Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) Manager / Associate Director

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We operate in 142 countries, have more than 275,000 people working in member firms around the World. KPMG is the chosen business partner for many of the world’s leading organizations.

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world . We place a high value on providing our employees with a supportive and collaborative workplace where people are valued and empowered. In our team you can make a difference.

We are now taking applications for Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) Manager / Associate Director in our Deal Advisory team.

The opportunity

In every economic environment, there are opportunities to create, enhance, and preserve value. Our Deal Advisory professionals help buyers, sellers, private equity investors, governments, and lenders in developing and executing on their value strategies. Our clients are typically private corporates, private equity funds, as well as large public companies. Our people are motivated self-starters with expertise in finance, valuation, tax, accounting and financial reporting. Our network is global.

KPMG's Deal Advisory practice is continuing to grow and we are currently looking for professionals at the Manager / Associate Director level for Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) team. Come and join us.

We welcome applications from candidates based in Istanbul and other cities across Turkey.

What You Will Do

Working in multi-disciplinary teams, you will apply your professional and technical skills on a wide variety of transactions and at different stages of the transaction cycle. As Manager / Associate Director, Transaction Services, you will

• Manage and deliver financial due diligence projects,
• Focus on analyzing financial data and identifying key trends behind the performance of a business, discussing business performance and forecast assumptions with senior team management, and lead to write reports that set out our findings and recommendations around the key financial and business issues and will provide value to the client through insights, factual conclusions and advice. Review and analysis of historical trading, cash flow and balance sheets,
• Perform financial analysis, reading financial tables of a company and identifying KPIs of various sectors,
• Review of the adequacy of working capital facilities, including consideration of financing limits, term and covenants,
• Reporting of potential key issues for our client including identification of risk or price affecting consideration,
• Develop, train and coach junior team members through challenging and meaningful opportunities,
• Deliver exceptional client service by maximizing results and driving high performance from people, while also fostering collaboration across businesses and borders,
• Influence clients, teams and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships as a representative of KPMG Deal Advisory,
• Understand key objectives for clients and KPMG, and align people to them to set appropriate priorities and direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, economics, or business from an accredited ,college/university,- preferably an MSc or MA degree from an accredited college/university.
• 5-8 years of experience with a combination of transaction services (financial due diligence), audit, internal audit, financial reporting etc. experience,
• Strong accounting/audit background preferably in Big4,
• Professional report writing and presentation skills to assist in preparing pitch documents e.g. proposals and presentations,
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English,
• Proven ability to deliver the full cycle of project management and manage engagement teams and client deliverables, applying your professional and technical skills on a wide variety of transactions,
• Experience with project problem diagnosis, solution development, client communications, facilitation of decision making, documentation, managing client expectations and team leadership.