Capital & Debt Advisory Manager

Ernst & Young

Dubai, UAE

Ref: NP946-41

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team works with clients to manage their capital agenda to drive competitive advantage and increased returns. As part of a global team of 10,000 professionals in 100 countries you will advise clients on preserving, optimizing, raising or investing capital. Major groups (or, as we call them, sub-service lines and competencies) within TAS include Mergers and Acquisition Services, Project Finance & Infrastructure, Restructuring Services, Operational Transaction Services, Transaction Support, Corporate Finance Strategy,

Transaction Tax, and Valuation, Business Modeling, Capital and Debt Advisory and Economic Advisory.

Our global network of Capital & Debt Advisory Services professionals help clients raise capital, advise on capital structure and execute complex balance sheet restructurings. The team has decades of experience guiding clients through capital events, and understands the dynamics of every layer of the capital structure.

The role:
- Support in the development of effective funding strategies for transactions and businesses and appraise the relative merits of each
- Identifying funders and investors and negotiating terms
- Personally execute designated procedures and lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, depending on the size of the engagement
- Actively establish, maintain and strengthen internal and external relationships and make sure that delivered client work is of high quality. As part of this, you'll anticipate and identify risks and escalate issues as appropriate
- Provide advice and technical input as well as have extensive engagement with the client
- Utilise your extensive knowledge of information tools including Bloomberg, Reuters & Capital IQ to support live transactions and new business development
- Develop and use complex financial models to advise clients on financial structures, viability, sensitivity and scenario analysis
- Develop management presentations and information memorandums and support clients though attendance and participation in meetings
- Manage transaction admin and QRM compliance including assisting in managing the financial aspects of engagements by organising staffing, tracking fees and communicating issues to project leaders
- Support the identification of appropriate opportunities with existing/potential clients
- Use existing 'anchor relationships' and support the process of winning new clients for EY services beyond CDA
- Present to clients and actively engage in new business development
- Work with clients to take proposals to market, interact with target funders and assist with presentation of the opportunity in the most effective way
- Be involved in negotiating and structuring the transaction to successful completion
- Be a strong team player with the ability to build effective working relationships with individuals, organisations and clients
- Manage small teams
- Help to create a positive learning culture and coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop
- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training

Requirements

- Strong academic record with 5-7 years of related work experience and professional/postgraduate qualification (CPA/CFA/ MBA/CTP/Masters etc.)
- Local commercial banking experience is essential
- Strong local banking, finance and accounting skills with knowledge of Islamic finance preferable
- Highly numeric, with evidence of advanced financial modelling skills and proficiency in detailed financial analysis
- Excellent command of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- An energetic, lateral thinker with an enquiring mind and display a high level of commercial acumen.
- Commitment to staying at the cutting edge of knowledge in focused industries
- Strong work initiative and the ability to adapt to new challenges and ideas
- Ability to work well within a team
- Possess a high degree of personal drive and motivation.
- Demonstrate experience managing relevant transactions and experienced in presenting findings to clients
- Have an appreciation of the risks inherent in advising distressed businesses and their stakeholders
- Demonstrate aptitude for quantitative and qualitative analysis and the ability to synthesize findings and link them to client issues
- Willingness to travel abroad mainly within MENA
- Effective written and verbal communication (additional Arabic language skills are highly desirable)

With so many offerings, you have the opportunity to develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring and formal learning.

That’s how we develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders, and in so doing, play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

Sound interesting? Well this is just the beginning. Because whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

About the Company

EY is a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services. The insights and quality services we deliver help build trust and confidence in the capital markets and in economies the world over. We develop outstanding leaders who team to deliver on our promises to all of our stakeholders. In so doing, we play a critical role in building a better working world for our people, for our clients and for our communities.

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The MENA practice of EY has been operating in the region since 1923. For over 95 years, we have grown to over 7,500 people united across 21 offices and 16 countries, sharing the same values and an unwavering commitment to quality. As an organization, we continue to develop outstanding leaders who deliver exceptional services to our clients and who contribute to our communities. We are proud of our accomplishments over the years, reaffirming our position as the largest and most established professional services organization in the region

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