VP- Digital Value Creation-TAS India

Job Description:

TAS is seeking talented professionals to join our fast-growing Digital Value Creation group (DVC) at the Vice President level. DVC provides our clients value-creating insights from vast market, operational, and financial data. DVC professionals work closely with HL due diligence, valuation and investment banking teams alongside clients' deal and operating teams. As a professional in the group, you will be teamed with highly talented and dedicated M&A professionals in various industry groups including Industrials, Consumer, Technology, Business Services and Financial Services. This opportunity provides you broad exposure to different transactional issues affecting businesses in an M&A environment.

This is a unique opportunity for someone with proficiency in data analytics along with experience in applying data analytics techniques to financial and operational analyses that is fundamental to an M&A process. DVC provides you ample exposure to the M&A and corporate finance industry and capital markets. You will further develop and extend your data analytics knowledge, and hone your interpersonal skills as you deliver valuable insights that derive transaction and strategic decision making for internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements and data-focused operational reporting engagements
• Lead engagements or substantial workstreams within an engagement, taking ownership of the execution, quality and timeliness of deliverable to clients
• Day-to-day project management, ensuring progress in line with project plan and effective resource management; resolving bottlenecks and complex questions; identifying risks and delays; reporting and escalating issues as required; tracking budgets; etc.
• Communicate directly and effectively with senior business executives and internal stakeholders, providing project updates, discussing questions and bottlenecks, and sharing points of view and recommendations as defined within project scope
• Gather, evaluate, sanitize, and organize applicable meta data
• Prepare data workflows to clean and combine data from multiple sources
• Prepare data visualizations and dashboards to deliver key insights
• Generate insights on the drivers of business growth, profitability, and liquidity, and story-board key findings into a structured and comprehensible report
• Identify key business risks and opportunities impacting business valuation
• Be willing to learn and train peers on data analysis and visualization tools
• Continuously develop industry knowledge and qualifications
• Be able to work on and lead multiple assignments simultaneously
• Support and actively participate in business development efforts
• Review the work of junior team members, ensuring desired quality and insights, and providing timely feedback for their continuous learning
• Manage a team of 2-3 Analysts and/or Associates, being responsible for their learning and professional development

Basic (must-have) Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in technology / computer science / accounting / finance or quantitative finance, or similar (with concentration in data analytics or another quantitative field)
• Experience in financial analytics based on sound understanding of financial statements like Profit & Loss and Balance sheet and ability to analyze financial and operating performance of a company
• Hands-on experience in working on one of the data wrangling / ETL tool i.e. Alteryx, Dataiku etc.
• Sound knowledge of and experience in data visualization tools, either Tableau or Power BI
• Strong command of advanced Microsoft Excel functions, PowerPivot, Power Query, etc.
• Experience working in a global organization across different time zones, managing both internal and external stakeholders
• Team management experience, covering role expectations, learning and development, and performance management
• Exceptional work ethic, high motivation, and a demonstrated ability and desire to work cooperatively with team members and client professionals
• Strong analytical abilities
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• A demonstrated ability to work cooperatively and be a team player

Preferred (good-to-have) Qualifications:

• Post graduate degree or diploma, or certification in any of the above fields of study or business administration (for instance MBA, CFA, CQF etc.)
• Experience in M&A and financial consulting areas such as Financial due diligence, Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis will be a strong advantage
• Strong command of at least one programming language Python, R, VBA
• Prior work experience in relational database management systems (including experience in SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar)

Work Experience:

• 7 (seven) to 10 (ten) years of professional experience

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.