Manager – Deal Advisory​/Transaction Services; Financial Due Diligence

Job Description

KPMG Lower Gulf Limited

Designation:
Manager – Deal Advisory / Transaction Services (Financial Due Diligence) – Energy and Natural Resources

• Extensive experience leading buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements across a range of transaction sizes and structures.
• Strong understanding of key deal drivers and transaction risks, with the ability to identify and communicate issues that may impact valuation, pricing, deal structure, financing, or post-deal integration.
• Lead the end‑to‑end execution of financial due diligence engagements, including planning, scoping, data request management, analysis, reporting, and client presentations.
• Perform and oversee analysis of quality of earnings, normalized EBITDA, net debt, working capital requirements, cash flow generation, and other key financial metrics.
• Evaluate historical financial performance, business trends, earnings sustainability, and underlying operational drivers.
• Review management forecasts, business plans, and financial models, assessing key assumptions, sensitivities, and risks relevant to the transaction.
• Translate complex financial analyses into clear, concise, and commercially relevant insights for private equity, corporate, infrastructure, and sovereign investors.
• Prepare and review high-quality due diligence reports, ensuring findings are focused on matters most relevant to client investment decisions.
• Identify, prioritize, and communicate critical transaction issues and develop practical recommendations to support client decision-making.
• Coordinate with valuation, tax, strategy, operational, ESG, and other specialist teams to deliver integrated transaction advice.

• Demonstrated experience advising on transactions within the energy, natural resources, and infrastructure sectors, including oil & gas, petrochemicals, mining & metals, power & utilities, renewables, energy transition, and related industrial assets.
• Understanding of sector‑specific value drivers, operating metrics, commercial structures, regulatory frameworks, and financial reporting considerations.
• Experience assessing project‑based businesses, long‑term contracts, commodity price exposure, reserve/resource‑based assets, regulated businesses, and capital‑intensive operating models.
• Ability to evaluate sector‑specific risks and opportunities and articulate their impact on earnings, cash flows, valuation, and transaction structure.
• Knowledge of energy transition trends, decarbonization initiatives, renewable energy markets, and emerging infrastructure investment themes is advantageous.

• Manage multiple concurrent engagements, ensuring delivery within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Lead engagement teams and allocate resources effectively across work streams.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with clients, target management teams, investors, lenders, and other transaction stakeholders.
• Proactively manage client expectations and ensure a high standard of client service throughout the transaction lifecycle.
• Understand transaction objectives and tailor analyses and deliverables to address key client concerns and investment considerations.
• Facilitate effective coordination across internal and external stakeholders to ensure efficient project execution.
• Escalate key risks, issues, and commercial matters to Directors and Partners in a timely manner.
• Monitor project economics, including scope management, budgets, billing, collections, and profitability.
• Ensure compliance with firm risk management, independence, quality control, and engagement documentation requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex financial and operational issues into clear, concise, and commercially relevant messages.
• Lead or co‑lead management meetings, diligence sessions, data request discussions, status calls, and report debriefs with clients, targets, investors, lenders, and other transaction stakeholders.
• Present due diligence findings, key risks, and deal considerations…