Manager / Assistant Director, Transaction Advisory Group, Financial Due Diligence
Alvarez & Marsal
Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi
Alvarez & Marsal ("A&M") is a global consulting firm with $2.3+ billion in revenue, 6,000+ staff and 70+ offices around the globe. We offer a broad range of professional services including Transaction Advisory, Restructuring, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services.
Our Middle East practice is well established and one of the fastest growing advisory businesses in the region. Our leadership team is a collection of highly experienced professionals, and they are supported by an exceptional team drawn from industry and professional services.
The A&M Global Transaction Advisory Group ("TAG") is the largest transaction advisory (financial due diligence) practice outside the Big 4 audit firms. Our global TAG team includes over 600 professionals throughout US, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, India and Asia Pacific. Our Middle East team is highly experienced led by an established and highly regarded Managing Director. Our Middle East TAG team was setup just over a year ago and has earned an exceptional reputation for excellent work. They are highly active across the region working for sovereign wealth funds, global and regional private equity firms, multinational corporations and family offices on M&A and capital markets transactions in the Middle East and internationally.
A&M TAG have a unique opportunity to perform "smarter" due diligence by providing an integrated and differentiated approach. We are unrestricted by any conflict with audit mandates and the resulting issues caused that are typical in many of our competitors. We are also able to operate cross-border seamlessly due to our truly global organisational structure. All our teams are expanding around the world, and we have established A&M as the leading provider of Financial Due Diligence globally outside of the Big 4 audit firms. We are the Number 1 firm to develop a career in Transaction Advisory today.
A&M TAG have a unique delivery model that enables extensive exposure to high profile clients, Managing Directors and Senior Directors thus empowering individuals to fast-track their careers and development. We are expanding, and we are looking for experienced and ambitious Managers and Assistant Directors to join our TAG teams in Riyadh, Dubai and Abu Dhabi .
A&M is an environment that presents a real opportunity for ambitious individuals. Managers and Assistant Directors are encouraged to develop their client network and business development skills. Our base salaries and benefits are highly competitive, and our bonuses are uncapped and well known for their fairness and generosity correlating with the employees' contribution in business development and project execution to grow both Transaction Advisory and other A&M services.
As part of a select and highly skilled team, you will have the opportunity to:
Work on multiple Transaction Advisory engagements in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East and internationally, working closely with our Managing Directors;
Gain constant exposure to our Managing Directors, leveraging their substantial deal experience providing you the opportunity to learn on the job as well as through formal technical and soft skills training programs offered by A&M globally;
Use the commercial aspects of your financial analysis skills, in addition to gaining exposure to the key drivers and valuation considerations which drive a transaction;
Work alongside operational, commercial and tax due diligence professionals in integrated due diligence project teams enhancing your understanding of the broader due diligence and wider deal process;
Be proactively involved in commercial activities, business development, and marketing;
Network internally with our service lines and work on external marketing events to build cross- service line relationships; and
Be active in the market, supporting and enhancing existing client relationships and in originating new client relationships.
Key requirements:
Experience in Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) at a Big 4 audit firm is essential, preferably gained in the Middle East
A strong academic record and professional qualifications are helpful
Fluency in English is required. Additional language skills particularly fluency in Arabic is highly desirable
Highly ambitious and motivated with an entrepreneurial mindset.
A&M culture:
A&M is a growing business and TAG employees at all levels have extensive client exposure and the opportunity to be involved in business development activities. Team members are very much encouraged to build relationships with their client peers, planning and participating in relationship building activities. We recognise that building relationships with clients is crucial to building a platform for promotion and career development. Our culture is a highly dynamic and responsive one that has evolved out of excelling in complex and urgent situations. We are unrestricted by any conflict with audit mandates and the resulting issues caused that are typical in many of our competitors. Our Transaction Advisory team members work in multi-disciplinary teams on projects across a number of geographies so you would have the opportunity to build and leverage broad international deal experience.
Diversity & Inclusion
A&M's entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work-guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity-are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity and we foster inclusiveness. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.
Voluntary Inclusion
It is Alvarez & Marsal's policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.
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Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters were engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.
