Director TAG (Transaction Advisory Group)

Description

Team Profile:

Alvarez & Marsal’s Transaction Advisory Group (TAG) works with strategic players across industries and PE community. TAG focuses on providing potential clients with an understanding of company’s

• Sustainable economic earnings
• Historical sales and operating expense trends
• Working capital needs
• Key assumptions used in management’s forecast
• Key personnel and accounting information systems

TAG covers quality of earnings (over/understated assets and liabilities, post-closing cost structure changes), trend analysis (key market drivers, sales strategies, customer relationships and customer churn) and qualitative observations like company’s internal control structure, management and accounting team, and accounting information system.

Job Roles & Responsibilities:

Project Management

• Timely set up project codes
• Develop efficient financial/commercial due diligence workplan for the team
• Ensure early involvement of seniors on the assignment to develop the initial hypothesis
• Ensure assignments are completed within budgeted time
• Ensure actions on feedback by clients/seniors

Due Diligence

• Ensure that all the work products are zero-defect and review-ready
• Develop a quick understanding of clients’ businesses and its derivers
• Compile full data book with no supervision
• Complete complex sections of report with supervision
• Strictly ensure the timely delivery of all work products
• Understand deal dynamics/ valuation concerns
• Prioritize several projects and assignments while meeting tight deadline

Business Development

• Identify specific contacts and build a relationship
• Prepare pitches and lead with the overall A&M service offerings in mind
• Generate leads and pitch independently

Team Work

• Proactively ensure that skills and capabilities of the team are growing
• Share learnings of each project with group in the form of case study
• Develop constructive working relationships with the team and assist team during time crunch
• Provide timely and constructive feedback to team members at the end each assignment
• Effectively lead discussions with client and team

Qualifications:

Chartered Accountant (CA) or equivalent (e.g., accounting degree or economics degree and CFE credential) /MBA or equivalent master’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Economics or Mathematics from premium institutes required (preferred IIM / ISB / IIT / NIT)

Experience:

• Required
• 11–15 years relevant experience in financial/ commercial due diligence engagements

Location: Mumbai/Delhi

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