Growth in Value Alliance (GV Alliance) Partners is a business advisory and market intelligence services firm. Our objectives are to assist organizations to achieve their growth aspirations by providing market intelligence, strategy blueprint, IT solution delivery expertise and business operation improvement capabilities.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Commercial Due Diligence Advisor
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment Type: Contract
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for thoroughly identifying and evaluating the potential for increased value creation, value drivers and risks inherent in the competitive environment.
- You will conduct an in-depth analysis of the new market and obtain insights for validating the business plan of the firm.
Your responsibilities will be to:
- Evaluate the market and competitive position of the firm.
- Identify key market drivers, opportunities, risks, evolving market dynamics and trends
- Critically review and validate the business plan of the firm, identify key downside risks and opportunities for outperformance
- Assess management projections for profitable growth and evaluate the likelihood of achievement
- Evaluate pricing mechanism for different service segments, benchmark pricing, and assess the profitability of each service line
- Identify historical trends in price fluctuations and key drivers
- Assess the size and quality of the firm’s customer base, suggest strategies for deeper market penetration
- Conduct in-depth analysis into customer acquisition costs and referral systems
- Assess the quality of the firm’s client relationship management processes and compare with the leading competitors
- Evaluate the firm’s sales processes and distribution channels, benchmark with industry, suggest strategies for improvement
- Review copies of contracts with distribution partners and conduct interviews with them
- Conduct in-depth interviews with customers and suppliers, identify needs and requirements
- Review copies of contracts with customers and suppliers
- Conduct comprehensive discussions with management and provide a report on key qualitative observations
- Propose competitive business strategies and develop implementation plan .
Job Requirements
The relevant skills-set that we require:
- Strong ability to maintain independence and objectivity
- Excellent practice of upholding professional skepticism
- Excellent application of prudence in verifying the correctness of information provided, evaluating management judgments and biases
- Strong experience in market analysis and competitive intelligence gathering
- Excellent experience in formulating competitive business strategies
- Strong collaboration and relationship management skills
- Strong oral or written communication skills, including presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, excel and reporting skills
- Excellent critical thinking and syntheses skills
The necessary professional qualifications/experience we seek:
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Accounting or any related field
- Minimum of 5 years of consulting experience at any of the Big Four accounting firms or in leading management consulting firms.
- Minimum of 1 year experience in commercial due diligence engagement is preferable
Job Title: Due Diligence Auditor
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Contract
Job Descriptions
- An exciting opportunity to join a due diligence team in Lagos in the business and operational performance assessment of our client’s proposed subsidiary.
- We are seeking a financial due diligence expert to bring their energy, passion and expertise to help with assessing its financial performance in a new industry.
- You will be responsible for thoroughly evaluating the financial statements and operational data, identifying value drivers, cash flows, working capital requirements, key financial risks, potential deal issues, as well as developing strategies to achieve operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
Your responsibilities will be to:
- Analyze financial and operational results of the firm, and identify key trends and issues
- Evaluate the quality and sustainability of earnings and profitability
- Analyze gross and operating margins, and identify key drivers
- Critically assess the firm’s cost structure and accounting information system
- Conduct cashflow analysis and identify seasonality and cyclicality of cashflow components.
- Evaluate quality of assets and assess historical capital expenditure trend
- Identify and evaluate the components of working capital, and the periodic working capital requirement
- Identify key financial and operational risks
- Identify key strengths and weaknesses of the firm against industry benchmark
- Evaluate internal systems and processes, sort for leakages, process issues, cash handling, records, etc,
- Propose new systems that can efficiently and expansively work with high levels of automation
- Conduct comprehensive discussions with management and provide a report on key qualitative observations
- Propose cost efficient strategies and develop operational plan for implementation
Job Requirements
The necessary professional qualifications / experience we seek:
- B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Accounting or any related field
- Minimum of 5 years of audit experience at any of the top accounting firms or in FMCG or both
- Minimum of 1 year experience in financial accounting due diligence engagement is preferable
- Working knowledge of IFRS and FRC reporting
The relevant skills-set that we require:
- Strong ability to maintain independence and objectivity
- Excellent practice of upholding professional skepticism
- Excellent application of prudence in verifying the correctness of information provided, evaluating management judgments and biases
- Strong oral or written communication skills, including presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, excel and reporting skills
- Strong collaboration and relationship management skills
- Excellent analytical, excel and reporting skills
Deadline: 2nd October, 2020.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their updated CV (in Microsoft word), current and expected salary to: contact@gvapartners.com , umoe@gvapartners.com and idriso@gvapartners.com using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
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