Job Title:  Assistant Manager | SPA | Mumbai | Transaction Diligence, Execution & Reporting ICC

The team

Deloitte SPA team works side-by-side with the client and its legal advisors providing dedicated support on over 100 transactions per year. Typically, this involves advising clients in developing contractual solutions to financial and commercial issues identified through due diligence, including advising on purchase price adjustments mechanisms and completion accounts policies in the transaction agreements being negotiated. Learn more about Strategy & Transactions

Your work profile

• As an Assistant Manager in the SPA Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

• Lead and manage projects along with taking ownership of the deliverables with help from junior team members
• Lead and manage a team of junior members, along with developing, maintaining and leveraging relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Quickly developing an understanding of the target business and its drivers
• Interpretation, evaluation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
• Working closely with due diligence teams to identify areas of risk
• Production of quality deliverables (including Excel and word documents) within agreed timescales, briefing Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager accordingly.  On larger deals this may involve responsibility for the production of discrete sections. This will include reviewing the sale and purchase agreement for:
• Assessing the suitability of the pricing mechanism (for example, locked box; completion accounts and/or earn-out) and associated accounting based definitions
• Considering the appropriateness of key financial warranties and indemnities
• Developing robust accounting policies for completion accounts
• Longer term, potential opportunities for international secondment

Key skills required

• CA/CFA
• 1 to 3 years of Experience of working on transactions, disputes or completion accounts would be an advantage.
• Strong report writing and reviewing skills, with an appropriate focus on attention to detail, conciseness and risk management
• Strong report writing and reviewing skills, attention to detail, conciseness and risk management
• Strong excel skills - quick and accurate manipulation of data
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
• Focused on high quality service & fluency in written & verbal English