
• A high degree of resilience and a willingness to work under extreme pressure in rapidly changing situations, as well as sometimes with significant autonomy;
• Strong personal impact, and comfortable dealing with senior and C suite level stakeholders (inside and outside the Firm);
• Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.

We look forward to your response.

Seniority level

Director

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Finance, Consulting, and Accounting/Auditing

Industries

Business Consulting and Services, Technology, Information and Media, and Telecommunications