Senior Associate-Transaction Advisory Services

Job Description

At EisnerAmper, we look for individuals who welcome new ideas, encourage innovation, and are eager to make an impact. Whether you’re starting out in your career or taking your next step as a seasoned professional, the EisnerAmper experience is one-of-a-kind. You can design a career you’ll love from top to bottom – we give you the tools you need to succeed and the autonomy to reach your goals.

The Transaction Advisory Services practice is seeking Senior Associates to join a collaborative, growing transactions team. You will work as an individual contributor as well as part of a team to facilitate and support client buy-side and sell-side Financial Due Diligence and Quality of Earnings (QoE) engagements.

What it Means to Work for EisnerAmper:

• You will get to be part of one of the largest and fastest growing accounting and advisory firms in the industry

• You will have the flexibility to manage your days in support of our commitment to work/life balance

• You will join a culture that has received multiple top “Places to Work” awards

  • We believe that great work is accomplished when cultures, ideas and experiences come together to create new solutions

  • We understand that embracing our differences is what unites us as a team and strengthens our foundation

  • Showing up authentically is how we, both as professionals and a Firm, find inspiration to do our best work

Key Responsibilities:

• Compile, analyze and prepare financial models and DataBooks with financial and operational information sourced from multiple comprehensive and complex data sources

• Perform financial analysis and data analytics on comprehensive financial and accounting data sets that serve as the foundation for transaction deliverables to clients

• Assist with buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence and financial analysis helping to identify key risks and potential deal breakers, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the target /client against industry benchmarks, and aid in the evaluation of the potential transaction in the context of their clients’ investment / divestiture strategy.

• Analyze detailed financial, business and operational information including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and key operational and performance metrics and data.

• Convert the data into meaningful information that is used to drive discussions and analysis with target /client management and drive observations and conclusions.

• Assess the quality of the target’s reported revenues, margins, earnings, net assets, net working capital and cash flows.

• Assist in the preparation of deal-oriented financial models, databooks, and key findings reports and presentations for clients that highlight the key financial, commercial and business findings.

• Assist the team in further articulating how such findings should be incorporated into the client’s valuation and sale, purchase agreement and provide other negotiating points

• Participate in and lead certain meetings and conference calls with client and target company management and serve as a secondary point of contact for client personnel with respect to day-to-day execution matters.

• Work closely with clients, investment banks, PE investors, attorneys and other key stakeholders. Participate in client meetings to gather data and valuable information to perform financial analysis work

• Participate in building and maintaining client relationships and other business development opportunities.

• May be required to occasionally work extended hours or travel/to work from different firm offices and/or client locations

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Masters degree in Accounting and/or Business

• CPA is preferred or CPA eligible

• 3+ years of experience in audit and or financial due diligence at a major accounting firm

Preferred/Desired Qualifications:

• 1+ years of experience of financial due diligence

• Strong technical knowledge of US GAAP (revenue recognition, inventory, accrual-based accounting)

• High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint

• Knowledge in Power BI and/or similar financial modeling analytical tools

• Excellent interpersonal and team building skills

• Proficient written and oral communication skills

• Strong project management skills and ability to multi-task on several simultaneous transactions

• Strong organizational skills

• Flexibility to work as both a team member and as an individual contributor

• Ability to thrive and be effective in fast-paced settings

About our Transaction Advisory Services Team:

The TAS Practice assists financial and strategic investors and lenders in connection with evaluating complex acquisition and divestiture transactions. Our professionals have decades of experience advising clients in every aspect of the transaction, from pre-LOI stage through closing. We are looking for professionals in selected geographic and functional markets to add to the continued growth and expansion of our TAS practice.

Our “startup mentality,” backed by the institutional knowledge and established reputation of the firm, enables us to be flexible and always evaluate what can take our team and clients to the next level. Whether it’s a new internal process, digital platform, or service offering, we believe that innovative ideas come from all levels and every employee should have the opportunity to make an impact on the business, our clients, and their careers. 

About EisnerAmper:

EisnerAmper is one of the largest accounting, tax, and business advisory firms, with approximately 450 partners and 4,500 employees across the world. We combine responsiveness with a long-range perspective; to help clients meet the pressing issues they face today and position them for success tomorrow.

Our clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions, PE firms, start-ups, global public firms, and middle-market companies, as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. We are also engaged by the attorneys, financial professionals, bankers, and investors who serve these clients.

EisnerAmper is proud to be a merit-based employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of veteran or disability status or any protected characteristics under federal, state, or local law.

Should you need any accommodations to complete this application please email: [email protected]

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