Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Rank: Associate

Job description

The Transaction Services team is part of Deal Advisory team of KPMG Thailand. Along with Corporate Finance, M&A, Restructuring and Deal Strategy teams, the group brings a multi-faceted approach to companies seeking mergers and acquisitions or divestment of operations. The TS team focuses on due diligence assistance to support clients making acquisitions, disposals, public bids/mergers, joint ventures, buy-outs, market entry, financing and other transactions and can help clients maximize their transaction opportunities throughout the deal and throughout the economic cycle.

Roles and responsibilities

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to lead/manage/participate in buy-side and sell-side transaction advisory engagements, providing financial due diligence, divestiture support and post deal assistance to major corporate, MNC and private equity clients
• Analyse Target company data to identify historical financial trends, quality of earnings and working capital considerations and potential liabilities and risks which may impact valuation of the target company
• Create and design tailored transaction advisory reports specific to key issues such as normalized earnings, valuation model input assumptions, achievability of management's budget, and indebtedness considerations
• Help our clients to understand the key drivers of the target company's business, key risks and potential value upside, and help them to make an informed investment decision
• Understand the key drivers of a business's success or failure, including products, markets, channels, and cost base
• Execute projects including performing fieldwork, interfacing with senior executives of clients and target companies, drafting high quality reports to clients etc.
• Coordinate with clients, targets and other advisors on due diligence activities including the review of transaction documentation
• Perform client and industry research and prepare materials to support our pitches and proposals to clients
• Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of risk management practices and processes

Qualifications and Skills

• Experience of working in Transaction Services on Financial Due Diligence and/or Audit & Assurance with global accounting firms

• 1-3 years required for Junior - Senior Associate
• 4-6 years required for Assistant Manager
• 6 years up required for Manager

• Solid understanding of M&A processes
• Proficiency in spoken and written English and Thai
• Strong communication and presentation capability
• Ability to thrive in an international environment
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and project management skills
• Proven ability to deliver the full cycle of project management and manage engagement teams and client deliverables, applying your professional and technical skills on a wide variety of transactions