FRP Advisory Group
Associate Director - Corporate Finance
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Job Title: Associate Director - Corporate Finance
Location: Leeds
Job Type: Permanent – Full Time – Onsite
Role overview
The Associate Director – Corporate Finance will work with a Partner or Director to lead the execution of transactions on a day-to-day basis, focusing on driving the transaction timetable. The role involves general project management, preparing and reviewing key documents, originating and delivering potential client ideas, developing pitch documents, and providing leadership to junior team members.
Key Responsibilities
- Working with a Partner or Director, lead the execution of transactions on a day-to-day basis, focusing on driving the transaction timetable
- General project management, working alongside and assisting more senior members of the team and directing the work of more junior members, providing detailed review of juniors' work prior to Partner/Director review
- Preparing or reviewing all key documents (IM, Business plan, Heads of Terms, financial models) and having input into deal strategy and tactics with Director/Partner
- Originate and deliver potential client ideas, identifying opportunities, opening and leveraging relationships
- Lead the development of pitch documents and take a leading role in client pitches
- Develop your own business network with a view to increasing your origination capabilities over the medium term, including opportunities to present at seminars/events
- Provide leadership to junior team members producing Information Memoranda, financial models, and other transaction documentation
- Take ownership and responsibility for one or more team functions such as training, people development, quality, finances, etc
- Demonstrate strong understanding of deal rationale and provide insight on third parties to clients and partner/director accordingly
- Use experience of deals to increase breadth of deal documents input to, including funds flow, SPA, Heads of Terms, locked box papers
- Lead on take on and risk processes, ensuring compliance with regulations and FRP policies. Ensure client files are maintained appropriately and are compliant with FRP policy at Completion
- Identify potential deal opportunities and develop ideas for approaching and originating deals
- Develop your own business network with a view to increasing your origination capabilities over the medium term
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Qualifications
- Strong experience in a corporate finance environment, including leading transactions
- Experience with buyside, sellside, and MBO transactions, including private equity
- Ability to identify targets and prospects for M&A activity
- Degree educated and/or Chartered accountant with at least three years’ experience
- Advanced knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong Excel/financial modelling skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Familiarity with key financial data providers such as Capital IQ/Bloomberg
Our Values
- Straightforward: We provide clear, no-nonsense advice
- Confident: Our guidance is backed by expertise and evidence
- Pragmatic: We focus on practical solutions and tangible outcomes
- Real: We are professional yet approachable, understanding the challenges our clients face
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Our Commitment to You and the Environment
At FRP, sustainability is integral to our strategy and operations. Our sustainability depends on building and maintaining meaningful, long-term relationships with all our stakeholders – including our employees, clients, and local communities – while also reducing our impact on the natural environment.
We are always striving to improve in all areas – whether it’s our people, our clients, our planet or our governance. Our ongoing success as a business depends on our sustainability and agility in a changing and challenging global landscape.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and diverse culture for our people. We maintain an Equal Opportunities Policy, ensuring that recruitment and employment decisions are based solely on the skills and experience required for our professional services — regardless of ethnicity, race, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic. We believe every individual should have the opportunity to thrive.
Our learning and development programmes enable us to invest in growing our employees’ careers. We aim to empower our team members to each achieve their potential.
We are committed to growing long-term relationships with our clients and supporting them in achieving their objectives. We understand that our clients’ sustainability and success lead to our sustainability and success. We are emotionally invested in our clients right from the beginning.
Workplace type: On-site
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