Description
Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.
Job Description & Summary
At PwC, we value every individual's role in shaping our future. We're looking for candidates who excel in their roles and embody our core behaviours of Trusted Leadership and Distinctive Outcomes. Trusted Leadership focuses on building trust, delivering sustained results, and showing courage and honesty. Distinctive Outcomes emphasize excellence, collaboration, and inclusiveness. We seek self-aware, collaborative individuals committed to continuous learning and delivering quality and integrity.
A career in our Financial Due Diligence (FDD) team, which sits within our Deals Transaction Services practice can provide you the opportunity to help organizations realize the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Through data driven insights, our FDD team helps clients ensure maximum value for their company and assist organizations with both buy side and sell side due diligence. As part of the team, you can help us provide both corporate and financial buyers with peace of mind by analyzing and assessing all the financial, commercial, operational and strategic assumptions being made.
Role Responsibilities
As a Financial Due Diligence Senior Associate, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Solving clients' problems by reviewing financial data and structuring analysis, applying analytical frameworks, and flagging any issues
- Participate in financial due diligence assignments in the context of buy- and sell-side M&A transactions, servicing both corporate and private equity clients
- Analyze and present financial information (i.e. Income statement, Balance sheet and Cash flow statements), as well as underlying key performance drivers
- Add value to the targeted transaction by transforming key findings into price adjustments and proposed warranties
- Assess key valuation metrics used to bridge Enterprise and Equity value by analyzing underlying EBITDA, working capital requirements and net (financial) debt
- Provide insight on other (non-) financial risks and opportunities specific to the business and relevant to consider in a transaction context
- Taking ownership of components of engagements and collaborating with team members to deliver thorough and well-structured reports
- Adding or forming financial, commercial, and business views to help the target, client and investors in their decision making
- Supporting other PwC offices across the Middle East on regional transactions
- Researching, aggregating and analyzing data; synthesizing large quantities of information; extracting meaningful insights to provide recommendations to our clients
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in Transaction Services, particularly financial due diligence.
- Understanding of transaction services related domain or a multinational organization
- Keen to analyze a complex problem and solve using data-driven insights, accounting and finance knowledge
- Motivated to build excellent working relationships and meet deadlines successfully in a fast paced & dynamic environment
- Confident communicator and can deliver messages both written and verbal with impact to a wide variety of audiences
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to understand key business drivers
- Ability to prioritize workload and meet tight deadlines
- Excellent attention to detail
- Your flexibility to travel 20% of the time. This means we may require you to work away from your base office location on a regular basis and frequent overnight stays may be required. Where possible, we will take your preferences into account and strike a balance between meeting your career development/personal needs and those of the business and our clients.
Why you’ll love PwC
We’re inspiring and empowering our people to change the world. Powered by the latest technology, you’ll be a part of amazing teams helping public and private clients build trust and deliver sustained outcomes. This meaningful work, and our continuous development environment, will take your career to the next level. We reward your impact, and support your wellbeing, through a competitive compensation package, inclusive benefits and flexibility programs that will help you thrive in work and life. Learn more about us at https://www.pwc.com/m1/en/about-us/life-at-pwc.html
Optional Skills
Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Acquisitions, Active Listening, Analytical Thinking, Business Performance Metrics, Business Valuations, Communication, Contractual Agreements, Corporate Finance, Cost Accounting, Creativity, Deal Management, Earnings Quality, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Finance Industry, Financial Advising, Financial Due Diligence, Financial Economics, Financial Forecasting, Financial Management, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning {+ 22 more}
Travel Requirements
Up to 20%
Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?
Yes
Government Clearance Required?
No
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