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Manager – Deal Advisory / Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence)
KPMG Middle East Careers
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Full Time
Manager
1 months ago
Financial Due DiligenceTransaction ExecutionFinancial AnalysisFinancial ModelingQuality of Earnings AnalysisEBITDA Analysis
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About the Role
KPMG Middle East seeks a Manager for Deal Advisory / Transaction Services focusing on Financial Due Diligence in Energy and Natural Resources. The role involves leading buy-side and sell-side due diligence engagements, analyzing financial metrics, and advising clients on transactions.
Key Skills for This Role
Financial Due DiligenceTransaction ExecutionFinancial AnalysisFinancial ModelingQuality of Earnings AnalysisEBITDA Analysis
Responsibilities
- Lead buy side and sell side financial due diligence engagements across a range of transaction sizes and structures.
- Perform and oversee analysis of quality of earnings, normalized EBITDA, net debt, working capital requirements, cash flow generation, and other key financial metrics.
- Evaluate historical financial performance, business trends, earnings sustainability, and underlying operational drivers.
- Review management forecasts, business plans, and financial models, assessing key assumptions, sensitivities, and risks relevant to the transaction.
- Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, and commercially relevant insights for private equity, corporate, infrastructure, and sovereign investors.
- Prepare and review high quality due diligence reports, ensuring findings are focused on matters most relevant to client investment decisions.
- Identify, prioritize, and communicate critical transaction issues and develop practical recommendations to support client decision making.
- Coordinate with valuation, tax, strategy, operational, ESG, and other specialist teams to deliver integrated transaction advice.
- Manage multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
- Lead engagement teams and allocate resources effectively across workstreams.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management teams, investors, lenders, and other transaction stakeholders.
- Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members through continuous feedback, technical guidance, and on the job training.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a 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 a related field
- Proven experience managing due diligence engagements and leading teams in a professional services environment
- Demonstrated transaction experience within the 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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Job Description
- Designation: Manager – Deal Advisory / Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) – Energy and Natural Resources
Core Technical Skills
- Extensive experience leading buy side and sell side financial due diligence engagements across a range of transaction sizes and structures.
- Strong understanding of key deal drivers and transaction risks, with the ability to identify and communicate issues that may impact valuation, pricing, deal structure, financing, or post deal integration.
- Lead the end to end execution of financial due diligence engagements, including planning, scoping, data request management, analysis, reporting, and client presentations.
- Perform and oversee analysis of quality of earnings, normalized EBITDA, net debt, working capital requirements, cash flow generation, and other key financial metrics.
- Evaluate historical financial performance, business trends, earnings sustainability, and underlying operational drivers.
- Review management forecasts, business plans, and financial models, assessing key assumptions, sensitivities, and risks relevant to the transaction.
- Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, and commercially relevant insights for private equity, corporate, infrastructure, and sovereign investors.
- Prepare and review high quality due diligence reports, ensuring findings are focused on matters most relevant to client investment decisions.
- Identify, prioritize, and communicate critical transaction issues and develop practical recommendations to support client decision making.
- Coordinate with valuation, tax, strategy, operational, ESG, and other specialist teams to deliver integrated transaction advice.
Energy and Natural Resources Expertise
- Demonstrated experience advising on transactions within the energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors, including oil & gas, petrochemicals, mining & metals, power & utilities, renewables, energy transition, and related industrial assets.
- Understanding of sector specific value drivers, operating metrics, commercial structures, regulatory frameworks, and financial reporting considerations.
- Experience assessing project based businesses, long term contracts, commodity price exposure, reserve/resource based assets, regulated businesses, and capital intensive operating models.
- Ability to evaluate sector specific risks and opportunities and articulate their impact on earnings, cash flows, valuation, and transaction structure.
- Knowledge of energy transition trends, decarbonization initiatives, renewable energy markets, and emerging infrastructure investment themes 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 across workstreams.
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management teams, investors, lenders, and other transaction stakeholders.
- Proactively manage client expectations and ensure a high standard of client service throughout the transaction lifecycle.
- Understand transaction objectives and tailor analyses and deliverables to address key client concerns and investment considerations.
- Facilitate effective coordination across internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient project execution.
- Escalate key risks, issues, and commercial matters to Directors and Partners in a timely manner.
- 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, with the ability to distill complex financial and operational issues into clear, concise, and commercially relevant messages.
- Lead or co lead management meetings, diligence sessions, data request discussions, status calls, and report debriefs with clients, targets, investors, lenders, and other transaction stakeholders.
- Present due diligence findings, key risks, and deal considerations confidently to senior management, investment teams, executive stakeholders, and investment committees.
- Facilitate discussions between multiple parties and drive alignment on key transaction matters in a professional and constructive manner.
- Demonstrate strong interviewing and information gathering skills when interacting with target management teams and functional leaders.
- Effectively communicate project priorities, findings, and expectations to engagement teams, ensuring efficient execution and high quality deliverables.
- Adapt communication style to different audiences, ranging from operational management to C suite executives, boards, and investors.
- Prepare and review client ready reports, presentations, and other transaction deliverables to a consistently high professional standard.
Leadership & Advisory Skills
- Build trusted relationships with clients, management teams, investors, and other transaction stakeholders.
- Demonstrate commercial awareness and an ability to understand transaction rationale, investment objectives, and broader market dynamics.
- Collaborate effectively across service lines to identify opportunities for broader client support and integrated deal solutions.
- Exercise sound judgment and make informed decisions in complex and fast paced transaction environments.
- Challenge assumptions constructively and provide independent, evidence based perspectives to clients and internal stakeholders.
- Coach, mentor, and develop junior team members through continuous feedback, technical guidance, and on the job training.
- Foster a high performance team environment that emphasizes quality, accountability, collaboration, and professional development.
- Establish clear performance expectations and support team members in achieving their career development objectives.
- Uphold the highest standards of professional integrity, ethics, independence, and risk management.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a 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 a related field.
- Proven experience managing due diligence engagements and leading teams in a professional services environment.
- Demonstrated transaction experience within the 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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