Corporate Finance Senior

Cooper Fitch

UAE

Ref: GP932-904

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Corporate Finance Senior Consultant - Dubai

Morgan McKinley have partnered with a leading global practice to recruit an experienced Corporate Finance or Transaction Advisory Services Senior Consultant. The firm are one of the leading providers of transaction advisory services in the UAE with experienced professionals based across their Dubai and Abu Dhabi offices. This role will be based in the Dubai office with occasional travel to Abu Dhabi.

As a Corporate Finance Senior Consultant, you'll work with a high-performing, integrated team which focuses on a wide variety of clients and delivers a range of assignments focusing on mergers and acquisitions, valuations and business modelling, restructuring and transaction support. You'll have a diverse range of stretching experiences which will give you continuous learning and development opportunities as well as a great sense of achievement.

This growing team focuses on building strong relationships which will ultimately help you and your clients reach their potential. The group is seeking to recruit Executives who will be able to build on their current corporate finance, transaction, advisory and commercial experience as they work on diverse and demanding assignments. Due to the variety of services they provide to thei clients, the work requires a high level of adaptability, flexibility and innovation.

Working under the supervision of Managers, Directors and Partners within Corporate Finance and Transaction Advisory Services on the following assignments
* Due diligence
* Mergers, buyouts and disposals
* Business modelling
* Valuations
* Business planning
* Strategic advice
* Formal insolvencies
* Informal business reviews
* Gathering, verifying and analysing information to formulate views.
* Maintaining and constantly upgrading technical knowledge and personal skills.

Experience of working on and a deep technical knowledge of any of the following areas;
* Informal business reviews
* Due diligence
* Mergers, buyouts and disposals
* Business modelling
* Valuations
* Business planning
* Strategic advice
* Ability to communicate effectively with key stakeholders.
* High level of commercial acumen.
* Proficient in detailed financial and commercial analysis and the ability to identify potential areas of sensitivity.
* Ability to identify key issues on assignments and suggest workable solutions.
* Experience in presenting findings clearly in reports and other deliverables to clients.

Requirements

* Qualified accountant with ACA, ACCA, CPA or equivalent qualification
* Strong commercial experience and/or relevant industry experience
* At least 4-5 years experience in Corporate Finance or Transaction Advisory Services, preferably in a Big 4 environment
* Excellent communicator, both oral and written
* Strong IT skills, to an advanced level in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
* Project management skills
* Effective time management
* Ability to keep calm when under pressure to meet deadlines
* Team player with the ability to build effective relationships at all levels but also able to work effectively on your own using your own initiative and judgement as required

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.

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