Senior Manager - Financial Due Diligence

The role

You will lead complex buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements and post-deal value creation programmes. You will manage end-to-end project delivery, partner with Private Equity and corporate clients, and develop talent within the Deals team.

What you will do

• Lead complex buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements across a variety of sectors.
• Oversee end-to-end project delivery, from initial scoping to reporting, stakeholder presentations, and recommendations.
• Partner with Private Equity and corporate clients to assess deal drivers, KPIs, underlying earnings, working capital, and cash flows.
• Identify and quantify risks, synergies, and improvement opportunities during both diligence and post-deal phases.
• Interview target company management and build working relationships with clients, private equity investors, and other advisors on the deal.
• Support and develop value capture plans, including margin enhancement, pricing strategies, working capital optimisation, and operational efficiency.
• Draft and quality-check diligence deliverables.
• Collaborate with internal data and AI specialists to integrate advanced analytics and automation into our FDD delivery model.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with investors, management teams, and third-party advisors.
• Contribute to business development activities, proposals, and thought leadership.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 6+ years of experience in Financial Due Diligence or Transaction Services from a Big 4 or top-tier consultancy environment.
• Proven ability to lead multiple transaction engagements simultaneously across buy-side and sell-side mandates.
• A track record of owning engagements end-to-end, from scoping through to final findings.
• Strong analytical and financial skills, with a deep understanding of accounting principles and commercial drivers.
• Track record in delivering actionable insights and value creation strategies post-deal.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication, including senior stakeholder engagement and reporting.
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the agility to thrive in a non-hierarchical, fast-growth environment.

Nice to have

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
• Experience in Private Equity environments or PE-backed portfolio companies.
• Exposure to international transactions and cross-border coordination.
• Familiarity with AI, data-driven diligence tools, or operational analytics platforms such as Power BI, Alteryx, or Databricks.
• Sector experience in areas like TMT, Consumer, Healthcare, Business Services and Industrials.

Benefits

• A truly hybrid and flexible working model.
• The opportunity to shape an AI-driven FDD and value capture practice from the ground up.
• Direct exposure to senior clients, dealmakers, and investors from day one.
• A flat, collaborative team where ideas move quickly and impact is real.

About the company

Unity Advisory is a modern advisory business built for today's CFO, with connected solutions across finance, deals and tax. Seasoned experts lead every engagement in an operating model powered by AI and free from audit conflict.