A&C - Deals & Financing - Due Diligence Apprentice - London - 1 September 2025

Forvis Mazars : who are we?

Forvis Mazars LLP is the UK firm of Forvis Mazars Group. In the UK we have over 3,300 employees across 14 locations, delivering an outstanding client experience. Forvis Mazars is an engine for rapid and consistent career progression, offering career paths that help you pursue your interests, match your changing needs, and explore your true potential. We work with diverse, prestigious clients across a range of sectors and geographies, giving you the opportunity to constantly update and grow your skills for lifelong professional development.

Advisory & Consulting at Forvis Mazars

At Forvis Mazars, our Advisory and Consulting service line is an award winning, global group of successful, entrepreneurial teams. The scope of roles across our service line is broad and varied which is great for our team and clients. The diversity of our service offering enables us to make the time we spend with our clients count by helping them take meaningful, key decisions with confidence and meet their goals. In Advisory & Consulting, collaboration is at the core of all we do. We have over 700 experts across our teams who operate as subject matter experts across our 7 business units: Crisis and Disputes, Deals and Financing, Financial Services Consulting, Management Consulting, Infrastructure Energy, Sustainability Services and Digital and Risk Insurance, with the aim of adding value to clients by finding solutions to a range of financial issues as one collaborative team.

About the Due Diligence team

Our team of transaction services specialists provide confidence, clarity and support during acquisitions, disposals and reorganisations, both nationally and internationally. We analyse areas of financial and tax risk and reward to optimise the contractual and financial terms of our clients' external growth projects. We also provide commercial, practical and tailored advice to address the challenges and specificities of acquisitions.

We support our clients with:

• Assessing Normative Performance: Analyse historical performance and non-recurring items to determine underlying earnings, financing needs, and cash flow potential.
• Quality of Information: Evaluate the relevance and consistency of financial data provided by the seller.
• Legal and Tax Risks: Analyze the target's tax position and legal aspects of the transaction with legal advisors.
• Forecast Assumptions: Review business plans and financial forecasts, comparing them with historical performance.
• Securing Financial and Tax Clauses: Support clients in negotiating and drafting financial clauses of acquisition contracts.
• Reviewing Guarantee Clauses: Review asset and liability guarantee clauses.
• Advising on Price and Tax Structure: Advise on price adjustment mechanisms and optimal tax structures for transactions.

About the role

During your first two years you will:

• Undertake in-depth financial analysis, working closely with managers and partners to support the preparation of client reports.
• Assist managers and partners by preparing data tables, charts and appendices for inclusion in client reports.
• Understand how financial forecasts are constructed, their inherent risks and how to analyse and present these risks in a client report.
• Attend meetings with seller management / finance teams and their advisers and gain experience in dealing / liaising directly with our clients.
• Take ownership of tasks allocated to you.

During your third year you will:

• Take more responsibility on projects and begin to assume core roles on project.
• Take ownership of drafting sections of a client report allocated to you.
• Self-review work, ensuring it is client ready and consistent with the expected house styles and quality.
• Support less experienced team members.
• In seller management meetings, contribute on specific aspects of deals that you had responsibility for reviewing and analysing.
• Gain experience in complex technical areas.
• Effectively balance multiple projects and responsibilities.

In your final year, you will take on greater responsibilities, managing more aspects of projects. You will handle larger sections of client reports or entire smaller projects, ensuring they are completed on within deadlines. You will actively participate in team and client meetings, manage project budgets, and engage in marketing and business development activities.

Who we're looking for

• On track to achieve or have obtained A-level or equivalent qualifications. Strong academic performance is important; however, we understand that things don't always go to plan. Our recruitment process looks at your whole self – academic achievements as well as other experiences in which you have grown and developed.
• Deep curiosity to learn new things and is naturally inquisitive.
• The ability to think critically solve problems and share knowledge with others.
• A commitment to self-development and learning.
• Strong sense of ownership of duties and high levels of responsibility to deliver on promises.
• Always looks to try their best in all they do and always looking for ways to improve.
• Enjoys meeting and engaging with new people with an underlying respect for individuals, diversity, and integrity.
• Works well under pressure and have a positive ‘can-do' attitude if faced with challenging situations.
• Excellent time management skills.
• A willingness to travel and adhere to our flexible working environment.

Learning and development

Fully funded qualifications: ACA (Associate Chartered Accountant)/ CPI (Certificate of Proficiency in Insolvency).

Our supportive culture includes coaching, mentorship, and one-on-one guidance. In addition to funding qualifications, we provide time off to study, and a blended training approach including in person and virtual learning. You will be allocated a buddy before joining who will support you to settle into the team and navigate your first year at Forvis Mazars.

Inclusion and diversity

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Forvis Mazars; we want to ensure everyone, whether in the recruitment process or beyond, is fully supported to be their unique self and provided with a level playing field.

Next steps

Roles will be closed as soon as we find the right people, so to avoid disappointment we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. If you are an international applicant and/or require a visa please view our FAQs before applying to be aware of deadlines and important information you need to know before applying.