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 in Abu Dhabi, specializing in financial due diligence for energy and natural resources. Requires significant experience in transaction services, strong analytical skills, and sector expertise.
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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, cash flow, 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
- Prepare and review high quality due diligence reports focused on matters relevant to client investment decisions
- 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
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management teams, investors, lenders, 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 the energy, natural resources, infrastructure, or related sectors
- Strong analytical, financial modelling, and financial statement analysis capabilities
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Core Technical Skills Financial Due Diligence & Transaction Execution
- 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.
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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