Job Title:  Assistant Manager | ICC | Mumbai | SPA | Mergers & Acquisitions FA ICC

Your potential, unleashed.

India’s impact on the global economy has increased at an exponential rate and Deloitte presents an opportunity to unleash and realise your potential amongst cutting edge leaders, and organisations shaping the future of the region, and indeed, the world beyond.

At Deloitte, your whole self to work, every day. Combine that with our drive to propel with purpose and you have the perfect playground to collaborate, innovate, grow, and make an impact that matters.

The team

Due diligence is now regarded as one of the most important milestones in a deal process and corporate finance. Alongside that supporting clients in financial distress

We offer a wide range of services, with projects tailored to a client's individual needs.

We provide dedicated support throughout the deal / transaction lifecycle from initial evaluation through the post-merger integration. We work across numerous industries and markets.

Typically, this involves the investigation of the target from a variety of perspectives to ensure significant value items, risks and other matters have been identified and considered by our client and assisting them in making an informed decision regarding the transaction.

Our core services include acquisition and vendor due diligence, bid support and defence and reporting accountant services for capital market transactions. In addition we support on supporting companies who are in distress or who require refinancing. We also often work on international assignments involving cross-border as well as cross-service line teams requiring our people to build wide networks across the International firm.

Globally, the Deloitte SPA team works side-by-side with the client and its legal advisors providing dedicated support on over 100 transactions per year. Typically, this involves advising clients in developing contractual solutions to financial and commercial issues identified through due diligence, including advising on purchase price adjustments mechanisms and completion accounts policies in the transaction agreements being negotiated.

Your work profile

As an Assistant Manager in our Transaction Services - SPA Team you’ll build and nurture positive working relationships with teams and clients with the intention to exceed client expectations: -

A career within the transaction services team will provide a wide and valuable range of experience in an exciting, dynamic and challenging working and learning environment. The role will include the following activities:

• Lead and manage projects along with taking ownership of the deliverables with help from junior team members
• Lead and manage a team of junior members, along with developing, maintaining and leveraging relationships with relevant stakeholders
• Quickly developing an understanding of the target business and its drivers
• Interpretation, evaluation and analysis of information memoranda, business plans, publicly available information on the target business
• Working closely with due diligence teams to identify areas of risk
• Production of quality deliverables (including Excel and word documents) within agreed timescales, briefing Partner/Director/Senior Manager/Manager accordingly. On larger deals this may involve responsibility for the production of discrete sections. This will include reviewing the sale and purchase agreement for:
• Assessing the suitability of the pricing mechanism (for example, locked box; completion accounts and/or earn-out) and associated accounting based definitions
• Considering the appropriateness of key financial warranties and indemnities
• Developing robust accounting policies for completion accounts based mechanisms
• Work on a variety of transactions in a variety of industries
• Be part of cross border teams from 2 to 10 on engagements lasting from just a few days to several months
• Work with some of the most intellectually stimulating clients
• Assist clients from large multinationals, private equity houses to owner managed businesses
• Longer term, potential opportunities for international secondment

Desired qualifications

CA / CFA (International)

• CA qualified (ideally first time passes) or equivalent qualification/experience
• Excellent academic track record
• Experience of working on transactions, disputes or completion accounts would be an advantage.
• Strong report writing and reviewing skills, with an appropriate focus on attention to detail, conciseness and risk management
• Strong excel skills - quick and accurate manipulation of data
• Strong commercial acumen and market awareness
• Focused on high quality service
• Fluency in written & verbal English
• A flexible working style and an ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances and priorities

Location and way of working

• Base location: Mumbai
• This profile does not involve extensive travel for work.
• Hybrid is our default way of working. Each domain has customised the hybrid approach to their unique needs.

Your role as a Assistant Manager

We expect our people to embrace and live our purpose by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society.

In addition to living our purpose, Senior Executive across our organization must strive to be:

• Inspiring - Leading with integrity to build inclusion and motivation
• Committed to creating purpose - Creating a sense of vision and purpose
• Agile - Achieving high-quality results through collaboration and Team unity
• Skilled at building diverse capability - Developing diverse capabilities for the future
• Persuasive / Influencing - Persuading and influencing stakeholders
• Collaborating - Partnering to build new solutions
• Delivering value - Showing commercial acumen
• Committed to expanding business - Leveraging new business opportunities
• Analytical Acumen - Leveraging data to recommend impactful approach and solutions through the power of analysis and visualization
• Effective communication – Must be well abled to have well-structured and well-articulated conversations to achieve win-win possibilities
• Engagement Management / Delivery Excellence - Effectively managing engagement(s) to ensure timely and proactive execution as well as course correction for

the success of engagement(s)

• Managing change - Responding to changing environment with resilience
• Managing Quality & Risk - Delivering high quality results and mitigating risks with utmost integrity and precision
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving - Applying strategic mindset to solve business issues and complex problems
• Tech Savvy - Leveraging ethical technology practices to deliver high impact for clients and for Deloitte
• Empathetic leadership and inclusivity - creating a safe and thriving environment where everyone's valued for who they are, use empathy to understand others to adapt our behaviours and attitudes to become more inclusive.