Senior Manager, Finance M&A

Our client is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of their corporate culture. As a critical member of their finance team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation. Growth has led to recruiting for a Senior Manager, M&A Finance. This role will manage financial activities throughout the deal lifecycle, including assisting with diligence and close processes.

Responsibilities of the Senior Manager, Finance M&A is as follows but not limited to:

• Build strong working relationships to drive key finance related M&A and post close integration initiatives. This includes partnering with cross functional teams including corporate development, corporate accounting & reporting, international controllership, corporate and indirect tax, transfer pricing, treasury, financial planning & analysis, revenue recognition, legal, and operations, among others.
• Contribute to finance team functions during the diligence process by partnering with Corporate Development M&A to evaluate the financial merits of potential transactions.
• Identify cross-functional interdependencies and gaps between finance and operational teams that require attention before or after deal close.
• Review definitive agreements ensuring adequacy of representations and indemnities to cover financial and reporting risks identified during diligence.
• Support net working capital analysis and negotiations, including determining target net working capital levels and executing post-close calculations and settlements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and execute transition service agreements as required.
• Support purchase price accounting including the preparation and accounting for purchase consideration and delivery of the opening balance sheet.
• Coordinate with external valuation consultants and internal business teams to assess valuation assumptions for acquired intangibles.
• Prepare post close legal entity valuations and record journal entries to pushdown acquired intangibles and goodwill to legal entities, as required.
• Contribute to the preparation of pro forma financial statements and other assigned projects.
• Act as a point of contact with external auditors with respect to all M&A deliverables to support the timely completion of the annual audit and quarterly reviews of the consolidated financial statements.
• Assist in preparing legal entity valuations for statutory legal entity mergers or liquidations, and in support of annual statutory legal entity goodwill impairment testing.
• Support other finance-related projects as assigned.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in M&A and valuation roles (buy & sell side), ideally with exposure to both public accounting and industry roles in large organizations.
• Accounting designation required (CPA, CA, or US CPA preferred).
• Proven self-starter with the ability to balance multiple tasks of competing priorities in a changing and dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively facilitate or lead cross functional teams.
• Proven capability to build and manage relationships with professional services partners to achieve high-quality, timely and efficient delivery of engagements when required.
• Experience interacting with senior management and executive levels with the ability to assess business risk and escalate to management with appropriate alternatives.
• Strong analytical and decision-making abilities with a high attention to detail.

Additional Information:

The Mason Group is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and accessible recruitment process. We welcome applicants from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all stages of the recruitment process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

This role is for an immediate vacancy, and we are actively hiring.

Technology-assisted screening tools including AI may be used during the recruitment process; however, all applications are reviewed by our Consultants.

If you are already registered with The Mason Group, please contact your Recruiting Consultant directly with reference to job #20549.

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