Director / Senior Director - Transaction Advisory

Director / Senior Director - Transaction Advisory

Manager / Team Leader

Description
Director / Senior Director
Global Transaction Advisory Group
Alvarez & Marsal
Milan

About us
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.

With over 10,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M's restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.

We would like to invite you to join Alvarez & Marsal's dynamic Transaction Advisory team. Our award-winning practice includes over 1,000 professionals in over 40 offices across the United States, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, India and Asia Pacific. We work for premium clients on a selection of deals sector wide. Our Transactions Advisory team have established Alvarez & Marsal as one of the leading providers of financial due diligence globally and the leading firm to develop a fulfilling career in Transaction Advisory.

Our values
Alvarez & Marsal's core values lead the day-to-day decision-making practices, we work hard to uphold these values and remain true to our ethos of:

1. Integrity
2. Objectivity
3. Quality
4. Inclusive Diversity
5. Fun
6. Personal Reward

What we do
A&M provides investors and lenders the answers needed to get the deal done. We combine our firm's deep operational, industry and functional resources with quality financial accounting and tax expertise to assess key deal drivers and focus on the root cause of any critical deal issues.

The largest Transaction Advisory practice outside the Big Four, our global integrated teams help private equity, hedge fund and corporate acquirers unlock value across the investment cycle.

The role
We are growing and continue to expand our established team in Milan, we are looking to hire a Director / Senior Director with experience in Transactions Advisory and who can support our Managing Directors and wider teams and can deliver on Italian and pan European projects to our clients.

As part of our highly skilled team, the successful individual will:

1. Lead teams and deliver complex Transaction Advisory engagements, working closely with our Managing Directors
2. Evaluate potential transactions in the context of a clients' investment strategy, assist with financial due diligence & help to identify key risks and potential deal breakers, assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the business against industry benchmarks
3. Gain broad industry exposure working with a variety of large-cap and mid-cap PE houses, corporate clients and financial institutions
4. Have the opportunity to use the commercial aspects of your financial analysis skills, as well as being given exposure to the key drivers and valuation considerations which drive a transaction
5. Work closely with operational and commercial professionals in combined project teams enhancing your understanding of the broader due diligence and wider deal process
6. Coach & develop more junior colleagues
7. Internally network with our other service lines and work on external marketing events to build your network internally & externally

Alvarez & Marsal is an environment that presents a real opportunity for motivated individuals as all employees are encouraged to develop their client network and grow their business development skills. Our team is rewarded in terms of an attractive remuneration package and the opportunity to fast track their Transactions Advisory career.

Essential experience:

1. Qualified accountant and/or an exceptional academic record
2. Proven senior level experience in Transaction Advisory / Financial Due Diligence (Transaction services) is essential in addition to experience across Private Equity and/ or blue-chip Corporates
3. Trained at a Big 4 firm or an established Transaction Advisory (Transaction Services) practice
4. Native in Italian is a preference but not a requirement and fluent business level English is essential. Additional European language skills including French, German, Dutch, Swedish or Spanish are highly desirable

Diversity & Inclusion
A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
It is Alvarez & Marsal's practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.