Top level Associate, Agreements at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) Nigeria in Lagos

Role summary & Overview

At PwC, our people in agreements concentration on offering tactical guidance and assist to customers in zones which includes mergers and purchases, divestitures, and reorganization. They assist customers navigate sophisticated financial record and maximise value in their business agreements. In transaction solutions at PwC, you will offer tactical guidance and assist to customers in their mergers, purchases, and divestitures. Your contributions will comprise of carrying out due diligence, financial evaluation, and coordinating the transaction process. As a Top level Associate, you will collaborate with top companies across industries, assisting mergers, purchases, divestitures, and capital market financial record. You'll carry out in-depth-dive evaluation that confirm the financial, business-related, business, and strategic assumptions behind high-effect agreements—supplying visual precision and trust to our customers.

Primary duties

• Carry out complete financial due diligence for both purchase and divestiture financial record. Evaluate the quality of income, operating capital practices, cash flows, and key financial assumptions.
• Evaluate large volumes of financial data from customer operational structures and third-party suppliers to uncover key patterns, risks, and avenues. Convert sophisticated data into clear, practical findings.
• Organize prepare thorough due diligence documentation and demonstrations that bring to attention key findings, risks, and value drivers. Supply findings to internal participants and external customers with visual precision and trust.
• Coordinate directly with customers to comprehend their transaction targets, handle queries, and offer strategic strategic guidance. Build long-term trusted connections through regular dispatch and competence.
• Work alongside cross-operational transaction teams which includes tax, lawful and plan advisors and customer participants to guarantee cohesive and comprehensive evaluation across all dimensions of a transaction.
• Carry out in-depth dives into market trends and attractive landscapes to assist transaction strategic reasoning and confirm assumptions underpinning the business case.
• Recognize key financial risks, which includes income focus, margin long-term viability, or contingent financial obligations, and offer strategic guidance for risk reduction.
• Help customers with consolidation organizing, carve-out plans, and effectiveness supervising during post-merger phases.
• Carry out business and asset cost assessments using DCF, market approach and other methods to arrive at the estimated value.
• Organize financial projections and sensitivity evaluation.
• Help in fairness opinions and financial funding appraisals
• Execute audit assist work which includes the evaluate of buying cost distributions, goodwill impairment evaluations and private equity project sample organisation cost assessments.

Qualifications

Bsc in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a associated business discipline At least 4–6 years related experience

Others:

• Expertise in transaction professional guidance, business finance, appraisal and financial forecasting, M&A consultative, Structure or project finance, financial funding banking
• Applicable qualifications which includes ACA or ACCA or CFA. is essential
• Deep knowledge of balance sheet and income statement, accounting principles (IFRS/GAAP), and financial forecasting
• Competence in resources which includes Excel spreadsheet software, PowerPoint, and data visualization software (e.g., Power BI, Tableau)
• Expertise in appraisal evaluation, industry benchmarking, and transaction arranging