Manager, Strategic Services

Manager, Strategic Services role at Deloitte focusing on financial management of a sustainability fund, investment activities, strategic planning, business growth initiatives, market analysis, financial modeling, and client interaction. Requires experience in business valuations, due diligence, M&A, financial modeling, and using financial databases.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead strategic financial management of the Firm's Sustainability fund including overseeing investment activities, and other analyses and reporting of financials to Senior Management.
  2. Track investment performance against strategy and evaluating return on investment.
  3. Understand actual performance against forecast.
  4. Look for efficiencies and synergies in the financial management process.
  5. Help execute and oversee various special projects involving strategy development, analysis and planning for achieving business growth, performing market entry and/or expansion, and developing other strategic initiatives related to clients, services, industry programs, talent, and international collaboration.

Skills

Required

  • Strategic financial management
  • Investment analysis
  • Financial reporting
  • Performance tracking
  • Return on investment evaluation
  • Business growth strategy
  • Market entry strategy
  • Portfolio analysis
  • Business modeling
  • Financial modeling
  • Market segmentation
  • Market sizing
  • Competitive landscape analysis
  • Operational analysis
  • Executive presentation development
  • Workshop facilitation
  • Staff coaching and development
  • Business valuations
  • Due diligence
  • Mergers and acquisitions analysis
  • Financial modeling (Excel, VBA)
  • Private company valuation
  • Tax planning
  • Compliance
  • Financial database research (Bloomberg, IBISWorld, Thomson Research, Capital IQ)
  • Evaluation process development
  • Client relationship management

Nice to have

  • Sustainability fund management
  • Cross-functional team leadership
  • Geographically distributed resource management
  • Off-shore contingent management

What the JD emphasized

  • Master’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Management, Finance, Accounting or related field
  • three (3) years of experience as a Manager, Strategic Services or related occupation gaining company valuations and financial modeling experience
  • performing business valuations and due diligence for mergers and acquisitions, common stock, tax purposes, and management planning purposes
  • reviewing and supporting valuations performed by appraisers
  • performing financial modeling to optimize the flexibility of business modeling projections, and providing independent opinion on the reliability of models
  • evaluating and verifying financial models by evaluating the quality of model construction, formulas, and logical structure, and correcting errors
  • utilizing Excel and VBA to formulate complex financial models and performing private company valuation for tax planning and compliance purposes
  • performing research and valuations using Bloomberg, IBISWorld, Thomson Research, and Capital IQ databases to collect information on publicly traded companies, market parameters and comparable transactions
  • building and implementing an evaluation process to yield higher efficiency in evaluation projects
  • interfacing with client financial managers and executives, accounting professionals, and external counsel throughout the valuation process