Corporate Finance Senior Executive

Our Corporate Finance team specialise in mergers and acquisitions. We make an impact by advising our clients on buying, selling, and raising growth finance for their businesses. We are a market leading firm, ranking as one of the 5th largest firms nationally based on transaction volumes. Our deals range in value, typically from £1m to £50m. We are a highly experienced award-winning team that provide high-intensity deal management. Corporate Finance is all about combining a wide range of advisory skills to achieve the right solution for our clients. To achieve this, your role will involve researching markets, deal marketing, people skills, commercial awareness, and financial analysis.

Working closely with our award-winning team you will gain a high level of exposure to corporate acquisitions, disposals, management-buy-outs, management-buy-ins and fundraising. You will have the opportunity to directly impact transactions, develop your technical skills and develop your network.

The important work you will be doing:

Your day-to-day duties and key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Research and analysis into potential buyers, acquisition targets and markets.
• Analysing and evaluating financial information.
• Producing key sales documentation, management presentations and reports.
• Forecasting, financial modelling, and assisting clients with creating business plans.
• Providing support on transaction project management.
• Liaising with all transaction stakeholders including opposing advisors, legal teams, due diligence providers, tax advisers and other intermediaries.
• Supporting on transaction strategy and negotiations.
• Contributing to business development, supporting on pitches and deal origination.
• Building and maintaining relationships with the M&A community, including private equity, funders, corporates, law firms and other advisers.

The skills and experience you will bring:

• ACA, CFQ or ACCA qualified.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Proven time and project management skills.
• Spreadsheet/modelling experience and a logical, analytical mind.
• Exceptional communication skills, including report writing.
• An aptitude for and desire to be actively involved with business development.
• A strong desire to progress and develop your career.

Why PKF Smith Cooper?

Our company culture, built on our values – Engage, Empower and Excel – encourages initiative, personal growth, and collaboration. Every team member is appreciated and celebrated; a notion embodied in our Kudos Reward Scheme.

The firm’s Partners, who remain actively invested in the development of employees, will both support and champion your professional development and progression.

We work with ambitious businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors, so no two jobs are the same.

We are multi-award-winning accountants and business advisors, ranked the 11th biggest firm by UK fee income in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50.

PKF International

As an active member of PKF International, we are part of a large global network of legally independent accounting firms.

Located in the 5 fastest growing global markets, we have ground presence in 150 countries and span across many jurisdictions.

An ambitious, future-focused network, PKF provides a comprehensive range of services. Operating in unison with member firms across the world, we are able to share our ideas, expertise, and specialist resources to better serve our clients, delivering highly-personalised services and global connectivity through our client-centric culture.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits package has been designed around our people and shaped by our values. As part of Team PKF Smith Cooper, here are some of the things you can expect:

• A working environment that empowers you to perform at your best, through our flexible working policy and dress for your diary scheme.
• Time to do what matters to you – 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays, the option to reduce annual hours for additional annual leave, and your birthday off, on us. Long-serving employees can also request a sabbatical, giving you the chance to make truly unforgettable memories.
• Rewards for those who actively embrace and embody our values and culture through our Kudos Reward Scheme.
• Regular social events and annual, company-wide away days, giving you the opportunity to engage with colleagues across your division and office, as well as the wider firm.
• Bonus referral schemes for introducing new talent or clients so that when we benefit, you do too.
• Life doesn’t stop at the end of the working day and neither do our benefits. We also offer life assurance, discounts on a huge variety of retailers through the PKF Smith Cooper Rewards Scheme and cashback on healthcare (including dental visits, physiotherapy etc) through Healthshield.