Senior Manager - Financial Diligence - Financial Services, London

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Senior Manager – Financial Diligence, Financial Services, London The UK Financial Services Financial Diligence team at EY currently has exciting opportunities. You’ll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a variety of high profile IPOs and transactions. You’ll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

The opportunity We help corporate and financial clients to meet their strategic goals, whether they are acquiring, divesting or raising finance. We work with a range of clients, from UK entrepreneur led businesses to the largest global enterprises across financial services, often on complex assignments that involve working with colleagues across a variety of disciplines and jurisdictions. Our clients include leading global companies across the Insurance, Banking & Capital Markets and Asset Management industries as well as private equity, central banks and Government treasury departments.

Our core work is due diligence, assessing a target company’s finances and business projections, identifying opportunities, risks, sensitivities and potential mitigations, and reporting on these to our clients, their banks, investors and other parties.

You will be working alongside experienced due diligence professionals, where you will continue to develop your skills to perform due diligence in a range of situations and sectors. There is the opportunity for travel, both within the UK and potentially internationally. When working on projects you will almost always be working as part of a wider cross service line team.

Role Responsibilities In your role as a Senior Manager you will have responsibility for understanding the key business drivers, co-developing our approach with the client, agreeing value measurements with the client, providing value to the client through insights, factual conclusions and advice. You will project manage teams and work closely with all members as well as forming strong internal links within Financial Diligence and other departments in EY both in the UK and internationally to form multi-disciplinary teams. You will gather, verify and assess information to formulate views as well as plan, prepare and review deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations and discussions with the client. In addition, you will:

• Plan and monitor the progress of the team
• Share your technical and other knowledge with your team and the department
• Build on and develop internal and external networks through personal contacts
• Understand the capabilities of the firm and look for opportunities to sell additional services to our clients
• Play a role in business plan initiatives (e.g. key accounts, recruitment, client service framework)
• Be a true business advisor to the client and establish yourself as a key client contact
• Take responsibility for your own learning and development, provide coaching and support to others, and participate in upward feedback

Skills And Attributes For Success

• Be able to gather, verify and analyse information to formulate views and conclusions
• Demonstrable experience in planning, preparing and reviewing deliverables in various forms including written reports, presentations and discussions with the client
• Offer a supportive culture to junior members of the team, assisting their development

To qualify for the role you must have

• Business Development experience
• An ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification
• Strong commercial experience or transaction experience (including financial due diligence experience)
• Financial services experience as developed working with or for companies across the Insurance, Banking & Capital Markets and Asset Management sectors
• A passion for providing high quality service to your clients

Ideally you’ll also have

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Project management skills
• Strong time management skills and the ability to remain calm under pressure to meet deadlines
• A collaborative approach with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels
• Counselling s…