Corporate Finance Sector Analyst and Operations - Consumer (Manager)
Grant Thornton
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Play a key role in the corporate finance sector team, providing direction and drive. Specific responsibilities include providing support and high-quality analysis for pitches, proposals, and the generation of new work, identifying and acting on commercial opportunities, overseeing thought leadership, maintaining sector knowledge management and raising the profile of the team both internally and externally. You will help the team win new business through value-added research and sector insight, with a particular focus on identifying strategic buyers and acquisition targets for clients.
- Be part of a sector analyst team of six (with your colleagues covering healthcare, business support services, industrials, and TMT) and reporting into the head sector analyst. You will also be working closely with your team of consumer sector focused corporate financiers. Key to this role is the ability to work closely with your sector team and pivotally, with the Partner who heads up the sector. To be effective in this role you will need to influence both Partners and Directors as well as your peers.
- Develop a strong knowledge of the consumer sector, be supported in client-facing situations, and also have an understanding of the importance of knowledge management, business development, marketing and events. You will need to be able to pull all these strands together for the sector team in collaboration with your marketing and business development colleagues.
- Work with the sector head to set the strategy for the sector. As such we will be looking for strong communication and organisational skills and an ability to get the job done. This is an opportunity to help drive the profile and strategy of the sector team, thus directly contributing to the growth and success of the team.
- Educated to degree level or equivalent work experience
- Experience gained within a corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions or similar environment
- Good business analysis experience
- Excellent commercial awareness and ability to be involved in client-facing activities
- Have a keen interest in the consumer sector
- Have tenacity, resilience and a capability to drive projects through to completion
- Strong intrapersonal skills
- Existing knowledge and experience of research tools (Bureau Van Dijk, Mergermarket, CapIQ,)