Industry
Corporate Development Manager
Industry
Corporate Development Manager
Our client is a large, well known North West based real estate Group with interests in commercial development, regeneration as well as energy.
The rapid change in the financing landscape is giving rise to a wide range of attractive M&A opportunities for a large well-funded Real Estate Group with a robust balance sheet. This has resulted in a requirement for a Corporate Development Manager to join the Corporate Development team.
This exciting and highly varied role will include the following responsibilities:
- Identify, evaluate and execute M&A transactions and other investment opportunities.
- Lead on projects including managing the timeline, co-ordinating workstreams (legal, financial, property etc) and overseeing transaction due diligence and liaising with third parties as appropriate (banks, external legal teams etc).
- Manage relationships with external parties including lenders, investors, and financial advisors.
- Negotiation of transaction documentation (loan documents in respect of refinance projects and SPA in relation to other M&A).
- Analyse information and create a concise summary regarding the financial direction of a business including valuation and returns.
- Create and maintain financial models and budgets to determine capital allocation and support corporate development initiatives.
- Provide valuation recommendations based on financial returns analysis (e.g. DCF, IRR, ROIC).
The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant (ACA / ACCA / ACMA) with post qualified M&A or financial advisory experience in the Real Estate and/or Infrastructure sector. You will have excellent project management skills and the ability to multi-task and deliver results. Strong excel skills including the preparation and interrogation of financial models is a key requirement, together with excellent relationship building skills with key stakeholders. This is a rare opportunity to join a high quality North West Corporate Development team.