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Senior Associate - M&A Data Analytics - Corporate Finance

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Chicago, IL, USA
80K-135K Annually
Senior level
In-Office
Chicago, IL, USA
80K-135K Annually
Senior level
Perform financial due diligence data analytics for middle-market M&A: obtain, validate, normalize, analyze transaction data (revenue, costs, inventory), produce dashboards and visualizations, identify trends/outliers, and communicate insights to deal teams and clients.
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As a Data Analytics Senior Associate, you’ll focus on middle-market transactions, serving dynamic organizations with experienced professionals who bring a full range of advisory services to validate, optimize and create value for the Transaction Advisory Practice – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel. Our Financial Due Diligence solution is comprised of several integrated capabilities that support our clients' needs throughout the transaction lifecycle.
This role entails obtaining, validating, normalizing and analyzing deal data (e.g., revenue, cost, unit economics, inventory, etc.). As a key member of the deal team, you’ll use your expert knowledge of data manipulation and visualization to identify and articulate insights that impact client deal success.

Your day-to-day may include:
 

  • Extensive exposure to granular accounting data, including reconciliations between financials and detailed data
  • Collaborate with client teams, adjacent engagement teams, and external advisors to identify, collect, validate, and analyze data from various business cycles (revenue, procurement, supply chain, inventory, etc.)
  • Consolidate and synthesize deal data into trend analysis, insights, and outliers
  • Provide observations into behavior, trends, financials and business operations through data analysis and translate into illustrative visualizations
  • Develop dashboards to clearly articulate the insights reflected
  • Utilize advanced business intelligence tools including complex calculations, table calculations, mapping, data blending and optimization of data extracts
  • Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills, qualifications, and abilities:
 

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting and strong foundational knowledge of accounting processes, systems, reconciliation, and reporting
  • Minimum 2 years of related work experience analyzing large data sets, with specific emphasis on financial and operational data: revenue cycle, profitability, unit economics, labor, etc.
  • Demonstrated experience in business analytics and data mining
  • Experience in a similar consulting function servicing cross-industry clients at a national level
  • Professional working knowledge of ETL transformations and manipulations using Alteryx as well as visualizations in Excel, Tableau, and PowerBI
  • Excellent written, presentation, leadership, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Ability to identify, visualize, and clearly articulate key trends, outliers, and other patterns observed in your analysis
  • Knowledge of programming languages such as SQL and Python a strong plus
  • CPA / MBA and/or relevant professional certification a strong plus

Candidate must be able to submit verification of his/her legal right to work in the United States, without company sponsorship.

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Salary Range: $80,000 to $135,000 per year.

About BRG

BRG combines world-leading academic credentials with world-tested business expertise and purpose-built emerging technologies. Our culture centers on agility and connectivity which sets us apart and gets you ahead.  


At BRG, our professionals include specialist consultants, industry experts, renowned academics, and leading-edge data scientists. Together, they bring a diversity of real-world experience, data, and human and artificial intelligence, to economics, disputes, and investigations; corporate finance; and performance improvement services that address the most complex challenges facing organizations across the globe.


Our unique structure nurtures the interdisciplinary relationships that give us the edge, laying the groundwork for more informed insights and more original, incisive thinking.  When paired with our global reach and resources, our diverse perspectives and technical capabilities make us uniquely capable to address our clients’ challenges. We get results because we know how to apply our thinking to your world.


At BRG, we don’t just show you what’s possible. We’re built to help you make it happen. 

BRG is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.

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