Assistant Manager / Manager, Transaction Management Office (TMO), EFT, M&A

You will be part of a TMO team and work on high-profile transactions, including IPOs, Significant Transactions, demergers, reverse takeovers, bond issues, fundraisings, and public, private and private equity M&A transactions across a range of industries. You will support clients across the deal life cycle, including supporting the set-up and mobilisation, planning, preparation and execution of deals all the way through to listing or signing and then completion.

On a day-to-day basis, at the Assistant Manager or Manager level, you will work as part of a TMO team to provide central and workstream dedicated transaction management supporting clients through the delivery of transaction programmes, manage key processes, prepare high-quality materials, co-ordinate stakeholders, maintain plans, actions, issues, dependencies. You will interact regularly with key client stakeholders, investment banks, legal counsel, reporting accountants and other specialist teams from across Deloitte. You will focus on providing day-to-day guidance and resourcing support to support clients in managing all deal workstreams, stakeholders, advisors in order to ensure successful and effective transaction preparation and execution, reduce risk and safeguard value.

Responsibilities:
Responsibilities will vary by transaction, but typically include:

• Be a core part of TMO engagements and teams as the day-to-day Assistant Manager / Manager, delivering excellent service to clients, contributing to a high-performing team and learning and developing best practices;
• Bring capital markets / M&A transaction expertise and insight to the overall transaction preparation and execution process;
• Support company transaction leads in establishing and setting up the overall transaction programme and workstream structure;
• Work with company transaction leads, investment banks, legal counsel and other advisors to support the development of the overall transaction timetable, roadmap and plan, then work closely with workstream leads to support the development and delivery of these workstream plans
• Support the design and development of programme governance structure, forums, processes and facilitate decision making;
• Support stakeholder management across all transaction stakeholders (e.g. company-side teams and advisors, including banks, lawyers and Deloitte specialists);
• Support stakeholders in respect of maintaining overall transaction and workstream status, action tracking, risks, issues and dependencies;
• Support the input into and support the drafting of key transaction documents (e.g. Prospectus, Circular, Investment Memorandum, Management Presentations etc);
• Support the co-ordination of company-side diligence, data room, information request and verification activities;
• Support the preparation for and help co-ordinate transaction steering committees, working group and all-hand meetings;
• Support the preparation of presentations, Board and steering committee papers and materials, decision-making packs for both internal and external audiences, in order to support transaction preparation and execution;
• Contribute by undertaking market research, prepare materials and provide active contribution in business development opportunities with clients and Deloitte's network;
• Contribute to the development of the TMO business and team by supporting initiatives, bringing ideas, and drive forward actions agreed;
• Work effectively in a high-performing and diverse team culture, where people are recognised for their contribution;
• Support Deloitte engagement management, support Deloitte team budget and cost tracking and reporting.

Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory Assistant Manager / Manager, Transaction Management Office ("TMO"), EFT, M&A

Join the UK's leading M&A services business. The strength and depth of the Deloitte offering across the M&A spectrum from Lead Advisory through Transaction Services to Post-merger Integration is unrivalled.

You will join the market leading Transaction Management Office ("TMO") team and will work with clients at the center of complex Equity Capital Markets ("ECM") and M&A transactions within a high performing team and client service focused environment.

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This is your opportunity to join Deloitte's market leading Transaction Management Office ("TMO") team that sits within Deloitte's M&A practice.

Our Transaction Management Office team is a high-performing team of ECM and M&A professionals who have deep programme management and transaction experience and have successfully advised on some of the largest cross-border deals of recent years. You will have the opportunity to work across a deep range of transactions including IPOs, Significant Transactions, demergers, reverse takeovers, bond issues, fundraisings, and public, private and private equity M&A transactions across a range of industries.

Our TMO team partners with clients to support them in the set-up and mobilisation, planning, preparation and execution of deals all the way through to listing or signing and then completion. We typically deploy experienced transaction professionals to support the central deal / programme team (e.g. M&A, Corporate Development, Finance, Strategy, Legal Teams) and/or to support specific workstreams on the deal programme. The team focuses on providing critical advice, day-to-day guidance and resourcing to support teams in managing all deal workstreams, stakeholders, investment banks, legal counsel and other advisors in order to ensure successful and effective transaction preparation and execution, reduce risk and safeguard value.

Typically, we operate alongside colleagues providing our clients with a multi-disciplinary and end-to-end transaction assist service which accesses Deloitte's vast range of specialist expertise including financial, tax, operational, technology, people, finance, legal, regulatory, sale and purchase agreement preparation and negotiation, real estate, treasury, pensions, modelling, separations and integrations. We regularly work on cross-service line and international assignments, enabling our people to build wide networks across both the UK and International firm.

• Strong programme management skillset with a track record of delivering projects in a complex, high pressure and fast-paced client-facing environment;
• Keen interest in ECM and M&A transactions, with the motivation to build deep technical and practical transaction execution expertise;

• Experience of capital markets and/or M&A transactions, ideally gained in investment banking, corporate advisory, transaction services, legal, investor relations, corporate development, audit or a listed-company environment;

• · Awareness of the key stages of deal execution, including preparation, diligence, documentation, governance, announcement, signing, completion and post-completion handover;
• · Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex transaction issues for senior audiences;
• · Strong track record of working confidently with internal and external stakeholders, ideally in transactions, capital markets, advisory or listed-company environments;
• · Awareness of listing rules, disclosure requirements and market practice for key global exchanges, particularly in London, EMEA and US;
• · Awareness of key financial, accounting and valuation concepts in the context of capital markets and M&A transactions;
• · Experience of setting up, organising, managing and/or reviewing ECM and/or M&A VDRs and have a strong sense of process, controls and governance to manage large and complex processes, risks and interdependencies
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