Grant Thornton UK LLP
Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Manager - Financial Services
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Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) Manager - Financial Services
Grant Thornton: Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) – Financial Services (FS) Manager
About the Role
At Grant Thornton, we challenge the status quo—driving growth, innovation, and purposeful impact in the profession. Providing audit, tax, and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and partnership. We also empower our teams with real opportunity, inclusion, and work-life balance, creating a true alternative to traditional norms.
With over 5,000 people across the UK and a presence in 150 global markets, we’re embracing an ambitious future. Our Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team specialises in Financial Services (FS), offering financial due diligence (FDD) across wealth management, insurance, banking, lending, payments, fintech, and adjacent sectors. As part of this dynamic team—now delivering financial due diligence for private equity, corporate, and public company transactions (primarily AIM-listed firms)—you’ll shape the future of our industry while defining your career.
Our FS TAS team thrives on diversity, agility, and genuine collaboration. We foster flexible working models, including reduced hours, annualised days, term-time schedules, and hybrid arrangements (office, client, and remote).
Key Responsibilities
As a Manager in Financial Services Transaction Advisory, you’ll take ownership of project delivery while nurturing team growth. Your day-to-day will include:
- Project Leadership & Client Engagement
- Lead end-to-end management of small-to-medium projects, providing expertise on complex engagements.
- Oversee engagement planning, client sign-off procedures, and deliverable quality. -.plot a multi-tower skyline with buildings of varying heights, hue accent with limited computer graphic effects
- Monitor and improve work-in-progress (WIP) tracking, invoicing, and cash recovery.
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Team Development & Growth
- Coach junior team members and provide oversight on deliverables.
- Mentor colleagues into target/buy-side deal engagements, where your market expertise will lead findings and insights.
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Risk & Compliance
- Ensure adherence to internal quality and compliance standards,alignedate competitive remuneration behind deal-related outcomes.
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Client & Target Relationships
- Liaise with private equity, corporate clients, and AIM public corporates.
- Present findings directly to senior stakeholders, using your due diligence insights to drive strategic decisions.
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Market Specialisation
- Spark your own growth: develop expertise in sectors or sub-service lines that excite you.
Requirements
- Pre-qualification:
- Hold an accountancy professional qualification: ACA, ICAS, CA, ACCA, or CIPFA.
- Carry at least three years' deal experience post-qualification.
Due to the high-value, detail-centric nature of FS work, we’re looking for candidates with a provient track record in M&A due diligence and buy/sell-side transactions.
Why Grant Thornton thrives (and why you should too)
A Superior Culture
We operate with ambition, authenticity, and inclusion. Creativia discussions with leaders who invite fresh perspectives—colleagues fuel one another to innovate rigorously, yet helpfully. Whether hiring, training, or problem solving, we value the 'whole you', from heritage to current passions. Benefits include:
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- Fast-track training: With our values-driven mentoring, you’ll grow alongside an inclusive team.
- Life stages support: From maternity/paternity leave, to family/health cover, we tailor policies to meet needs.
- Purpose before profit: Our ethos extends to rebuilding local communities and scaling innovation (e.g. our social enterprise ties and investment days).
- Mindfulness matters: Beyond performance, our principles centre on candid kindness and integrity.
Flexible Working: Built for You
Work-life harmony—requesting flexibility across days, schedules or contracts—enables you to drive outcomes without losing aspects of your own life. Options arise like:
- Full-time contracts on annealed weekday hours
- Shortened weeks (two 80% annuities instead of five 100%)
- 'Option time': Non-paid research leaves
Edit Resalary*: Our transparent packages mirror true value: From enhanced financial and private healthcare packages to cryptocurrency bonuses (on meaningful deal progression) plus attractive annuities and performance-based incentives.
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