Assurance - Transaction Forensics - Sale & Purchase Agreements - Manager - London

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The opportunity: EY's Forensic and Integrity Services – Sale and Purchase Agreements (SPA) team provides expert support to clients, investment banks, lawyers, and deal teams on Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) pricing mechanisms and the accounting aspects of SPAs, including support around any post-deal Completion Accounts. You will assist clients in their SPA negotiations and will interact with deal teams and clients across the transaction life cycle.

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and deliver advice around the price adjustment mechanisms on M&A transactions, working closely with clients, their bankers and legal advisers, transaction diligence teams, and other SPA team members.
• Analysis of cash, debt and working capital adjustments, preparation of pricing schedules, reviewing and commenting on the financial aspects of the SPA, assisting the client with their preparation or review of Completion Accounts, and performing Leakage reviews.
• Managing and contributing to the delivery of Transaction Forensics engagements, per agreed timeline and budget.
• Adhering to Quality and Risk Management (QRM) to ensure client work is delivered consistently and in compliance with EY's quality standards.
• Supporting negotiations with clients throughout the transaction, agreeing detailed and compelling outputs.
• Providing insightful, deal-relevant points of view and recommendations to the client by leveraging your technical and commercial expertise.
• Building valued relationships with internal contacts and external clients to support development of the engagement pipeline.
• People and performance management, coaching of junior colleagues throughout the performance year.

Skills And Attributes For Success:

• Interpersonal skills and risk management are key as you will be working closely with due diligence teams to identify and mitigate risk for clients, as well as developing a strong internal and external network.
• Fully qualified as a chartered accountant e.g. ACA / ACCA / CA / ICAS / ICAEW or international equivalent.
• Experience coordinating M&A transactions in a managerial capacity.
• Expertise in financial information analysis, including modelling, testing, documenting financial scenarios and anticipating challenges.
• Project management and people management experience.

What We Look For:

• Highly motivated team players who are hands-on and rigorous in their working style, and capable of thriving in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent analytical and negotiation techniques, and a desire to develop their specialist skill set in a high value-add area for corporate and private equity clients.

What We Offer:

• A competitive remuneration package.
• Support for flexible working and career development.
• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note: Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness. The information you provide is kept entirely confidential and will not be used to evaluate your candidacy.