Financial Due Diligence Director

Job Summary

As a Financial Due Diligence Director, you’ll focus on middle‑market transactions, serving dynamic organizations with experienced professionals who bring a full range of advisory services to validate, optimize and create value for the Transaction Advisory Practice. Our Financial Due Diligence solution is comprised of several integrated capabilities that support our clients’ needs throughout the transaction lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead buy‑side and sell‑side transaction engagements for corporate clients, private equity groups and commercial lenders.
• Manage engagements throughout the transaction lifecycle and coordinate other Grant Thornton capabilities by leveraging the expertise of other service lines, cross‑functional teams, and international colleagues as needed.
• Serve as the day‑to‑day point person on engagements; lead meetings and calls with clients and target management.
• Plan, execute, direct and complete financial due diligence for financial and strategic buyers across a variety of industries.
• Examine and analyze client data to identify key trends, quality of earnings adjustments and net working capital impacts.
• Draft reports to socialize findings around quality of earnings, net working capital and business performance, including insights around key financial and business issues in a transaction.
• Manage client expectations concerning timing, progress, deliverables, deadlines, and lead change efforts effectively.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships.
• Manage business development activities such as proposals, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and other thought leadership material.
• Work closely with engagement teams and partners to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues.
• Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow‑on work.
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization).
• Manage, develop, train, coach and mentor staff on projects and assess performance for engagement and year‑end reviews.
• Lead and support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities at clients.
• Motivate others to perform at maximum efficiency without sacrificing quality of the services delivered.
• Interview campus and / or experienced candidates.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Salary

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About Us

At Grant Thornton, we believe in making business more personal and building trust into every result – for our clients and you. We offer a career path with more opportunity, more flexibility and more support, helping you exceed expectations and advance your professional growth.

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Next Steps

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