The Role

Our client is a global leader in Transaction Services and the chosen business partner for many of the world's leading organisations. With a current annual turnover of £125m and growing, they consistently deliver outstanding growth across all product areas - creating career opportunities for ambitious professionals who share their passion for business.

Their multidisciplinary approach means their expertise spans the complete transaction chain including initial assessment, structuring, financial and commercial due diligence, assistance with contracts and much more including organisational integration and separation advice. This is reflected in the breadth of transactions they are involved in - from IPO's, acquisitions and disposals to joint ventures and private equity related projects. They are recruiting across a number of different industry sectors and many of their clients are household names and global market leaders in their marketplace:

1. Private Equities Group
2. Consumer and Industrial Markets (CIM)  which covers a wide range of industry sectors from retail to automotive, from food and drink to pharmaceuticals
3. Financial Services (FS) services clients in the financial sector including retail and investment banking, insurance, wealth management and leasing.
4. Information Communication and Entertainment (ICE)
5. Infrastructure and Government (I& G) services five main industries: property, construction, transport, Central Government, Health and Private Finance Initiative & Public Private Partnership projects

Their Strategic and Commercial Intelligence unit provides commercial due diligence support and strategic input to companies. Their team of 70 experts is growing. Their experts collect market data from many sources and generate data if required. They have access to a growing "expert network", giving us access to niche experts in most areas. With strong national and growing international presence and capability, the group's service offering complements the wider range of our client services and they are recruiting across a number of different industry sectors.

Future opportunities also exist for overseas secondments to SCI groups across Europe, the US and Asia Pacific.

If you have strong analytical, strategic and commercial experience and would like to apply your skills in a dynamic, transactions related environment where projects are often time pressured, the need to add insight is high, but the opportunity to be at the heart of a transaction and personally develop is significant, then SCI represents a very attractive career opportunity.

The Responsibilities

The projects that SCI work on are often time pressured and will involve working in a variety of project teams. Working as a manager in a team your responsibilities will include the following:

• Manage and/or deliver market reviews, strategic studies, business planning and other complex projects
• Deliver on larger projects by leading significant work streams
• Managing and monitoring the work of junior analysts and researchers
• Management and contribution to the development of junior staff
• Actively manage the client interface and take responsibility for delivery and fulfilment of projects
• Involvement in business development and in particular preparing: bids and proposals programmes and project plans
• Building or maintaining client relationships in both corporate and financial institutions
• Research and analyse data, review or create models, develop customer and supplier interview programmes, develop hypotheses, identify key issues, draft presentations and present findings

The Person

To succeed in this demanding role you will need to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Strong academic background and ACA qualified or MBA or with 4 - 5 years+ experience gained in corporate roles, public sector bodies, strategic consultancy, investment banking, corporate M& A or similar analytical and transaction experience
• Where candidates have no ACA qualification they must be able to demonstrate strong financial analysis skills
• Experience of working as part of a team having had significant responsibility within project teams. A strong understanding of project management disciplines is necessary
• Experience of working in client facing role delivering high quality work to tight deadlines
• Ability to identify critical data and intelligence sources and ensure that conclusions drawn are supported with objective evidence
• Strong communication skills - able to question effectively and listen in order to gain full understanding of client issues and needs
• Strong results-focussed orientation
• Ability to be flexible, responsive and enthusiastic
• Detailed knowledge of key business and economic issues
• A team player with a collaborative and supportive approach