Senior Manager/Chief Manager - Strategy/M&A

Key Purpose of the Job:

Analyze industry and company prospects by gathering information. Be responsible for the research, evaluation, negotiation and closing deals according to the business strategy. Due diligence, pre acquisition/post-merger activities, transaction strategy to secure deal value.

Major responsibilities:

- Work closely with senior management in assessing the strategic fit of a business by analyzing all aspects of a transaction, assessing the projected synergies, project managing the deal cycle, assisting in negotiations, and conducting financial modelling.

- Leverage off an extensive global network, empowering you to provide sector-focused advice on the sale process from strategic positioning to close, and help execute acquisitions, alliances and mergers

- Preparing reports and key documentation for fund-raising, acquisitions and disposals.

- Identifying opportunities, opening and leveraging relationships

- Meeting timetable by ensuring quality on deliverables as well as engaging with BU Head and other advisers to ensure transaction milestones are met

- Understanding the key business drivers as well as identifying, and managing key issues and risks through insights, factual conclusions and advice

- Working closely with the leadership team to formulate the business's medium to long term financial and strategic plan

- Work with Business Unit heads to build their annual budgets and forecasts

- Prepare Product cost analysis of the business

- Producing models to project long term growth and determine the impacting business factors

- Delivery of competitor analysis, market trends and associated commentary to the Leadership team

- Analyzing financial and operational results to better understand company performance

- Utilizing BI tools to delivery meaningful insights into business performance

- Communicate to senior management the reasons behind the product/department performance and results

- Preparing business cases to support new investment, strategic and other business decisions

- Reviewing existing processes and procedures to develop recommendations for improvement efforts

- Evaluating previous budgets, expenditures to develop and implement future budgets

- Communicating results and recommendations to senior management for improvements that will lead to cost optimization, revenue generation and streamlining operations

- Provide insights to senior management around financial modelling, forecasts and profitability

- Managing a team of Financial and Business Analysts

- Financial Analysis driving profitability: Provide and present meaningful, concise, and analysis, including variance analysis to senior management on financial issues and performance (actual versus budget/forecast/prior quarter/prior year etc.)

- MIS reporting: Publishing various dashboards to leadership team.