Financial Due Diligence Manager

Management Level Manager Job Description & Summary This is an exciting opportunity to join as a Manager in a dynamic team to do financial due diligence. You will analyse financial and non-financial information supporting our client’s investment and deal hypothesis. You will prepare comprehensive financial due diligence reports and communicate due diligence findings using our cloud-based platform to assist our clients with their deal related decision making. You will also be responsible for interacting with senior management, investment advisors and business owners to understand areas such historic and projected business performance among wider commercial issues. Team Summary: In PwC Transaction Services South Africa (TS), we support a wide range of clients including corporate clients, private equity firms and investment funds on merger, acquisition and divesture transactions throughout the lifecycle of the deal. We work on both buy-side and sell-side transactions, where our people develop specialist sector and due diligence experience. We have an excellent reputation of bringing deep industry expertise and actionable insights through analysis and deals experience. Enhancing your leadership style, you motivate, develop and inspire others to deliver quality. You are responsible for coaching, leveraging team member’s unique strengths, and managing performance to deliver on client expectations. With your growing knowledge of how business works, you play an important role in identifying opportunities that contribute to the success of our Firm. You are expected to lead with integrity and authenticity, articulating our purpose and values in a meaningful way. You embrace technology and innovation to enhance your delivery and encourage others to do the same. Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.

• CA (SA)

• Must have at least 1 or more year/s financial due diligence experience (not a newly qualified CA/(SA));
• Excellent financial analytical skills and commercial awareness;
• An interest in and knowledge of the financial markets;
• Good understanding of IFRS and accounting standards;
• Excellent report writing skills;
• Excellent excel skills;
• Good experience with Alteryx, PowerBI and other data analytics and visualisation tools;
• Adhere to and promote quality and risk management standards;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Good interpersonal and client relationship skills;
• A well-organised and self-directed individual who can relate to people at all levels of an organization;
• Proven ability to multitask and ensure effective delivery of the priorities to meet targets and objectives;
• A proactive and energetic team player, who works effectively under pressure and can deal with a dynamic work environment;
• Industry experience in any of the following is advantageous: Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, Renewable Energy, Fintech, Banking and Capital Markets, Mining, Utilities, Energy, Industrial Products, Logistics, Transport, Consumer, Leisure, Technology, Telecommunications, Media, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Real Estate, Facilities Management.

• Perform and prepare financial analysis from structured and unstructured data sets using data tools;
• Be open to continuous learning and to embrace GenAI, technological enablement and personal upskilling in the firm's data and technological tools as they evolve;
• Develop visualisations to effectively communicate findings;
• Extract key commercial and deal insights from financial and non-financial data;
• Identify key drivers of a business and potential deal breakers (financial and non-financial);
• Write succinct, well-structured reports;
• Perform risk management activities;
• Effectively lead meetings with clients and senior personnel;
• Interact and coordinate with workstreams other than financial DD, i.e. Tax DD, HC DD, IT DD, commercial DD, etc.

• There is an expectation that work will occur mostly from the office, however remote working is possible.
• Occasionally, one will work on virtual UK projects to gain global deals experience.