Corporate
Finance
Executive

Location: Coventry

Salary: Competitive and dependent on experience

Hours: Maternity Leave Cover/Permanent, Monday to Friday, 36.5 hours per week

At HB&O, we’re a team of passionate experts, specialising in supporting businesses and individuals through every stage of their professional and personal life. Our clients come from all different walks of life, operate in all kinds of different sectors and bring different experiences, passions and motivators to their work, but they all have a common goal: to be successful in their own right. We believe that our team should echo this too.

Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the progressive, growing and hands-on HB&O Corporate Finance team in our Coventry office, as a Corporate Finance Executive. We are recruiting for mat-leave cover initially, but there is scope for this to be a permanent position for the right candidate. 

HB&O Corporate Finance provide complete transactional support to owner-managed and family businesses, whether they are buying, selling, reorganising the business or simply planning for a future exit. We have particular expertise in smaller transactions, typically where the business values are between £0.25m to £5m.

The role will provide the opportunity for the individual to be actively involved in supporting clients and senior members of the team in all aspects of business transactions from a very holistic, client-focused perspective. It would be an ideal move for a candidate looking for a different challenge in this specialist area, and gain new skill sets surrounding full business life-cycle support to clients.

Responsibilities and Duties

The successful candidate will be responsible for providing technical support to the Lead Advisory team, in carrying out approximately 25-30 transactions each year for a wide range of business owners/entrepreneurs. They will be responsible for producing strong analytical data & reports for multiple end users, will the ability to tailor those accordingly.

Routine tasks will include:

• Preparing formal and informal valuations
• Preparing financial forecast models
• Reviewing, preparing and organising financial due diligence documents (sell side)
• Undertaking financial analysis for due diligence purposes (buy side)
• Producing marketing documentation such as Information Memorandums and flyers
• Organising and overseeing expressions of interest during marketing exercises
• Researching and approaching potential buyers/sellers for clients
• Liaising directly with clients, potential clients, professional contacts and referrer contacts through email, calls and face-to-face meetings.
• Ad-hoc internal management accounting and admin, such as raising invoices and creating proposals/project budgets
• Supporting the team with ad-hoc assignments

The Candidate

• Ideally ACA/ACCA qualified, with up to 2 years post-qualification experience and be from an audit, accountancy and/or business advisory background.
• The role would suit an individual with an analytical, problem-solving and forward- thinking mindset, with a wish to progress their current technical skills
• You will have a good working knowledge/experience of how statutory and management accounts are prepared, carrying out analytical reviews and preparing reports within MS Excel, as the successful candidate will be expected to immediately fit into an active department dealing with all aspects of corporate finance transactions
• You will have excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills, as this role will provide a high level of client interaction, at owner/principal and director level, and all projects must be handled with sensitivity and the utmost confidentiality.
• You will be a team player, whilst also being able to work proactively, demonstrate initiative and strong time management skills
• You will have strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including use of formulas, charts, tables and formatting

A good awareness of corporate finance transactions would be a clear advantage in being able to hit the ground running in this very busy team.

• Prior experience in financial forecasting
• Prior knowledge or awareness of corporate finance transactions