Transaction Support Analyst

Opportunity to join an M&A leader specialising in the sale of mid-market companies (SME’s).

This team identifies possible M&A “sellers”, these being companies generally within the R50 - R500 million turnover range, across sectors, often entrepreneurs and owner managed businesses. The company then does the required due diligence / analysis, and then packages the product (company) to attract relevant buyers.

The Transaction Support Analyst role has technical, people / soft skills and project elements to it, all equally important:

• Technical : Gather comprehensive information (via multiple sources) to do accurate due diligence on a potential “seller”. This includes analysing and interpreting the clients’ financial situation, including historic, current and expected future performance. Ensuring clean data is inputted to financial models etc, to assess various scenarios. Produce 3-year forecast business plans when required.
• People / soft skills : ability to hold conversation / engage a potential “seller” and be curious to best understand the financials, nuances of the business, how the company is being run, deal with client sensitivities whilst keeping the client moving forward through the process at a steady pace.
• Project : to stay with the transaction (transaction support team), creating sell-side marketing strategies and materials (communicating complex information in a clear / concise manner), continually updating financial models, interpreting synergies as identified by the transaction team for respective interested parties (acquirers / investors), and tailoring the financial models to effectively incorporate these synergies.

The ideal candidate:

• Technically sound in ability to read, understand, interpret financials
• BCom in Financial Accounting or Finance.
• And / or practical experience as a bookkeeper / accountant / financial manager in a SME business.
• Good exposure to the SME market - understanding that information is not as visibly available as larger corporates, so tenacity to dig deeper to find the information needed (middle market audit firms with SME clients exposure would be beneficial)
• Ideally have a keen interest in business, and comfortable engaging with clients, also engaging with the company’s own young energetic team of passionate individuals.
• Be well organised and detailed - record keeping, routine database activity, spreadsheets etc
• 2-5 years working experience in/around the SME sector.

Offices are based in the East Rand, Johannesburg.

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