Manager - Transaction Services

The role

You will manage buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements from scoping to completion. You will analyze quality of earnings, net working capital, and cash flow to provide findings for clients.

What you will do

• Manage buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements from scoping through to completion.
• Analyse quality of earnings, net working capital, cash flow and other issues that decide a deal.
• Run the engagement team day to day by reviewing work and coaching junior staff.
• Interview target company management and build working relationships with clients, private equity investors, and other advisors.
• Draft and quality-check diligence deliverables.
• Work alongside Unity's data and AI specialists to make analytics standard practice.
• Take part in business development including proposals and pitches.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years' experience in Financial Due Diligence or Transaction Services from a Big 4 or top-tier advisory firm.
• Hands-on experience managing buy-side and sell-side FDD assignments from start to finish.
• Strong technical grounding in accounting and the deal issues that matter most: quality of earnings, working capital, and cash flow.
• A track record of being an excellent team player in multidisciplinary engagements.
• Clear and confident communication (both written and verbal) with clients and senior stakeholders.
• Curiosity and genuine interest in how technology and AI evolve financial due diligence practice.
• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).

Nice to have

• Experience with Private Equity clients or PE-backed portfolio companies.
• Exposure to cross-border or international transactions.
• Experience with data and analytics tools such as Power BI, Alteryx, or Databricks.
• Sector experience in areas like TMT, Consumer, Healthcare, Business Services and Industrials.

About the company

Unity Advisory is a modern advisory business built for today's CFO, with connected solutions across finance, deals and tax. Founded by senior leaders from the world's top advisory firms and backed by Warburg Pincus, they provide integrated finance, commercial, tax and deals support.