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Assistant Manager
Date: Sep 11, 2019
Location: London, United Kingdom
Company: KPMG UK
Job Description
Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 400 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.
Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda.
Due to the increase in the number of transactions in Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) sector we have an immediate need for assistant managers to join our ENR team to support the growth of our business.
Key responsibilities in this role include:
Interaction with counterparties to a transaction
The individual will have to:
- Participate in conference calls and face-to-face meetings with targets’ management, clients and bidders, including assistance with preparing call agendas and Q&A registers, keeping and circulating minutes as a result of the calls/meetings.
- Assist with preparation of the information request lists and subsequent maintenance of their status update. This also includes follow-up of the new information coming in, in particular via Virtual Data Rooms.
Team work, coaching and developing people
The individual will have to:
- Coach and manage junior staff members (E-grades), providing constructive feedback when requested and liaising junior staff with senior team members.
- Perform initial review of the tasks performed by junior team members and KGS.
- Liaise with other work streams (tax, legal, IT etc.) for effective delivery.
Delivering quality service
Among other responsibilities the individual will have to:
- Perform detailed analysis of financial statements, including audited financial statements, management accounts and primary documents when requested.
- Search for and extraction of publicly available financial information (including Companies House, Fame, LexisNexis and other platforms).
- Process underlying data for analysis of balance sheet (including but not limited to non-current assets, working capital and indebtedness), income statement (including but not limited to gross profit and EBITDA elements) and cash flow.
- Process data for preparation of underlying working capital, underlying earnings and net debt analysis.
- Provide visualised output of the above analysis (e.g. tables, charts, graphs, timelines etc.).
- Analyse financial aspects of the relevant agreements with customers/suppliers for break clauses, change of control clauses liaising with the legal work stream if applicable.
- Analyse financing agreements for covenants and compliance with them.
- Read and analyse Vendor due diligence reports, highlighting key trends, issues and drafting questions to a Vendor due diligence team.
Risk management
Individuals are required to assist in the identification of and management of risks and ensure the Firm's frameworks are implemented:
- Assist with preparation of the project files according to internal Risk Management requirements.
- Assist with engagement set-up, including SAP set-up, creating the opportunity, client and engagement acceptance.
Location:
London
Required Skills and Qualifications
To succeed in this demanding role you will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- ACA, or equivalent recognised financial qualification.
- Practical knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP.
- Experience in the ENR sector, either in a similar role or in a related professional service position in oil & gas in upstream, midstream or downstream segments, and other extractive sectors (i.e. mining).
- Experience in corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions) activities.
- Previous experience in financial due diligence and capital markets reporting.
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret data, generate insights and construct solutions.
- To be competent and demonstrated up-to-date knowledge in respect of financial analysis methodology.
- Strong excel/modelling skills with experience analysing complex financial models.
- Previous experience in an M&A advisory and / or corporate role in the ENR sector will be viewed as a strong positive.
Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 400 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.
Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda.
Due to the increase in the number of transactions in Energy & Natural Resources (ENR) sector we have an immediate need for assistant managers to join our ENR team to support the growth of our business.
Key responsibilities in this role include:
Interaction with counterparties to a transaction
The individual will have to:
- Participate in conference calls and face-to-face meetings with targets’ management, clients and bidders, including assistance with preparing call agendas and Q&A registers, keeping and circulating minutes as a result of the calls/meetings.
- Assist with preparation of the information request lists and subsequent maintenance of their status update. This also includes follow-up of the new information coming in, in particular via Virtual Data Rooms.
Team work, coaching and developing people
The individual will have to:
- Coach and manage junior staff members (E-grades), providing constructive feedback when requested and liaising junior staff with senior team members.
- Perform initial review of the tasks performed by junior team members and KGS.
- Liaise with other work streams (tax, legal, IT etc.) for effective delivery.
Delivering quality service
Among other responsibilities the individual will have to:
- Perform detailed analysis of financial statements, including audited financial statements, management accounts and primary documents when requested.
- Search for and extraction of publicly available financial information (including Companies House, Fame, LexisNexis and other platforms).
- Process underlying data for analysis of balance sheet (including but not limited to non-current assets, working capital and indebtedness), income statement (including but not limited to gross profit and EBITDA elements) and cash flow.
- Process data for preparation of underlying working capital, underlying earnings and net debt analysis.
- Provide visualised output of the above analysis (e.g. tables, charts, graphs, timelines etc.).
- Analyse financial aspects of the relevant agreements with customers/suppliers for break clauses, change of control clauses liaising with the legal work stream if applicable.
- Analyse financing agreements for covenants and compliance with them.
- Read and analyse Vendor due diligence reports, highlighting key trends, issues and drafting questions to a Vendor due diligence team.
Risk management
Individuals are required to assist in the identification of and management of risks and ensure the Firm's frameworks are implemented:
- Assist with preparation of the project files according to internal Risk Management requirements.
- Assist with engagement set-up, including SAP set-up, creating the opportunity, client and engagement acceptance.
Location:
London
Required Skills and Qualifications
To succeed in this demanding role you will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- ACA, or equivalent recognised financial qualification.
- Practical knowledge of IFRS and US GAAP.
- Experience in the ENR sector, either in a similar role or in a related professional service position in oil & gas in upstream, midstream or downstream segments, and other extractive sectors (i.e. mining).
- Experience in corporate finance (mergers and acquisitions) activities.
- Previous experience in financial due diligence and capital markets reporting.
- Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret data, generate insights and construct solutions.
- To be competent and demonstrated up-to-date knowledge in respect of financial analysis methodology.
- Strong excel/modelling skills with experience analysing complex financial models.
- Previous experience in an M&A advisory and / or corporate role in the ENR sector will be viewed as a strong positive.
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