Corporate Transactions Group - FDD - Senior Director

Corporate Transactions Group - FDD - Senior Director

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Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a leading global professional services firm providing advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. A&M is privately held, founded in 1983, and serves corporate clients worldwide, leveraging deep expertise to drive transformation and deliver tangible results.

CTG, a subsidiary of A&M, provides a structured, disciplined approach to create and capture value throughout the M&A deal cycle. CTG offers end‑to‑end corporate services—including commercial due diligence, market entry assessment, financial and operational due diligence, tax diligence and structuring assistance, business modeling and synergy assessment, integration & separation planning, and support executing the plan to deliver enterprise value.

• Counsel and mentor all levels of employees.
• Handle personnel matters with employees effectively, including but not limited to difficult career counseling situations.
• Proactively recruit individuals of all levels for CTG.
• Engage in training initiatives to develop CTG employees.
• Serve as a mentor for employees of CTG from staff through Director.
• Understand and abide by risk management guidelines and engagement review memo procedures.
• Appropriately manage engagement risk and potential client or engagement issues (including conflicts, etc.).
• Develop and propose creative solutions to engagement and transaction risks and effectively manage problem resolution.
• Gather applicable conflict check information and coordinate with Managing Directors to set up engagement codes and other engagement requirements.
• Manage and prioritize engagements and responsibilities appropriately.
• Manage multiple simultaneous chargeable and non-chargeable projects of varying size and complexity.
• Help engagement executives in maximizing the value the client is receiving from A&M.
• Lead the financial due diligence work on all projects, including quality of earnings, working capital analyses, debt and debt-like items analyses, general financial statement analysis and other operational and financial analytics.
• Effectively lead the team in conversations with clients, management teams and other stakeholders.
• Identify potential transaction risks and implement strategies to address such risks.
• Act as subject matter expert in technical accounting subjects relevant to CTG.
• Coordinate with all other A&M service groups and functional areas during an engagement.
• Generate a comprehensive due diligence report and integrate findings from other practice areas into such report.
• Proactively manage client relationships and ensure all client needs are met.
• Assist Managing Directors in sales and business development efforts.
• Contribute to sales pursuits by building relationships in the market and generating new client business and/or adding business from current clients.
• Participate in relevant industry conferences and utilize such to deepen current client relationships.
• Display core understanding of all CTG services and strive to cross-sell CTG and other A&M services.
• Build relationships in relevant sectors and drive new business opportunities in CTG and across A&M.

• A minimum of 10 years of financial accounting due diligence experience at a top accounting firm.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in accounting and/or related major.
• Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent of a CPA.
• Working knowledge of US GAAP, SEC reporting, and purchase accounting.
• High proficiency in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and database skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) including the ability to articulate to senior members of target management, client representatives and colleagues.
• Strong project management skills.
• Flexibility to work as both a team member in a collaborative setting and as an individual contributor.
• Ability to travel for project needs and A&M specific needs and opportunities (e.g., training, internal meetings, etc.).
• Ability to thrive and be effective in fast‑paced…