Senior Consultant - Strategy and Transactions - Transactions Corporate Finance

The opportunity

EY's Transactions Corporate Finance (TCF) department is a unique nexus between the corporate finance and the M&A transactions landscape, with a focus on M&A Advisory, Transaction Diligence and Valuation Modeling & Economics. By joining us, you will be stepping into an environment marked by ambition, drive to perform, resilience and our all comprising purpose of building a better working world. Our team is made up of dynamic and diverse individuals who thrive on collaboration, innovation, and entrepreneurial spirit, fueled by a categoric "YES, can do" mentality!
When starting at EY TCF, you will encounter a wide range of experience during your first years. You will be staffed across sectors and experiencing different domains (type of projects and deliverables like Due Diligence, Valuations or M&A Lead Advisory). This sets a broad foundation of knowledge and allows you to become a well-rounded transaction advisor with both technical excellence and deep sector understanding as your career progresses. In order to reinforce our growing Transaction Diligence team in Geneva, we are currently looking for a Senior Consultant.

Your key responsibilities
Whilst traditional Financial Due Diligence is a key element for this opportunity, Transactions Corporate Finance is much broader, and you will be exposed providing further assistance in M&A advisory and Valuation support (Preparation of transaction documents, company valuations, market research, financial models, data analysis, and support for strategic decisions).

• Perform Financial Due Diligences relating to the sale or acquisition of companies together with a young and dynamic, multi-cultural project team;
• Help to identify risks and items which should be considered in the purchase price and provide input to the share/asset purchase agreements;
• Apply state-of-the-art analytics tools in your analysis and have the opportunity to drive the application of further digital solutions within SaT;
• Analyse virtual datarooms and support the Q&A process during the due diligence phase;
• Support in the signing to closing phase;
• Prepare detailed reports outlining the due diligence findings;
• Gain experiences across different sectors with the opportunity to develop your industry specific profile and to benefit from mobility programs abroad.

Skills and attributes for success
• Completed university degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics or in a STEM field, and ideally - but not required - a completed Chartered Accountant qualification (Swiss CPA, ACCA, ACA or equivalent) or CFA charter;
• Between two to four years of Transaction Diligence experience in a Big4 department is a requirement;
• Outstanding communication and presentation skills in English AND French, both verbally and in writing, are a must. Additional proficency in German and Italian are welcomed;
• Knowledge of analytical tools such as Alteryx, PowerBI as well as a high level of Microsoft office skills especially Excel;
• Leadership experience from working with other advisors such as sell side or buy side advisors, liaising with senior members of the team and supervising junior member of the team;
• Sharp analytical thinking and exceptional problem-solving skills;
• Exceptional team player who is able to work with people at all levels in an organization.

What we offer

EY Switzerland offers you to work in a diverse and inclusive environment with around 3,000 employees from 64 different countries. You will collaborate with the best, learn from the best and continually grow, as we invest a significant portion of our annual turnover in the personal development and training of our employees .

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Have we sparked your interest? We look forward to receiving your complete application with CV, cover letter, certificates, copy of transcripts.
For more information, please contact our recruitment team (Write an email / +41 58 286 33 66).

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