M&A Assistant Director - M&A Consumer Brands Team

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our clients’ affairs. The team work across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they’re experts in following through on top-level instructions and resolving the finer details – all in one straight-forward package. When you join them, you’ll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.

We’ll help you succeed

You’ll be an Assistant Director to our high performing Consumer Brands sector M&A team in London. This team provides entrepreneurs, corporates and private equity houses with a full suite of M&A services advising on exits, capital raisings, acquisitions, divestments and buy-outs. Retail is a core sector for BDO; it is very fast paced, evolving quickly with an enormous volume of M&A at the moment, as such we are looking for a new Assistant Director to join a growing and successful team.

The M&A Consumer Brands team sits within a wider national M&A team of 120 people and is part of a large professional services organisation. The firm has a very positive working environment allowing for growth and progression. You’ll also:

• Leading M&A projects through to completion, including all aspects of:
• Creating information memorandums, management presentations, teasers, pitch books, etc.
• Providing valuations and financial analysis through modelling
• Leading project management, including oversight of due diligence and client and buyer interaction, and management of the project team on a day-to-day basis.
• Contributing and playing an active role in the development of new business relationships, marketing and business proposals, including:
• Development of target and potential transactions, including both buy and sell side mandates
• Liaising with external counterparties (lawyers, private equity etc.)
• Act as a mentor to team members and provide coaching with a view to assisting them to achieve their personal career goals, including:
• People management responsibilities covering resource planning and allocation, performance management
• Support to the appraisal process, training and recommendations for promotion.

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:

• A good understanding of, and experience in, advising clients on both buy-side and sell-side work, and will have led projects to a successful close. Your experience will involve working with private companies, owner-managed businesses and private equity houses, preferably in the retail and consumer sector
• ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent), or relevant work experience
• Previous staff management or supervisory experience

We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 28 days’ holiday;
• Private medical insurance;
• 6% cash benefits allowance;
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover;
• and income protection insurance

That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:

• buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
• enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
• enjoy discounts off dining, and gyms;
• receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
• take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

Are you ready to join them?

Our Agency Policy

BDO has a commitment to building relationships directly with candidates (and agencies) in our local markets and as such, we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. We work closely with our preferred suppliers to support us in sourcing quality candidates but we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the BDO Resourcing team. We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to BDO by any means other than through our recruitment portal. For any CVs which are submitted without instruction from the BDO Resourcing team, BDO reserves the right to contact and work directly with these candidates without payment of any agency fee.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.