Senior Analyst - Mergers and Acquisitions

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The Senior Analyst, Mergers and Acquisitions, will play a critical role in evaluating and executing potential M&A transactions and investment opportunities. This role involves analytical data modelling, developing financial models, conducting market research, coordinating strategic initiatives, and communicating deal terms to various stakeholders. The Senior Analyst will also maintain relationships with potential acquisition targets and external stakeholders and participate in drafting and reviewing transaction documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

M&A Analysis and Execution:

• Lead financial and strategic analyses to evaluate potential M&A transactions and investment opportunities.
• Develop detailed financial models.
• Conduct market and industry research to identify trends and opportunities.
• Analyse market trends, regulatory developments, and other factors affecting deal-making opportunities.
• Participate in the drafting and review of financial and commercial terms pertaining to legal transaction documentation.

Strategic Coordination:

• Coordinate strategic initiatives and due-diligence activities with cross-functional teams, including operations, finance, legal, IT, and HR.
• Communicate deal terms, rationale, and track progress to various stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain relationships with potential acquisition targets and external stakeholders.

Corporate Strategy:

• Develop and deliver divisional level analysis, options, execution plans, and recommendations based on analytical rigor, logic, and subject matter expertise.
• Proactively spot strategic opportunities missed by others and plot insightful approaches.

Research, Analysis, & Framing:

• Conduct market-based research by identifying and gathering information (e.g., financial statements, reports, analyses, stakeholder feedback, expert calls).
• Interpret information with guidance from senior colleagues as needed.
• Conduct analyses (e.g., financial modelling) to validate proposed ideas and inform business decisions.
• Assist in refining initial framing established by project lead for strategic questions and apply structure to analysis.

Problem Solving & Insight:

• Guide project team problem solving through development of frameworks/methodologies to create insightful analysis and recommendations.
• Identify the right questions to frame the team’s work.
• Synthesize findings into insights within a project, including implications that inform business decisions.
• Leverage insights to support strategic recommendations with guidance from project leads.

Communication:

• Produce high-quality executive communications and arguments to facilitate senior discussions and decision-making.
• Deliver project findings, recommendations, and implications to senior executives clearly and succinctly.
• Communicate and advocate insights to business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) through written documents (e.g., memos, reports) and influence models (e.g., meetings, presentations).

Business Partner Relationships:

• Establish and maintain key points of contact with internal teams (e.g., Finance, Marketing, Engineering).
• Build working relationships with junior project stakeholders and business partners.
• Share knowledge with business leaders (e.g., Senior Managers, Directors) on particular areas of expertise, leveraging and broadening deep technical/product knowledge and market awareness to inform strategic business decisions.

Key Requirements:

Experience:

• Experience: 3-10 years in a client-serving role at a strategy consulting firm, investment banking, on the investing team at a Private Equity firm, or in equity or fixed-income research; additional relevant experience is welcome.
• Education: MBA preferred, with at least 3 years of billable, client serving, or investing experience.
• Qualifications: CA, CPA, or equivalent with a background in financial due diligence.  CFA a plus.
• Desirable Experience: Previous work at established accounting firms or private equity firms. M&A product area or sell-side equity research at investment banks or similar organizations.

Skills:

• Strong analytical abilities: market and industry analysis, business case development, objectivity, hypothesis creation.
• Stakeholder management: engagement, briefing, and standing calls with executive leadership.
• Decision-making: driving decisions, owning information, effective communication.
• Strategy frameworks: fluent in strategy frameworks, comfortable with valuation models, skilled at curating business cases.
• Collaboration: thoughtfully engaging and challenging colleagues, pressure testing ideas.
• Data synthesis: collecting inputs from stakeholders, making sense of data, modelling.
• Behaviours: Highly collaborative, a strong client service orientation, highly responsive to internal client and stakeholder needs, and operating with curiosity and high level of humility.

What We Can Offer You:

• Varied, interesting and meaningful work.
• A hybrid working environment with flexibility and great opportunities.
• Opportunities for training and, as the team grows, career progression or sideways moves.
• An opportunity to work within a large global multi-disciplinary consultancy on a mission to change the ways we approach business as usual.

Why work for AtkinsRéalis?

We at AtkinsRéalis are committed to developing its people both personally and professionally. Our colleagues have the advantage of access to a high ranging training portfolio and development activities designed to help make the best of individual’s abilities and talents. We also actively support staff in achieving corporate membership of relevant institutions.

Meeting Your Needs:

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Additional Information:

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