Financial Due Diligence Assistant Manager

About Interpath

Interpath Advisory is an international and fast-growing advisory business with expertise across deals, advisory and restructuring.

We offer the full spectrum of restructuring services from business performance improvement and value creation through to stress, distress and insolvency offerings. Our advisory practice consists of corporate finance, transaction services, valuations, debt advisory, tax, pensions, forensic accounting and e-discovery services.

Our teams combine specialist technical knowledge with deep sector experience to help businesses, investors and stakeholders navigate complex financial challenges and make critical decisions.

The team

This role sits in Interpath's Transaction Services practice. You will work on financial due diligence for buy-side and sell-side transactions alongside Interpath Global deal teams, on engagements.

The role

You will build the underlying analysis that every conclusion in the report rests on — accurately, and on time.

Requirements

What you will be doing

• Take ownership of defined areas of analysis within a workstream and see them through to a reviewable standard.
• Build the underlying financial analysis on which the team's conclusions rest, covering trading performance, margins and other key measures.
• Prepare working capital, net debt and other supporting schedules and exhibits.
• Reconcile the analysis back to source records, including management accounts, statutory accounts and the trial balance.
• Prepare tables and charts for the report to the standard the team requires.
• Maintain the information request list and flag items that have not been received.
• Support the question-and-answer process and help prepare for management meetings.
• Address review points properly, resolving the underlying issue rather than the symptom.
• Raise issues as soon as they arise. An anomaly that cannot be explained is a finding, not an inconvenience.

What we are looking for

• Qualified accountant or finalist — CA (ICAI), CA (SA), ACA, ACCA or equivalent OR MBA in Finance or equivalent.
• Around 5 to 8 years of experience, of which at least 3 in financial due diligence, or in audit with genuine deals exposure.
• A sound working command of quality of earnings, net debt and working capital analysis.
• Strong Excel skills. Accuracy under time pressure is central to the role.