Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. The M&A and Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team provides a broad range of advisory services to clients, primarily in a deals environment, including financial due diligence (FDD), tax due diligence, valuations, and M&A lead advisory.As a member of the FDD team you will be providing financial due diligence on both buy-side and sell-side transactions across a variety of industries.Job Overview:As a Senior Manager, you will be expected to liaise with clients and oversee assignments. In addition, you\'ll be leading the team for preparation and presentation of proposals, gathering, analysing facts, developing recommendations, and preparing and presentation reports. The position will have direct supervision over junior and senior staff and interns. Provide the advice necessary to help clients manage and improve their business performance. To work as part of the team, effectively providing a hands-on business consulting service that exceeds client expectations while supporting the Directors/Partners.Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the report preparation process, ensuring a quality document is produced which is relevant to the business and to your clients\' needs.
• Reviewing final drafts of reports ensuring broader market issues are included and consulting other senior members of the team appropriately, where required.
• Managing all aspects of the transaction competently, advising junior team members on technical aspects of the transaction.
• Developing solutions to increasingly complex technical issues.
• Interpreting and analysing complex information, identifying business issues and applying technical knowledge appropriately.
• Taking responsibility for a task and giving direction, structure and responsibility to others in order to get the job done by appropriate delegation.
• Setting the fee estimate with the input from other senior team members and overseeing the drafting of the engagement letter.
• Ensuring that the assignment is completed within budget.
• Leading the presentation of conclusions and recommendations to the client and discussing the implications and action points.
• Leading and facilitating discussions between individuals and groups in either a client or an internal context.
• Preparing fee estimates and budgets for client assignments and managing client expectations regarding scope amendments / additional scope and overruns.
• Ensuring assignments are delivered profitably and with full recovery of billable, chargeable time, with WIP write-downs kept to a minimum.
• Contributing to ensuring maximum utilisation of team members and identifying and implementing opportunities to work more efficiently.
• Ensuring bills are raised accurately and promptly, fees are collected in a timely manner and debtors are kept to a minimum.
• Ensuring compliance with, and adhering to, the firm\'s risk management policies and procedures
• Taking responsibility and ownership of the client relationship at the appropriate level in the client\'s organisation.
• Managing multiple complex client relationships and leading / coordinating multi-service line engagements.
• Ensuring client needs are met in a way that is advantageous to both the client and the firm.

Criteria For Success:

• Bachelor\'s degree in Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics or other relevant degrees, a Master\'s degree is a plus.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in consulting practice or function while working on various industries.
• Experience in leading and managing change projects across a variety of industries.
• Comfortable in working under pressure, in a demanding environment and to tight deadline, delivering results.
• Proven thorough level of abilities and success, as both an individual contributor and team member, with identifying and addressing client needs: actively participating in client discussions and meetings communicating a broad range of the firm\'s services; and, managing engagements, including preparing concise, accurate documents and maintaining project economics while maintaining flexibility for unanticipated issues.
• Excellent communicator in English (written and spoken), Arabic speaking is advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills and commercial awareness.
• Flexible working style and exemplary interpersonal skills (leading teams, mentoring, and developing staff, and being confident whilst interacting with clients and management).
• Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

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