Overview
In this Manager role within Deloitte’s SPA team, you will lead high-profile M&A work, shaping contractual solutions in fast-paced deals. You’ll collaborate with due diligence and tax teams to address financial and commercial issues and advise on completion accounts and price adjustment mechanisms. You’ll act as a key client contact, delivering robust recommendations and managing project delivery across multiple transactions. This opportunity offers strong career progression with direct support from Partners and Directors, in a globally connected advisory practice. You will contribute to building client relationships and ensuring high-quality, risk-aware outcomes that drive value in cross‑jur
Pay / Benefits
- hybrid working
- career development opportunities
- return to work coaching
- wellbeing focus
Responsibilities
- Develop understanding of target business and drivers to inform advisory approach
- Collaborate with due diligence teams to identify risk areas
- Review transaction documents to pinpoint issues, assess pricing mechanisms (lockbox, completion accounts, earn-out) and related accounting definitions
- Evaluate financial warranties and indemnities, and craft robust completion accounts policies
- Co-develop client recommendations with Partner/Director
- Communicate key issues and deliver actionable recommendations to clients
- Drive transactions forward and serve as primary client contact for clients and M&A lawyers
- Project manage assignments, interface with clients, manage risk and costs
- Produce high-quality deliverables within deadlines; brief Partner/Director
- Lead marketing and business development activities (client presentations, account management, industry/geography/product programs)
Key requirements
- ACA qualification or equivalent
- Attention to detail
- Flexible working style and adaptability
- Strong writing and reviewing skills with risk management focus
- Broad commercial acumen and ability to perform under pressure
- Excellent interpersonal skills for senior-level engagement
- Client-focused with high service quality
- Strong organizational skills and multi-project capability
- Desirable: experience on transactions, disputes or completion accounts
- Strong communication and negotiation
- Relationship building with clients and advisers
- Resilience under high-pressure deal environments
- Understanding of pricing mechanisms in SPAs (locked box, completion accounts, earn-out)
- Ability to assess and structure financial warranties and indemnities
- Development of accounting policies for completion accounts-based mechanisms
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