Deal Advisory Manager

Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance, and tax services to clients. We create shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise. To meet our commitment to growth and development, we are looking for a Manager to join our National Deal Advisory practice. Our services include buy-side and sell-side due diligence, working capital assistance, merger integration, and optimization, divestitures, and carve outs. Our team advised on ~600 deals with an aggregate transaction value exceeding $19B in 2024.

Ideal candidates will have at least two years of demonstrated experience performing work across an array of M&A engagements in a large regional/national public accounting firm or related professional services consulting environment.

• Work closely with partners and directors to manage activities of buy-side and sell-side financial and tax due diligence engagements across a wide array of industries.
• Perform quality of earnings, quality of assets, and working capital analyses by interviewing management, and analyzing & synthesizing data to identify historical and future financial and operational trends that provide insights in the deal negotiation process.
• Develop relationships with client's senior-leadership teams and target company executives.
• Supervise junior staff and provide performance review feedback.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting (preferred), Finance or related business discipline.
• Active CPA license or in-progress required.
• 5+ years of professional services experience, with 2+ years of demonstrated financial due diligence experience.
• Strong accounting, data analysis/mining, and critical thinking skills.
• Effective communication skills (both oral and written).
• Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and excellent interpersonal/relationship building skills.
• Strong project management skills, ability to run multiple engagements at once.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Willingness to travel as needed (expected