M&A Analyst

Overview

Role: M&A Analyst

Salary: £55,000 to £65,000 DOE, plus extensive benefits

Contract type:
Permanent

Employment type:
Full time

Working hours: We work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you. Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.6 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from requests through to delivery.

We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.

Location: We operate a hybrid schedule, meaning 2-3 days a week in the office based at Thorpe Park, Leeds.

• Work across the entire transaction lifecycle, from initial assessment through execution to post-merger integration, collaborating with internal teams, finance leadership (CFO, FD) and external advisors
• Work on prospective M&A targets - forecasting and building business cases
• Work with M&A Director and FD to build valuation models
• Perform financial due diligence
• Review and assess historical actual performance, trend analysis, KPIs and the overall health of the target company
• Quality of Earnings analysis
• Reviewing inconsistencies, challenging data, and providing financial expertise
• Challenge and assess forecast assumptions vs historical trading performance and KPIs
• Review of balance sheet trends, cash and working capital
• Analysis of net cash/debt and identification of debt-like items within the balance sheet
• Normalised EBITDA and working capital analysis
• Review of completion
• Conducting market and sector research, and competitor analysis
• Identifying and quantifying synergies and upside opportunities for both the target and the P2U Group
• Preparation of FDD reports to highlight potential risks and opportunities for consideration by the ELT/Board
• Integration planning with the wider business and across all areas of the finance team
• Post-acquisition reporting and tracking delivery of benefits and synergies
• Fulfilment of any post-acquisition deliverables such as completion accounts
• Working with external teams such as tax and legal advisers

• Experience of M&A either in industry or within a transaction services advisory team
• Experience of working in a dynamic environment, delivering against tight deadlines
• Qualified ACA/ACCA, with experience from a commercial and technical accounting background
• Advanced Excel skills
• Excellent report writing skills
• Experience in consolidation and acquisition accounting

Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.

Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.