Senior Associate - Transaction Services

PwC; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global professional services firm in Kuala Lumpur is seeking a Senior Associate to provide financial due diligence and support M&A transactions. This role involves analyzing business plans and financial information, developing client relationships, and providing strategic support during negotiations. We require individuals with 3-4 years of experience and strong analytical abilities. This position offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for leadership development.

Qualifications

• 3-4 years of working experience in financial due diligence or external audit.
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to understand key business drivers.
• Strong communication skills in both oral and written English.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial due diligence, vendor assistance, negotiation support, and deal structuring for M&A transactions.
• Develop an understanding of the target business and its drivers.
• Review and analyze historical trading, cash flow, and balance sheets.

Skills

Financial due diligence

Analytical skills

Leadership

Teamwork

Client servicing

Communication in English

Education

Degree in any discipline

Professional accounting qualification (ICAEW / ACCA / MICPA-CAANZ / CPA Australia)

Job description

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals.

In transaction services at PwC, you will provide strategic advice and support to clients in their mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Your work will include conducting due diligence, financial analysis, and managing the transaction process.

In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be an authentic and inclusive leader, at all grades/levels and in all lines of service. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Provide financial due diligence, vendor assistance, negotiation support and deal structuring for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions within and outside Malaysia for both corporate and private equity clients.

Key activities of the role include:

• Quickly developing an understanding of the target business and its drivers
• Interpretation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
• Review and analysis of historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets
• Review and analysis of projections, and underlying assumptions
• Review of the adequacy of working capital facilities, including consideration of financing limits, term and covenants
• Evaluation of potential synergies
• Reporting of potential key issues for our client including identification of risk or price affecting considerations
• Review of sale and purchase agreement and correlating findings of due diligence process therein
• Review of financial structures and associated credit agreements

Requirements

• 3-4 years of working experience in financial due diligence or external audit
• Degree in any discipline and/or a professional accounting qualification such as the ICAEW / ACCA /MICPA-CAANZ / CPA Australia
• Strong analytical skills and an ability to understand key business drivers
• Strong leadership, teamwork and client servicing skills
• Strong communication skills in both oral and written English

Additional application instructions

Please attach following documents along with your CV when you submit an online application:

• Certificate and Transcripts from SPM onwards
• A copy of your NRIC or passport
• Recent passport size picture

Travel Requirements: Up to 40%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?: No

Government Clearance Required?: Yes