What you will doWorking in multi-disciplinary teams, you will apply your professional and technical skills on a wide variety of transactions and at different stages of the transaction cycle. As Manager, Transaction Services, you will:
- Co-coordinate financial due diligence and provide M&A transaction support and advisory services to our clients.
- Interpret and analyze information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
- Review and analyze historical trading, quality of earnings, cash flow, working capital, net debt, capital expenditure, forecasts and underlying assumptions
- Review the adequacy of financing structure including review of agreements and consideration of limits, terms and covenants
- Evaluate potential synergies and post-merger integration considerations
- Report potential key issues for our clients including identification of risk or price factors impacting investment decisions
- Review sale and purchase agreements and financial model to reflect findings of the due diligence process
- Develop, train and coach junior team members through challenging and meaningful opportunities
- Deliver exceptional client service by maximizing results and driving high performance from people, while also fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
- Influence clients, teams and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships as a representative of KPMG Deal Advisory
- Understand key objectives for clients and KPMG, and align people to them to set appropriate priorities and direction
What you bring to the role- Must have a professional designation (CPA, CA); having begun the CBV or CFA is an asset.
- Must be able to achieve government security clearance
- 2+ years of transactional services experience and 5+ years of total experience of accounting and/or finance experience in a consulting and/or corporate environment including:
- Financial due diligence or M&A analysis and report writing
- Identification of issues and factors impacting valuations
- Financial statement interpretation and analysis, including an understanding of the application of and compliance with GAAP
- Review on target projects and formulate deal rationale and strategy
- Professional report writing and presentation skills to assist in preparing pitch documents e.g. proposals and presentations.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills in French
- Proven ability to deliver the full cycle of project management and manage engagement teams and client deliverables, applying your professional and technical skills on a wide variety of transactions.
- Experience with project problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations and team leadership.
- Corporate Development, financial modelling and analytics experience an asset
- Willingness and ability to travel internationally as required
- Business fluency in French to ensure communication with internal and external stakeholders
The selected candidate must demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills in English, with the ability to present complex strategic topics to a diverse range of stakeholders located in English-speaking regions of Canada, such as Ontario
