Finance Consultant - M&A / Transaction Support

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and stress-test integrated financial models covering P&L, balance sheet and cash flow.
• Develop financial models to support valuation, scenario analysis, deal structuring and transaction decision-making.
• Prepare carve-out and standalone financials for target or divested businesses.
• Analyse shared cost allocations, stranded costs, standalone cost requirements and pro forma adjustments.
• Support financial due diligence, including analysis of historical financial performance.
• Assess and normalise earnings, including quality of earnings (QoE) analysis.
• Analyse working capital, net debt and underlying financial performance.
• Review and interrogate financial data provided by target businesses and advisers.
• Prepare pro forma financial statements reflecting transaction perimeter changes, one-off items and other adjustments.
• Build clear financial reconciliations and maintain supporting documentation.
• Produce high-quality analysis for boards, investment committees and senior management.
• Prepare management presentations, scenario modelling and sensitivity analysis.
• Work closely with external advisers including corporate finance, legal, tax and due diligence teams.
• Support the management and flow of financial information through the transaction data room.
• Assist with synergy identification and quantification, as well as integration and separation planning.
• Maintain strong version control and a clear audit trail across financial models and analysis as deal assumptions evolve.

Skills & Experience

• A recognised accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA or CIMA, or equivalent demonstrable finance experience.
• Strong FP&A and commercial finance experience.
• Previous exposure to M&A, transactions, corporate finance or transaction advisory, gained either in-house, within practice or in an advisory environment.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, including the ability to build complex models from a blank workbook.
• Strong experience building and working with integrated three-statement financial models.
• Experience preparing carve-out or standalone financials.
• Knowledge of shared cost allocations, stranded-cost analysis and pro forma adjustments.
• A strong understanding of how the P&L, balance sheet and cash flow statement interlink.
• Good understanding of valuation, returns and transaction fundamentals.
• Experience working with incomplete, complex or unstructured financial data and forming a clear, defensible view quickly.
• Strong analytical skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Confidence presenting complex financial analysis clearly to senior stakeholders and external advisers.

About You

• Highly delivery-focused and comfortable working to demanding transaction deadlines.
• Calm and organised in a fast-moving environment where priorities can change quickly.
• Meticulous with numbers and able to maintain a high level of accuracy under pressure.
• A self-starter who can take ownership of a workstream and operate with limited supervision.
• Commercially minded and comfortable challenging assumptions where appropriate.
• Confident working directly with senior stakeholders and external advisers.
• Discreet and trustworthy when handling commercially sensitive and highly confidential information.
• Flexible during critical stages of the transaction where additional hours may occasionally be required.