Associate - SaT - TMT - TCF - Financial Diligence

TMT:

Industry convergence offers TMT (Technology, Media & Entertainment, and Telecommunications) organizations the chance to evolve and transform, but it also presents challenges around competitiveness and delivering agile corporate strategies for growth. Content distributors are transforming into content producers, service providers are becoming tech companies, technology companies are the catalyst for dramatic change in every sector, and customers want the latest innovations now.

We help TMT companies create compelling employee and customer experiences, retaining skills and talent while achieving enterprise-wide operational excellence. We help them protect their data, brand and reputation. We also enable the pursuit of M&A strategies that systematically create value, reduce risk and transform TMT companies into powerhouses that will lead the technology revolution of the future.

SaT - TCF - Financial Diligence:

Strategy and Transactions enables clients to reimagine ecosystems, reshape portfolios and reinvent for a better future. Using our Capital Agenda framework, we work with clients to find answers to today's toughest strategic, financial, operational and commercial questions. We help corporates, private equity, governments, sovereign wealth funds, private and family businesses, and educational institutions with their key financial issues. From portfolio review and capital allocation processes to financial planning analytics and decision support, we have the people, analytics and tools to better allocate capital. Our team helps clients manage their risk/return trade-offs to support them with better decision-making around financing and capital efficiency.

Whether clients are preserving, optimizing, raising or investing, our Connected Capital Solutions (CCS) are our five go-to-market offerings that help drive competitive advantage and increased returns through improved decision-making. The CCS include Strategy, Corporate Finance, Buy and Integrate, Sell and Separate and Reshaping Results, and are underpinned by our Connected Capital Technologies.

Our key focus areas are Investment Banking Advisory, Valuations, Modeling and Economics, Transaction Diligence, Restructuring and Turnaround Services, Project Finance and Infrastructure, EY Parthenon - Strategy and EY Parthenon - Execution.

Your key responsibilities:

• Execute the work on a multiple client base.
• Assume near independent responsibility for smaller clients.
• Develop rapport with middle layers of client management.
• Ensure compliance with risk management strategies, plans and activities.
• Understand the concept of risk management and be able to bring to focus risk issues on client assignments and take issues to the notice of the manager/supervisor.
• Support knowledge sharing efforts and improve processes so that the work team can capture and leverage knowledge.
• Start identifying new opportunities for existing clients and communicate to manager.
• Network internally within the peer group and other levels in the firm in order to gain understanding of issues that may impact issues with clients.

Skills and attributes for success:

• Understanding of the business, competitive positioning, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, challenges, etc. of the target company.
• Analyzed historic and current financial information.
• Analyzed projections and assumptions used for the same.
• Identified deal issues, assessed their impact on the transaction (valuation, etc.) and advised on ways to address the issues.
• Conducted analysis of transaction risks and ways to mitigate them.
• Understanding transaction structure and, based on the same, advising on structuring issues.
• High team orientation.
• Good communication both written and oral (including report writing).
• Strong analytical skills are a must.
• Good at building relationships with clients.
• Due diligence experience as part of M&A team in industry or Big 3 CA firms.
• Been a part of the audit and assurance practice of Big 4 CA firms with some due diligence exposure.
• Industry experience primarily in data analysis, MIS, project handling.

Ideally you'll also have:

• Strong communication, facilitation, relationship-building, presentation and negotiation skills.
• Be highly flexible, adaptable, and creative.
• Comfortable interacting with senior executives (within the firm and at the client).
• Strong leadership skills and supervisory responsibility.

Qualification:

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Chartered Accountant

Experience:

• Chartered Accountant (1+ year)

What we look for:

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful, and able to sustain positive energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach.