Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate

Grant Thornton International Ltd; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate, where you'll play a pivotal role in middle-market transactions. This position empowers you to help clients navigate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures while providing insightful financial analysis and tailored advisory reports. You'll leverage your expertise in accounting and transaction advisory services to lead projects, mentor associates, and contribute to business development efforts. With a focus on achieving client visions and personal growth, this role offers a collaborative environment where your contributions are valued and impactful. If you're ready to make a difference in a rapidly growing practice, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 2-6 years of experience in consulting or transaction advisory.
• Strong knowledge of US GAAP, GAAS, and SEC Reporting.

Responsibilities

• Perform financial due diligence on key financial statements.
• Lead analysis on operational data and prepare reports for clients.
• Supervise and mentor associates in their professional development.

Skills

Accounting

Audit

Transaction Advisory Services

Leadership Skills

Interpersonal Communication

Business Development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting

Advanced degree

Job description

As a Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate, you’ll focus on middle-market transactions, serving dynamic organizations with experienced professionals who bring a full range of advisory services to validate, optimize and create value for the Transaction Advisory Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. Our Financial Due Diligence solution is comprised of several integrated capabilities that support our clients' needs throughout the transaction lifecycle.

From day one, you’ll be empowered to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

1. Perform in buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory engagements, providing carve-outs and similar services to clients, private equity investors, and asset-based lenders.
2. Help organizations realize the potential of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures as well as various transactions within the capital markets.
3. Perform financial due diligence on key areas of the Income Statement and Balance Sheet.
4. Formulate questions and propose basic adjustments based on the identification of key risks and business drivers.
5. Lead analysis on key operational data, net working capital, debt, and debt-like items.
6. Lead initial drafts of reports (including Quality of Earnings reports) for clients that highlight the key financial findings of potential investments as well as the drivers behind sustainable profits and cash flows.
7. Create and design tailored transaction advisory reports specific to key issues such as normalized earnings, valuation model input assumptions, achievability of management's budget, indebtedness considerations, borrowing base calculations, and/or business combinations and carve-out financial statements.
8. Team with partners and senior managers on proposals and business development calls.
9. Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
10. Supervise, train and mentor associates.
11. Assess performance of associates for engagement and year-end reviews.
12. Other duties as assigned.

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:

1. Bachelor's degree in Accounting or related field required, advanced degree preferred.
2. 2 to 6 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level required.
3. CPA preferred or CPA in process preferred.
4. Solid experience in the following: accounting, audit, or transaction advisory services.
5. Strong current knowledge in US GAAP, GAAS, SEC Reporting, transaction advisory services or mergers and acquisitions.
6. Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice.
7. Strong leadership, business development, recruitment, training, and mentoring skills.
8. Excellent written, presentation, leadership, and interpersonal communications skills.
9. Prior relevant consulting experience preferred.
10. Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 25%.

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Los Angeles, CA office is between $103,000 and $156,000.

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Chicago, IL office is between $96,000 and $144,000.