Transactions Services, Financial Due Diligence - Senior Manager

Job summary

The Senior Manager will lead financial due diligence engagements, managing project workstreams and delivering commercially focused insights to clients. They are responsible for overseeing the preparation of high-quality reports and fostering relationships with senior stakeholders and private equity investors.

Job details

About the role: As a Senior Manager in Financial Due Diligence, you’ll play a key leadership role in delivering high-quality analysis, managing complex projects, and shaping the insights that guide client decisions. You’ll lead teams through the review of financial and commercial performance, assess key deal drivers and value-creation levers, and communicate findings clearly and effectively to senior stakeholders. You’ll interact directly with senior management teams, business owners and private equity investors, developing trusted advisor relationships and bringing clarity to fast-moving, high-stakes situations. You’ll also contribute to the growth of the practice: developing people, building sector knowledge, expanding internal and external networks, and helping identify opportunities to support clients across the deal lifecycle. What your days will look like: Shaping engagement scope, leading the financial due diligence workstream and driving project management Leading engagements for corporate and private equity clients, including liaising with other diligence workstreams and advisors. Delivering clear, commercially focused insights that support clients’ value creation hypotheses. Managing the preparation of high-quality diligence reports for our clients & overseeing analysis of historical and forecast performance, cash flows, working capital, and key business drivers. The role is for you if: Must possess an ACA Qualification (or an international equivalent) or have equivalent work experience. This includes international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country. Strong financial due diligence experience in a deals, advisory or related environment. Excellent analytical capability with the ability to interpret financial information in a commercial, value-creation context. Ability to identify key drivers, risks, deal breakers and commercial implications. Sound commercial judgement with the ability to link financial insights to broader deal strategy. Comfortable navigating complex issues, asking thoughtful questions and shaping the story for clients. What you’ll receive from us: No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions. We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.

What you’ll do

The Senior Manager will lead financial due diligence engagements, managing project workstreams and delivering commercially focused insights to clients. They are responsible for overseeing the preparation of high-quality reports and fostering relationships with senior stakeholders and private equity investors.

Requirements

Candidates must possess an ACA qualification or an international equivalent with significant experience in financial due diligence. Strong analytical capabilities and the ability to link financial data to broader deal strategy are essential for this leadership role.

Benefits

• Empowered flexibility • Private medical cover • Virtual GP access • Volunteering days

Listed skills

• Financial Reporting · Preferred
• Financial analysis · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred
• Stakeholder Management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Financial due diligence
• Project management
• Financial analysis
• Commercial performance review
• Stakeholder management
• Value creation
• Cash flow analysis
• Working capital analysis
• Strategic advisory
• Risk assessment
• Deal strategy
• Financial reporting
• Quality Analysis
• Management
• Training And Development
• Due Diligence
• Forecasting
• Cash Flows
• Leadership
• Project Management
• Working Capital
• Private Equity
• Relationship Building
• Value Creation

Job areas

• Finance & Accounting
• Consulting
• Management & Leadership
• Due Diligence Manager
• Financial Manager (General)
• Finance Managers
• Financial Managers