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Assistant Director, Transactions Advisory Group

Location: Milan, Italy
Date Posted: Jan 9, 2025

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Assistant Director

Global Transaction Advisory Group

Alvarez & Marsal

Milan

About us

Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) is a global consulting firm with more than $3+ billion in revenues, c.9,000+ staff and over 80 offices worldwide. We offer a broad range of professional services including Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services.

We would like to invite you to join Alvarez & Marsal’s dynamic Transaction Advisory team. Our award-winning practice includes over 1,000 professionals in over 40 offices across the United States, Middle East, Europe, Latin America, India and Asia Pacific. We work for premium clients on a selection of deals sector wide. Our Transactions Advisory team have established Alvarez & Marsal as one of the leading providers of financial due diligence globally and the leading firm to develop a fulfilling career in Transaction Advisory.

Alvarez & Marsal’s employees benefit from joining a large network and employee resource groups such as supporting the LGBQT+ community, A&M Young Professionals, EMEA Women’s Network, The Multicultural Network, A&M Parents & Carers Community Group and offering support to those who identify as neurodivergent. Other benefits include but are not limited to flexible working, Bupa medical insurance, pension plan, maternity / paternity leave and access to our Employee Assistance Programme. We are committed to creating a welcoming, diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.

Alvarez & Marsal’s employees benefit from joining a large network and employee resource groups such as supporting the LGBQT+ community, A&M Young Professionals, EMEA Women’s Network, The Multicultural Network, A&M Parents & Carers Community Group and offering support to those who identify as neurodivergent. Other benefits include but are not limited to flexible working, Bupa medical insurance, pension plan, maternity / paternity leave and access to our Employee Assistance Programme. We are committed to creating a welcoming, diverse and inclusive environment for everyone.

Our values

Alvarez & Marsal’s core values lead the day-to-day decision-making practices, we work hard to uphold these values and remain true to our ethos of:

  • Fun
  • Personal Reward
  • Quality
  • Objectivity
  • Integrity
  • Inclusive Diversity

What we do

A&M provides investors and lenders the answers needed to get the deal done. We combine our firm’s deep operational, industry and functional resources with quality financial accounting and tax expertise to assess key deal drivers and focus on the root cause of any critical deal issues. The largest Transaction Advisory practice outside the Big Four, our global integrated teams help private equity, hedge fund and corporate acquirers unlock value across the investment cycle.

The role 

We are growing and continue to expand our established team in Milan, we are looking to hire an Assistant Director with experience in Transactions Advisory and who can support our Managing Directors and wider teams and can deliver on UK and pan European projects to our clients.

As part of our highly skilled team, the successful individual will;

  • Have the opportunity to internally network with our other service lines and attend external marketing events to build their professional community
  • Engage teams and deliver focused Transaction Advisory projects, working closely with our Managing Directors
  • Evaluate potential transactions in the context of a clients’ investment strategy
  • Assist with financial due diligence and help to identify key risks against industry benchmarks
  • Gain broad industry exposure working with a variety of large-cap and mid-cap private equity houses, corporate clients and financial institutions
  • Expand the commercial aspects of your financial analysis skills and gain insight on key drivers and valuation considerations that drive a transaction
  • Collaborate with operational and commercial professionals in combined project teams to enhance your knowledge of the broader due diligence and wider deal process
  • Help develop junior colleagues while befitting from established formal and informal training programme and mentorship

Alvarez & Marsal is an environment that presents a real opportunity for motivated individuals as all employees are encouraged to develop their client network and grow their business development skills. Our team is rewarded in terms of an attractive remuneration package and the opportunity to fast track their Transactions Advisory career.

Our base salaries are highly competitive and bonuses are un-capped. Employees are rewarded for their contribution to growing both TAG and the broader business.

Essential experience:

  • Qualified accountant and/or an exceptional academic record
  • Proven senior level experience in Transaction Advisory / Financial Due Diligence is essential in addition to experience across Private Equity and/ or blue-chip Corporates
  • Trained at a Big 4 firm or an established Transaction Advisory (Transaction Services) practice
  • Fluent business level English and Italian is essential. Additional European language skills including French, German, Dutch, Swedish or Spanish are highly desirable

A&M’s deep operational and industry expertise provides TAG with a unique opportunity to perform more insightful due diligence by providing an integrated and differentiated approach enabling us to deliver more value to our clients. We are free from audit conflicts and our platform is less restrictive, enabling us to operate cross-border seamlessly.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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