Corporate Finance Manager

Job Description:

Role
The Corporate Finance Manager will support Corporate Finance Partner and manage
client engagements across mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and strategic
transactions. The role focuses on advising clients throughout the deal lifecycle—from
strategy and target screening to due diligence, valuation, and post-merger integration—
while managing teams, client relationships, and contributing to business development.

Key Responsibilities
• Manage M&A and transaction advisory engagements across multiple clients and
sectors.
• Act as the primary day-to-day client contact, ensuring high-quality delivery and
client satisfaction.
• Translate client objectives into clear workplans, hypotheses, and deliverables.
• Conduct market assessments, target screening, and strategic fit analysis.
• Develop investment theses, synergy cases, and deal rationales.
• Develop and maintain data for leading PEs, VCs, and family offices in the region
and connect with them.
• Oversee financial modelling, valuation, and scenario analysis (DCF,
comparables, precedent transactions).
• Review and challenge assumptions, forecasts, and management business
plans.
• Support pricing, deal structuring, and negotiation strategies.
• Manage financial due diligence workstream.
• Coordinate with internal specialists and external advisors (legal, tax, technical).
• Identify key value drivers, risks, red flags, and mitigation strategies.

• Prepare investment committee and Board materials and presentations for
clients.
• Manage and mentor team of Assistant Manager, consultants and senior
consultants.
• Review work deliverables for quality, consistency, and insight.
• Support team capability building in M&A methodologies and tools.
• Support business development, proposal preparation, pitch presentations and
client discussions.
• Contribute to thought leadership, market insights and sector point-of-view.
• Build long-term client relationships and support service line growth.
• Willingness to travel, if needed for work and client assignments.

Key Skills & Competencies
• Strong M&A lifecycle knowledge and transaction advisory experience.
• Advanced due diligence, financial modelling and valuation skills.
• Structured problem-solving and strategic thinking.
• Strong client management and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple engagements in parallel.
• Commercial mindset with a consulting delivery approach.

Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business or related field.
• MBA, CFA, CA/ACCA/CPA, or equivalent professional qualification.
• 6–8 years of experience in:
o M&A Advisory
o Big 6 transaction advisory
o Investment banking (with advisory exposure)
• Experience with UAE, cross-border and GCC transactions preferred.

Personal Attributes
• Self-starter, Client-focused with a strong ownership mindset.
• High attention to detail and quality.
• Comfortable engaging with senior client stakeholders.
• Adaptable in fast-paced consulting environments.

• Team player mindset, actively collaborating with consultants across multi-
disciplinary teams, and partner to deliver high-quality client outcomes.