Assistant Manager - Due Diligence

BDO India; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO India is seeking an experienced Due Diligence professional to lead engagements, review financials, and deliver insightful reports. You will manage project teams, liaise with clients, and ensure timely, high-quality outputs across deals in various sectors.

The role emphasizes strong analytical skills, leadership, and proactive risk management within a dynamic deal advisory environment in Mumbai.

Qualifications

• CA qualified with relevant certification.
• Minimum 2.5 years of experience in due diligence.

Responsibilities

• Understand business, market position, and challenges of the target.
• Lead client services as Engagement Manager on assigned deals.
• Oversee project execution, review reports, provide inputs.
• Analyze information memoranda, business plans, and public data.
• Produce high-quality deliverables including Excel/PowerPoint within deadlines.
• Review historical financials, projections, and assumptions.
• Assess EBITDA, working capital, debt and cash flow trends.
• Identify key issues affecting valuation and advise on solutions.
• Build and manage client relationships and ensure risk controls.

Skills

Due Diligence

Engagement Management

Financial Analysis

Team Leadership

Education

CA Qualified

Job description

BDO is a global network of professional services firms with a presence in over 166 countries, revenue of over USD 14 billion, and experience of over 60 years. Its a leading service provider for the mid-markets with client service at its heart.

BDO India Services Private Limited (or BDO India) is the India member firm of BDO International. BDO India offers strategic, operational, accounting and tax, and regulatory advisory & assistance for both domestic and international organizations across a range of industries. BDO India is led by more than 300+ Partners & Directors with a team of over 10,000 professionals operating across 14 cities and 20 offices. We expect to grow sizably in the coming 3-5 years, adding various dimensions to our business and multiplying and increasing the current team size multi-fold

About Due Diligence:

We at BDO India, we carry out a procedure review based on verification of records and meetings conducted with key persons, along with an extensive analysis of data and information. We not only verify compliances and highlight potential risks and liabilities but also provide key inputs for structuring your transaction.

Education & Qualification:

• CA Qualified
• Minimum 2.5 Years of experience in Due Diligence

Core Due Diligence role & responsibilities:

• Developing an understanding of the business, competitive positioning, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges etc. of the target business
• Lead role in execution of client services as Engagement manager
• Leading the team during project execution, reviewing the report and providing value add inputs
• Interpretation, evaluation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
• Production of quality deliverables (including Excel and Power Point documents) within agreed timescales, briefing Partner/Director/Senior Manager accordingly. On larger deals this may involve responsibility for the production of discrete sections. This will include:
• Review and analysis of historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets
• Review and analysis of projections, and underlying assumptions
• Evaluate the operating trends, quality of earnings, maintainability of EBITDA, working capital & cash flows considerations, net debt etc.
• Identifying key issues related to deal, assessing their impact on valuation/ price consideration and advising on ways to address the issues
• Create and manage good independent relationships with clients.
• To ensure compliance with risk management procedures and activities
• Be able to proactively resolve (with Partner support) risk issues in delivering services to clients
• Strong contribution to knowledge sharing efforts, review and continually improve processes so that the team and firm capture and leverage knowledge
• Should be able to build and manage a team effectively and be a strong role model, mentor and coach
• Working on Business development, proposals and cost estimates