Financial Due Diligence | TS | Assistant Manager

Interpath Advisory is an international and fast-growing advisory business with expertise across deals, advisory and restructuring.

We offer the full spectrum of restructuring services from business performance improvement and value creation through to stress, distress and insolvency offerings. Our advisory practice consists of corporate finance, transaction services, valuations, debt advisory, tax, pensions, forensic accounting and e-discovery services.

Our teams combine specialist technical knowledge with deep sector experience to help businesses, investors and stakeholders navigate complex financial challenges and make critical decisions.

The team

This role sits in Interpath's Transaction Services practice. You will work on financial due diligence for buy-side and sell-side transactions alongside Interpath Global deal teams, on engagements.

The role

You will build the underlying analysis that every conclusion in the report rests on — accurately, and on time.

What you will be doing

• Take ownership of defined areas of analysis within a workstream and see them through to a reviewable standard.
• Build the underlying financial analysis on which the team's conclusions rest, covering trading performance, margins and other key measures.
• Prepare working capital, net debt and other supporting schedules and exhibits.
• Reconcile the analysis back to source records, including management accounts, statutory accounts and the trial balance.
• Prepare tables and charts for the report to the standard the team requires.
• Maintain the information request list and flag items that have not been received.
• Support the question-and-answer process and help prepare for management meetings.
• Address review points properly, resolving the underlying issue rather than the symptom.
• Raise issues as soon as they arise. An anomaly that cannot be explained is a finding, not an inconvenience.

What we are looking for

• Qualified accountant or finalist — CA (ICAI), CA (SA), ACA, ACCA or equivalent OR MBA in Finance or equivalent.
• Around 5 to 8 years of experience, of which at least 3 in financial due diligence, or in audit with genuine deals exposure.
• A sound working command of quality of earnings, net debt and working capital analysis.
• Strong Excel skills. Accuracy under time pressure is central to the role.
• Understands the purpose of a quality of earnings analysis, not only the mechanics of preparing one.
• Clear written English.
• Responds constructively to review and acts on the feedback given.

What would also help

• Big Four audit or transaction services background.
• Exposure to MS Excel, Alteryx, Power Query or Power BI.
• CFA Level I or progress towards it.
• Experience working to UK or European reporting conventions.

How we will assess you

A screening call, a technical interview, a case study, and a conversation with the Transaction Services lead you will be working with. We will tell you where you stand after each stage.

Our Values:

Embrace different: - From cultures to mindsets, we welcome them all. Our global presence means we’re inclusive by nature and we believe that people are equal, but not the same.

Do the right thing: - Our comfort zone is uncomfortable; we always make the right decision not what is simply easy or popular. Always consider how to implement these decisions, people will always remember how you made them feel.

All hands on deck: - We stand shoulder to shoulder with colleagues and clients, be that physically or from afar. Our individual expertise may find them answers, but it is through teamwork that it is implemented.

Passion drives success: - The impossible is always possible, we push the boundaries of what is expected because we’re never satisfied with the status quo. Our clients expect a positive result when they engage with us, and it’s only by delivering this that we win.