Corporate Finance Executive at BDO South Africa

Description

The key purpose of this role is to assist the Corporate Finance team in delivering quality Corporate Finance services and to enable fee base growth. The Corporate Finance Executive will be responsible for the following key activities to achieve the main objectives:

• Planning: Ensure that the Corporate Finance planner is up to date for personal planning at all times;
• Proposals: Contribute to competitive bid proposals;
• Filing: Ensure all job files are neatly closed off with the final master workbook and report separately filed and identifiable;
• Self-development: Maintain necessary SAICA CPD (or other professional body CPD);
• Training: Attend all mandatory BDO training as required;
• Execution: Provide high quality deliverables (and supporting workbooks) within agreed timelines for all engagements (valuations, due diligence, modelling etc.);
• Team Communication: Ensure appropriate project communications are maintained (as agreed per project). Ensure spare capacity is communicated as early as possible;
• Client and target relationship management: Ensure all communication is professional and on-brand and contribute to client presentations as required; and
• Feedback: Ensure feedback requests are sent and ratings timeously agreed for all projects delivered upon. Ensure feedback requests received are timeously responded to.

Requirements
Qualifications:   

• CA (SA) qualification

Additional relevant certification/qualification is desirable
Experience:   

• Minimum 3 years audit articles
• Post-audit articles experience
• Excellent computer literacy, including MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint;     Analysis of financial statements and evaluation of a company's operating data, business performance and determination of proper levels of "working capital" and "capital structure" ratios;     
• A good understanding of IFRS and the ability to identify key IFRS issues within a business; and understanding of the basic principles of mergers and acquisitions.    

Competencies:   

• Commercial orientation;     
• Excellent communication / interpersonal skills;     
• Excellent report writing skills;     
• Knowledge and innovation;     
• Influencing skills / leadership potential;     
• Entrepreneurial flair;     
• Problem solving potential and decision making skills;     
• Organisation skills;     
• Energy and drive;     
• A strong command of English (both oral and written);     
• Excellent planning and organising abilities;     
• Ability to work under pressure and achieve internal reporting deadlines;     
• Have a strong commitment to excellence and personal and professional growth;     
• Have demonstrated outstanding academic achievement and an aptitude for analytics;     
• Ability to carrying out basic financial modelling, then developing and presenting results;     
• Contribute to competitive bid proposals and formal presentations; and     
• Ability to prepare due diligence reports using templates and executive summaries.