Corporate Development – Financial Due Diligence Specialist

Job Description

• Corporate Development – Financial Due Diligence Specialist plays a key role in Accenture’s inorganic growth strategies.
• Work closely with Europe (Iberia) FDD teams, performing high quality diligence and analysis for Accenture’s own acquisitions, joint venture, and equity investments. Possibility of working on front end APAC FDD projects occasionally
• Focus on analyzing the quality of target company earnings, operating metrics, debt and debt-like items and net working capital, which may influence the outcome of the transaction.
• Review, analysis, and preparation of key financial documents from the virtual data room (data book, data pack)
• Working closely with Iberia FDD team to provide advice to the corporate development team related to key deal issues impacting the business case and/or integration.
• Provide continuity/transition to the post-merger integration and operational finance teams post-closing. 
• Shift timings: Flexible (Expected to largely work on European time zone)

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting
• Minimum 4 years’ experience in major (preferably international) accounting/financial firms,
• Alternatively, experience in the M&A teams of major investment banking support firms
• Prior Audit/ Accounting or FDD experience is preferred.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters and/CA Final/ CA Inter/ CS/CMA /CFA

Professional Skills:

• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• VBA/Power BI/Alteryx (Preferred)
• This highly visible position requires exceptional drive and energy, strong financial and analytical skills, project management skills, highly effective verbal and written communications skills.
• Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting.

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