Assistant Director, M&A, Sales and Purchase Agreement (SPA), Completion Accounts

Deloitte

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 23 days ago
Connect to your IndustryJoin Deloitte's thriving Completion Accounts team within our SPA Advisory practice and work on high-profile and dynamic M&A assignments. You'll gain diverse experience across corporate and private equity transactions in a highly commercial, client-focused environment.We collaborate closely with clients and their advisors, providing dedicated support for completion account mechanisms pre- and post-completion. This includes advising clients on estimated balance sheets (pre-completion) and preparing or reviewing draft completion accounts (post-completion). We work for both buyers and sellers, ensuring agreement on completion accounts and securing a fair price for our clients in their acquisitions or disposals.Our team is integrated within wider deal teams, including financial due diligence, tax, and sales & purchase agreement specialists, often working on global M&A transactions with cross-border and cross-service line teams. This provides excellent networking opportunities across the UK and international Deloitte network, working on high-profile assignments alongside industry leaders.Connect to your career at DeloitteDeloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.Connect to your opportunityOur team provides dedicated completion accounts support throughout transactions. Our core function is assisting in the preparation or review of estimated and draft completion accounts to determine the final purchase price. This involves understanding the target business, the sale and purchase agreement (SPA), the SPA's accounting policies, client commercial objectives, and the impact on working capital, cash, debt, and ultimately, the purchase price.The Assistant Director role will include:Transaction Support
  • Developing a rapid understanding of target businesses and key drivers.
  • Collaborating closely with due diligence teams to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Reviewing transaction documentation, including sale and purchase agreements (SPAs), financial information, and draft completion accounts.
  • Specifically, analysing accounting policies and definitions within the SPA.
  • Preparing and reviewing draft completion accounts, dispute notices, and counter-arguments based on SPA parameters.
  • Delivering clear, actionable recommendations to clients.
Project Management
  • Managing project timelines, budgets, and client communication effectively.
  • Proactively identifying and managing project risks.
  • Ensuring high-quality deliverables are produced within agreed deadlines.
  • Briefing Partners/Directors on project progress and key findings.
Business Development
  • Contributing to marketing initiatives and practice development activities. (e.g. client presentations, account management).
  • Identifying and pursuing sales opportunities.
Connect to your skills and professional experienceEssential
  • ACA qualification or equivalent
  • Meticulous attention to detail
  • Adaptability and flexibility in a fast-paced environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a focus on conciseness and risk management
  • Strong commercial acumen and assertive personality to thrive under pressure
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills for effective negotiation and senior-level interaction
  • Client-focused approach, ensuring consistently high-quality service
Desirable
  • Experience in corporate and private equity transactions, disputes, or completion accounts
  • Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
  • Proven ability to deliver high-quality client service
Connect to your business - Strategy, Risk & Transactions AdvisoryIn an ever-evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future-proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.Mergers and AcquisitionsWe challenge dealmakers to expect more and to see beyond the deal to create sustainable value for shareholders, employees and society. We support corporates, private equity and financial investors across the full M&A lifecycle and are committed to identifying and delivering sustainable value at every stage of the deal.Personal independenceRegulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.Connect with your colleagues“Since joining the Deloitte SPA team, I have had amazing opportunities to learn directly from the best in the market, with constant deal-flow in a dynamic and supporting environment to hone my skills and progress my career in a fast growing area within M&A”- Olivia, SPA, SR&TAOur hybrid working policyYou'll be based in one of our UK locations with hybrid working.At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.Connect to your return to work opportunityAre you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of two years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.Our commitment to youMaking an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.Connect to your next stepA career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level.Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careersRTWPROG WPFULL SLSRTA LOCOFFICEWPFULL SLFINA BARSTR SLFINATS LOCGLA LOCEDI

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