Job Description

CharteredPartners is seeking an experienced transaction services professional to join our client in Sydney at Senior Manager level. The successful candidate will manage financial due diligence engagements on buy-side and vendor mandates, running fieldwork, shaping the analysis and acting as the day-to-day lead between partners and the client. Specific qualifications, regulatory fluency and technical breadth are detailed in the sections that follow.

Confidential Client. Applying to this position means that you are interested to have an initial confidential discussion about how we can help you to identify and join a new accounting-firm practice. With your authorisation we will exclusively run the entire application and recruitment process for you, keeping you apprised at every step. With over 30 years' combined experience of helping the most talented accounting, audit, tax and advisory professionals to make safe, well-judged moves into rewarding new roles, we have the experience, network and ability to help you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage buy-side and vendor financial due diligence engagements, planning fieldwork and supervising the analyst and junior team.
• Prepare and review quality of earnings analysis, normalising EBITDA and identifying one-off and non-recurring items.
• Analyse net debt, working capital and cash flow trends and articulate their implications for price and structure.
• Draft clear, well-evidenced diligence reports and data books for private equity and corporate clients.
• Act as day-to-day liaison with target management, advisers and the partner group on live engagements.
• Apply AASB and IFRS to interrogate financial information and challenge management representations.
• Coach junior team members and contribute to proposals and pitch materials.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• CA (CAANZ) or CPA Australia membership, ideally complemented by the CFA.
• Six or more years in transaction services, financial due diligence or audit moving into deals, including time at Manager or Senior Manager level.
• Strong command of quality of earnings, net debt and working capital analysis.
• Fluency in AASB and IFRS and the ability to interrogate complex financial statements.
• Understanding of the ASX environment and ASIC regulatory context as they bear on transactions.
• Experience preparing diligence deliverables for private equity and corporate acquirers.
• Sound grasp of SPA mechanics, completion accounts and locked-box mechanisms.
• Strong project management and the ability to run concurrent engagements to deadline.
• Excellent written and spoken English and confident client communication.
• A developing record of supervising and mentoring junior staff.

Preferred Experience:

• Exposure to FIRB-relevant inbound transactions and foreign-investment considerations.
• Experience with superannuation and infrastructure buyer requirements.
• Sector depth in technology, consumer, healthcare, mining services or financial services.
• Familiarity with lender and sponsor diligence on leveraged deals.
• Prior experience within a recognised global accounting-firm deals practice.
• Exposure to cross-border transactions across the Asia-Pacific region.

Compensation:

Competitive package commensurate with seniority and experience, including base, performance-based bonus, long-term incentives and (where applicable) partner-track participation.

Next Steps:

This opportunity is open to Australian citizens, permanent residents and candidates with valid Australian work rights who match the above criteria. Please apply to receive prompt contact from an experienced and specialist accounting-firm recruitment consultant.

Chartered Partners is a trading style of Feltan Associates Pte Ltd; an international Executive Search, Recruitment and Consulting business based in Singapore, licensed and regulated by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower to conduct recruitment services for clients. UEN: 202225620G. EA Licence 23S1672. All rights reserved.