Senior Associate, Financial Due Diligence

Description
Join Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Team in Kuala Lumpur.

Our TAS team helps businesses navigate the entire transaction life-cycle, providing opportunities for engagement throughout the duration of a deal. Key services include:

1. Corporate Finance Advice: Leading M&A transactions with expert guidance.
2. Financial Due Diligence: Conducting thorough financial due diligence for buy-side and sell-side transactions for private equity, GLCs, corporate clients etc.
3. Valuations: Offering comprehensive valuation services on various transactional (acquisition, disposal etc.) and non-transactional (impairment testing, purchase price allocation, dispute valuation etc.) matters.
4. Advisory Services: Providing strategic and commercial advisory services.

As a member of the TAS team, you will help clients identify and mitigate risks associated with deals, ensuring successful outcomes and fostering growth. Join us to leverage a global network of industry experts and data-driven insights, enhancing your career and making a tangible impact on businesses and communities.

Your responsibilities will include:

1. Manage and deliver financial due diligence projects related to transactions involving strategic acquisitions (buy side) and divestment (sell side).
2. Understand the key business drivers of different companies, analyse financial and non-financial data including quality of earnings, quality of assets, cash flow and working capital, customer, and supplier matters.
3. Identify critical findings and potential risks, derive insightful recommendations, and communicate concise findings to our clients.
4. Prepare and draft client reports to address their strategic goals, including as the buyer or seller of the assets.
5. Responsible for majority of day-to-day client communications.
6. Keep up to date with global, regional, and local business and economic issues.
7. Be actively involved in business development activities to help identify and research opportunities for new/existing clients.
8. Establish effective working relationships with stakeholders and clients.

Minimum Requirements:

1. Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in global accounting firms, with detailed knowledge and understanding of financial due diligence and M&A process.
2. Degree and/or professional qualification in finance / accounting (ACCA/ICAEW/CPA etc.).
3. Strong time management skills and ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
4. Demonstrates proven expertise and success in leadership roles providing financial due diligence and other transaction-related services to clients.
5. Demonstrates proven expertise in interviewing executive management at target companies, as well as extensive knowledge assessing a target company's quality of earnings, net assets, and cash flows.
6. Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
7. Entrepreneurial mindset and good commercial acumen, with understanding of business and industry dynamics.
8. Highly adaptable, able to work independently and effectively under pressure.
9. Team player with strong interpersonal skills.
10. Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
11. Willingness to travel.
12. Demonstrated ability to think on your feet.

Company
Dynamic organisations need a broad range of advisory services to support their ambition and growth. As your business grows, our advisory services are designed to help you achieve your goals. Successful growth often means navigating a complex array of opportunities, challenges and risks.

Be it in Malaysia or overseas, businesses are susceptible to the ever-changing regulatory, fiscal, financial and political environment in which they operate. These changing circumstances may pose opportunities for growth, just as they may create financial distress and even insolvency for some businesses.

Therefore, having the right professional adviser to look into your needs is crucial to sustaining the survival or success of your business. We make it our utmost priority to help you achieve your corporate goals and financial objectives, and steer your business towards greater success.

Backed by our local and international resources, our experienced corporate advisory specialists are well positioned to help you realise your objectives and propel your business to greater heights.

Company Profile
Grant Thornton Malaysia PLT is a member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd and provides assurance, tax, corporate finance, restructuring, and other specialist services to private and publicly listed companies. With four offices across Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Johor, and Kuantan and access to over 68,000 Grant Thornton people, across 130 countries, we are focused on making a difference to clients, colleagues, and the communities in which we live and work.

We are a Platinum status Approved Employer for ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants), a Recognised Employer for CPA Australia, Authorised Training Employer (ATE) for MICPA and ICAEW Approved Training Employer.

With Grant Thornton's excellent growth, we have been awarded the 'Employer of the Year' at an award ceremony in London hosted by the International Accounting Bulletin and Universum named Top 100 Most Attractive Employers in Malaysia. Grant Thornton was also acknowledged as the Most Preferred Graduate Employer in Talentbank's Graduates' Choice Awards from year 2018 to 2023.

Perks and Benefits:
Medical, Miscellaneous allowance, Education support, Dental, Parking, Vision.