Manager – Deal Advisory / Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence)
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About the Role
KPMG Lower Gulf seeks a Manager for Deal Advisory / Transaction Services focusing on Financial Due Diligence in the Energy and Natural Resources sector. The role leads buy-side and sell-side due diligence engagements, analyzing quality of earnings, net debt, and working capital.
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Responsibilities
- Lead buy side and sell side financial due diligence engagements across various transaction sizes and structures
- Perform and oversee analysis of quality of earnings, normalized EBITDA, net debt, working capital, and cash flow
- Evaluate historical financial performance, business trends, earnings sustainability, and operational drivers
- Review management forecasts, business plans, and financial models, assessing key assumptions and risks
- Prepare and review high quality due diligence reports focused on client investment decisions
- Coordinate with valuation, tax, strategy, and other specialist teams for integrated transaction advice
- Manage multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring delivery within timelines, budgets, and quality standards
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management, investors, and other stakeholders
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline
- Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CFA, or equivalent
- Significant experience in financial due diligence, transaction services, deal advisory, audit, corporate finance, or related field
- Proven experience managing due diligence engagements and leading teams in a professional services environment
- Demonstrated transaction experience within energy, natural resources, infrastructure, or related sectors
- Strong analytical, financial modelling, and financial statement analysis capabilities
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Job Description
- KPMG Lower Gulf Limited is seeking a Manager – Deal Advisory / Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) – Energy and Natural Resources.
Core Technical Skills Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Execution
- Extensive experience leading buy side and sell side financial due diligence engagements.
- Strong understanding of key deal drivers and transaction risks.
- Lead end to end execution of financial due diligence engagements including planning, scoping, analysis, reporting, and client presentations.
- Perform and oversee analysis of quality of earnings, normalized EBITDA, net debt, working capital, cash flow, and other key financial metrics.
- Evaluate historical financial performance, business trends, earnings sustainability, and operational drivers.
- Review management forecasts, business plans, and financial models.
- Translate complex financial analyses into clear, commercially relevant insights.
- Prepare and review high quality due diligence reports.
- Identify, prioritize, and communicate critical transaction issues.
- Coordinate with valuation, tax, strategy, operational, ESG, and other specialist teams.
Energy and Natural Resources Expertise
- Demonstrated experience advising on transactions within energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors.
- Understanding of sector specific value drivers, operating metrics, commercial structures, regulatory frameworks, and financial reporting.
- Experience assessing project based businesses, long term contracts, commodity price exposure, and capital intensive operating models.
- Ability to evaluate sector specific risks and opportunities.
- Knowledge of energy transition trends, decarbonization initiatives, and renewable energy markets is advantageous.
Project & Client Management
- Manage multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Lead engagement teams and allocate resources effectively.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management, investors, lenders, and other stakeholders.
- Proactively manage client expectations.
- Understand transaction objectives and tailor analyses and deliverables.
- Facilitate effective coordination across internal and external stakeholders.
- Escalate key risks, issues, and commercial matters to Directors and Partners.
- Monitor project economics including scope management, budgets, billing, collections, and profitability.
- Ensure compliance with firm risk management, independence, quality control, and engagement documentation requirements.
Communication, Stakeholder Management & Presentation Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Lead or co lead management meetings, diligence sessions, data request discussions, status calls, and report debriefs.
- Present due diligence findings, key risks, and deal considerations confidently to senior management and investment committees.
- Facilitate discussions between multiple parties.
- Demonstrate strong interviewing and information gathering skills.
- Effectively communicate project priorities, findings, and expectations to engagement teams.
- Adapt communication style to different audiences.
- Prepare and review client ready reports, presentations, and other deliverables.
Leadership & Advisory Skills
- Build trusted relationships with clients, management teams, investors, and other stakeholders.
- Demonstrate commercial awareness and understanding of transaction rationale and market dynamics.
- Collaborate effectively across service lines.
- Exercise sound judgment in complex and fast paced environments.
- Challenge assumptions constructively.
- Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members.
- Foster a high performance team environment.
- Establish clear performance expectations.
- Uphold highest standards of professional integrity, ethics, independence, and risk management.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or related discipline.
- Professional qualification such as ACA, ACCA, CPA, CA, CFA, or equivalent.
- Significant experience in financial due diligence, transaction services, deal advisory, audit, corporate finance, or related field.
- Proven experience managing due diligence engagements and leading teams in a professional services environment.
- Demonstrated transaction experience within energy, natural resources, infrastructure, or related sectors.
- Strong analytical, financial modelling, and financial statement analysis capabilities.
- Experience working with private equity, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure investors, corporates, lenders, and other transaction participants is advantageous.
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