Data Analytics Director - Financial Due Diligence

As a Data Analytics 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 – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. Our Financial Due Diligence solution is comprised of several integrated capabilities that support our clients' needs throughout the transaction lifecycle.

From day one, you’ll be empowered to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently. 

 

Your day-to-day may include:

• Supervise and oversee all aspects of engagements throughout the transaction process, and coordinate across multiple service lines, work streams, and teams
• Serve as the day-to-day point person on engagements, lead meetings and calls with clients and target management
• Train the team on the utilization of advanced business intelligence tools including complex calculations, table calculations, mapping, data blending and optimization of data extracts
• Manage client expectations concerning project deliverables and deadlines and lead change efforts effectively
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships and cross-sell services
• Team with partners on proposals and business development calls
• Recruit, manage, mentor, and train managers, senior associates, and associates
• Assess performance of managers, senior associates and associates for engagement and year-end reviews
• Lead practice development efforts in R&D related to new technologies, operational and process changes, and other opportunities to scale and rationalize our team
• Lead and support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities at clients
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting required
• Minimum 8 -10 years of related work experience in a consulting practice servicing cross-industry clients at a national level, leveraging skills in accounting/finance, due diligence, M&A, and advanced analytical methods required
  • 2+ years hands-on accounting in a professional services environment in a field such as audit or transaction advisory services required
  • 6+ years client facing analytics experience focused on insights, analyses, and data interpretation within M&A 
• CPA certification and/or relevant professional certification required 
• Expert knowledge of Tableau and/or Power BI, SQL and Alteryx, Microsoft Excel, and Power Query expected
• Expert knowledge of how source data represents and relates to enterprise financial statements, along with business acumen around the commercial substance of trends observed in the data are required
• Expert level experience with common analytic approaches, such as Customer Retention, Price Volume, Unit Economics, Trend Analysis, and Profitability analysis required
• Expert knowledge of data architecture, structuring, governance, and digital strategy
• Executive communication and presentation skills, orally and written, as well as interpersonal/rapport-building skills
• Experience developing client proposals, engagement work plans, and budgets
• Experience in and desire to engage in business development to grow the practice
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice
• Strong leadership, business development, recruitment, training, and mentoring skills
• Can travel as needed for client meetings and business development, but typically not more than 10%

 

The base salary range for this position in the firm's Chicago, IL office is between $187,500 and $312,500.

The base salary range for this position in the firm's New York, NY office is between $202,500 and $337,500.

 

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