Walker Lovell
Corporate Finance Analyst
Chiswick
£60k – £65k/yr
Posted about 16 hours ago
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What's in it for you?
If you've built your foundations in Transaction Services and want to move into M&A, this is an opportunity to make that transition without leaving your existing skill set behind.
- You'll join an established Corporate Finance team where you'll be trained in live M&A deal execution from the outset, working directly alongside experienced dealmakers across the transaction lifecycle.
- At the same time, your Transaction Services experience will be highly valued, giving you the opportunity to contribute to and help develop the team's due diligence capability.
- It's an opportunity to broaden from TS into a more rounded Corporate Finance role, combining transaction analysis and due diligence with hands-on M&A experience.
Package
- Competitive base salary, expected to be in the region of £60,000–£65,000, with flexibility for an exceptional candidate
- Lucrative bonus structure
- Direct mentoring from experienced Corporate Finance professionals
- Hands-on exposure to live M&A transactions
- Clear long-term progression within a growing Corporate Finance team
Why this business
- Our client is a well-established accountancy and advisory firm with a long-standing reputation for delivering specialist advice.
- Its Corporate Finance practice is continuing to develop its M&A and Transaction Services capabilities, creating an opportunity for an Analyst who can bring existing due diligence experience while developing into a broader M&A professional.
- You'll join a team where you'll have direct access to senior dealmakers, meaningful responsibility and the opportunity to build experience across both M&A execution and Transaction Services, rather than remaining within a narrowly defined due diligence role.
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What you'll be doing
- Work alongside experienced Corporate Finance professionals on live M&A transactions, developing hands-on experience across the deal lifecycle
- Apply your existing Transaction Services experience to financial due diligence assignments
- Analyse historical and forecast financial performance, identifying key commercial and financial trends
- Support financial analysis, valuation, modelling and transaction-related research
- Build robust Excel workbooks, analytical reports and client presentations
- Work directly with senior members of the team and develop your understanding of how M&A transactions are originated, managed and executed
- Contribute to the continued development of the firm's due diligence offering
- Build a broader Corporate Finance skill set combining Transaction Services and M&A deal advisory
What you'll bring
- Around 2–3 years' experience within Transaction Services / Financial Due Diligence
- Ideally, experience gained within a lower mid-market accountancy or advisory environment
- Strong financial analysis skills and confidence interrogating financial information
- Advanced Excel skills and the ability to produce high-quality analysis and client-facing materials
- Strong commercial awareness, analytical thinking and communication skills
- A proactive, collaborative approach and genuine interest in developing beyond Transaction Services into M&A
- ACA qualification is not essential; candidates from different professional qualification backgrounds will be considered
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Who this suits
- This opportunity is particularly well suited to someone currently working in Transaction Services who wants to make the move into M&A deal advisory.
- You may have spent the last couple of years building strong financial due diligence and analytical skills but now want broader exposure: working on live M&A transactions, understanding the full deal process and developing the commercial and execution skills required to become a rounded Corporate Finance professional.
- You'll still use the TS expertise you've developed, but it won't define your role. From the outset, the team will train you in M&A execution while giving you opportunities to contribute to due diligence assignments where your existing experience adds immediate value.
- For someone looking to make the TS-to-M&A transition within the lower mid-market, this offers a particularly strong platform to do so.
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Skills
M&A Deal Execution
Financial Due Diligence
Financial Analysis
Valuation
Financial Modelling
Transaction Research
Advanced Excel
Commercial Awareness
Analytical Thinking
Communication Skills