Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• The role of the Senior Manager would be to assist in origination and manage the execution of public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures across all industry sectors, various types of capital raising transactions across South African (and Sub-Saharan Africa).
• We are looking for a Deal Advisory Senior Manager to provide strategic, unbiased and objective transactions support services to our clients. This would include providing valuations services to both Advisory clients as well as Audit clients as a specialist supporting the audit. The resource should also be able to lead all service offerings of Deal Advisory.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading deal advisory engagements including liaising with the client and managing the engagement team
• Providing on the job valuations training to colleagues on the engagement team
• Preparing valuations, M&A and TS reports
• Reviewing reports
• Presenting conclusions and reports to C-level executives
• Preparing tailored proposals
• Completing risk management procedures from inception up to acceptance of engagements
• Managing work-in-progress, billing and collection of invoices

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines self starter
• Ability to deal with individuals across all levels
• Strong client focus
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with people at all levels
• Ability to work independently whilst producing and delivering results
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (writing, etc)
• Pro-active and efficient
• Strong business acumen

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• B-Com degree or equivalent graduate qualification;
• CA(SA), CIMA or CFA qualification
• Minimum 6 years deal advisory experience
• Proven experience in project coordination and implementation
• Proven experience in supervising and coaching junior colleagues
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)