EYP - TCF - Financial Due Diligence - Senior Manager

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Assistant Director (Senior Manager) – Financial Due Diligence (FDD), GDS

Role Purpose

Lead and manage Financial Due Diligence and Vendor Due Diligence engagements delivered by GDS, ensuring high-quality execution, strong project management, coaching of teams, and seamless collaboration with onshore engagement leaders. Responsible for driving technical excellence, quality reviews, stakeholder management, and delivery of transaction-related analyses and reports.

Key Responsibilities

Engagement Delivery

• Lead buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements.
• Manage preparation and review of databooks, quality of earnings analyses, working capital assessments, cash flow analyses, net debt schedules and other transaction deliverables.
• Review engagement outputs to ensure conclusions are well supported by underlying analysis.
• Oversee report drafting support and consistency reviews between reports and databooks.

Team Leadership

• Supervise, coach and develop Managers, Seniors and Analysts.
• Allocate work across engagement teams and monitor delivery against deadlines.
• Provide guidance on analytical focus areas, issue resolution and presentation standards.

Quality & Risk Management

• Review the structure, completeness and relevance of IRLs and databooks.
• Ensure engagement deliverables comply with EY methodologies, quality standards and confidentiality requirements.
• Drive consistency checks, review comment resolution and quality assurance processes.

Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary GDS contact for engagement teams across MENA and other member firms.
• Participate in management discussions and internal review meetings.
• Support engagement managers and partners in resolving key diligence issues and delivering actionable insights.

Innovation & Process Improvement

• Promote use of transaction diligence tools such as RoboScope, Databook Automation (DBA), DDA and Copilot where applicable.
• Drive automation, standardization and process enhancements across FDD engagements.

Experience & Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of experience in Financial Due Diligence, Transaction Services, Deals Advisory, Audit or Corporate Finance.
• Strong experience in buy-side and sell-side due diligence.
• Deep understanding of Quality of Earnings, Working Capital, Net Debt, Cash Flow analysis and transaction reporting.
• Experience managing multiple client-facing engagements and cross-border teams.
• CA / ACCA / CPA / ACA / MBA or equivalent qualification preferred.

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