(Senior) Consultant, Business Transformation and Transactions, Sydney
About the role
Our Business Transformation and Transactions team focuses on our clients’ commercial, operational, financial and capital needs by addressing the full spectrum of challenges faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders. Our Sydney Business Transformation and Transactions team delivers important advice at critical times to an impressive Australian and international client list, which include strategy formulation, performance improvement, due diligence and transaction support.
The Business Transformation and Transactions team also works closely with the practice’s Restructuring and Insolvency team, providing comprehensive solutions in informal restructuring and advisory engagements, along with formal insolvency matters such as voluntary administrations and receiverships, across a breadth of industries and businesses of all sizes, allowing the successful candidate to also gain exposure to select restructuring and turn-around mandates.
Currently, an exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Consultant or Senior Consultant to join our Sydney Business Transformation and Transactions practice. The successful candidate will participate in project teams, working with clients on the execution of various engagements.
What You’ll Do
- Assist with clients’ strategic, commercial, operational, and financial needs by addressing the full spectrum of challenges faced by corporations, boards, private equity sponsors, creditor constituencies and other stakeholders
- Undertake company, industry, and market research and investigation
- Review and analyse financial statements and projections and assess business plans
- Perform financial, ratio and comparable business analysis, and build comprehensive financial models to best practice standard
- Support with conducting due diligence, including analysing commercial and market dynamics as well as performing financial reviews, including providing general deal support in connection with M&A
- Provide project management support to clients, including for post-merger integration engagements
- Formulate a range of solutions for cost optimisation and profit improvement by reviewing financial and operational dynamics
- Develop and assist implementation of precise and measurable plans to improve business performance
- Liaise closely with mid-level and senior client executives, developing trusted relationships and gaining valuable insights by working closely with them to analyse and optimise critical aspects of their businesses
- Attend client sites to carry out duties and collate information will be necessary
- Prepare draft reports, investor memoranda and presentations
How You’ll Grow
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who wants to join a market-leading team, build on their technical knowledge and work across a broad range of industries and mandates. You will receive external, internal and on the job training to develop yourself professionally and personally.
Qualifications & Experience
- Resilience, a strong willingness to learn, positive attitude, and desire to embrace challenges
- 2-4 years professional experience (preferably with Big-4 accounting firm, strategy consulting firm, private equity or a boutique investment house) Driven to deliver high quality client service and deliverables with strong attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written)
- Strong financial, analytical, quantitative and data analysis capability
- Knowledge of fundamental accounting and business/commercial principles
- Proficiency with the Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Proficiency with Microsoft PowerBI preferred
- Ability to work under pressure to achieve best possible outcomes for our clients
- This role may require travel to client and FTI offices
Our Benefits
Apart from the well-structured career path and excellent team environment, our employees enjoy a variety of perks
and benefits. Our benefits include, but are not limited to:
- Flexible working arrangements
- Attractive remuneration, including discretionary bonuses available to all employees
- Financial support to obtain work-related professional qualification, such as CA, CPA or CFA, and other
- Professional membership contributions and generous paid study leave (up to 12 days)
- Monthly Health & Wellbeing program including fitness subsidies
- Annual paid volunteer hours
- Opportunity to join our Reconciliation Action Plan - working group; FTI’s Women’s Initiative Network (FTI WIN); Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging and Corporate Citizenship committees
- 35 hours per year for approved pro bono matters
- FTI Work Perks: our discount program that provides a wide range of corporate offers, savings and wellbeing resources
- Corporate matching for charitable donations
- Special leave - 2 days per year of a cultural or religious holiday that is not treated as a public holiday in Australia
- 18 weeks paid, gender-neutral parental leave with full superannuation contributions throughout paid and unpaid leave
- Employee Assistance Program (“EAP”) – free to all employees and their immediate families
- Corporate discount available for health insurance, including dependent(s)
About FTI Consulting
FTI Consulting is a global business advisory firm dedicated to helping clients with their most significant opportunities and challenges. With more than 8,000 employees located in 31 countries, our broad and diverse bench of award–winning experts advise their clients when they are facing their most significant opportunities and challenges. At FTI Consulting, we embrace, cultivate and maintain a culture of diversity, inclusion & belonging, which are fundamental components to our core values.
FTI Consulting is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange and has been named the #1 Professional Services Firm on Forbes List of America's Best Employers and the best firm to work by Consulting Magazine. For more information, visit www.fticonsulting.com and connect with us on Twitter (@FTIConsulting), Facebook and LinkedIn.
FTI Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, protected veteran status, religion, physical or mental disability, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, or any other basis protected by law, ordinance, or regulation.
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