Manager - M&A Transaction Services

Job Requisition ID: 41338

Are you an experienced M&A Transaction Services professional who wants to take their M&A career to the next level? Join a market-leading team advising top-tier corporates and global private equity investors on significant M&A transactions in Australia.

About the team

Our Melbourne M&A Transaction Services team focusses on providing strategic insights and advice to market leading clients across a range of sectors, at all stages of the M&A lifecycle. From pre-transaction analysis and due diligence to advising on strategic growth and funding initiatives during the investment ownership period and ultimately to exit. Our team see transactions from end to end.

What will your typical day look like?

As a Manager, you will play a key role in driving the delivery of engagements and help your clients execute complex transactions. You’ll deliver commercial and financial insights through pre-acquisition analysis, financial due diligence, forecast reviews, and leveraging your general financial analysis skills. You’ll also have access to Deloitte M&A’s extensive accelerators and assets, including our iDeal M&A analytics platform and our proprietary AI (AI Analyst).

In this role, you will:

• Advise leading Australian and global corporate and private equity investors on a wide variety of complex and challenging transactions.
• Develop a deep understanding of the target business and its drivers.
• Analyse information memoranda, business plans, and publicly available information.
• Review historical trading, quality of earnings, cash flow, working capital, net debt, capital expenditure, forecasts, and underlying assumptions through discussions with management teams.
• Report potential key issues for clients, including identification of risks or price factors impacting investment decisions.
• Review sale and purchase agreements and financial models.
• Mentor and coach a team of high-performing practitioners.
• Develop your skills to build our brand in the market through business development opportunities with existing and targeted clients.

Enough about us, let’s talk about you.

To excel in this role, you should be a highly motivated and talented performer, looking to join a leading Transaction Services M&A practice. Your skills and experience should include:

• Undergraduate degree in finance and/or accounting; Postgraduate qualification e.g. CA, CFA, Masters in Applied Finance or MBA.
• Solid experience in performing financial due diligence assignments in a transaction environment or similar complex financial assignments, or business combination experience gained through the audit of acquisitive businesses.
• Experience with large data sets and analytical tools is an advantage.
• Strong familiarity with the broader deal-oriented process and environment.
• Structured thinker with analytical and financial skills to work on complex financial transactions.

Why Deloitte?

At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world.

We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong.

We prioritise flexibility and choice. At Deloitte, you get trust on Day 1. We know our people get their best work done when they’re in control of where and how they work, designing their work week around their client, team and personal commitments.

We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of perks and benefits, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package.

Next Steps

Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you!

By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally. The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.