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Our Corporate Finance team specialise in mergers and acquisitions. We make an impact by advising our clients on buying, selling, and raising growth finance for their businesses. We are a market leading firm, ranking as one of the 5th largest firms nationally based on transaction volumes. Our deals range in value, typically from £1m to £50m. We are a highly experienced award-winning team that provide high-intensity deal management. Corporate Finance is all about combining a wide range of advisory skills to achieve the right solution for our clients. To achieve this, your role will involve researching markets, deal marketing, people skills, commercial awareness, and financial analysis.

Your role will be in Birmingham which we believe has the largest professional network/ community outside London that will be utilised to enhance your professional development.

Our Corporate Finance Graduate Scheme:

Our team is our greatest strength, so training, development, and progression opportunities are actively encouraged across all grades. Our Corporate Finance team is one of the largest in the Midlands and encompasses a range of skills and ages, making this a compelling training opportunity for the right candidate. You will have direct access to clients and obtain first-hand experience across a range of transactions and sectors including food and drink, manufacturing, and professional services.

Your role will include:

• Analysing financial performance
• Undertaking valuation of private companies
• Researching sectors to identify buyers or acquisition targets and communicating with them
• Detailed investigation into client businesses to fully understand value drivers, risks and opportunities
• Writing Information Memoranda to solicit offers, and advising on business plans to raise funds
• Assisting in the project management of transaction processes, including liaison with other financial advisers, solicitors, funders and clients.

You can expect to:

• Build your commercial acumen by working with clients from a variety of different sectors
• Enhance your network within the Midlands M&A professional community with regular interactions and marketing events
• Gain a high level of experience in dealing with clients from an early stage whilst being actively involved in all aspects of a transaction from the initial pitch stage and being a key member of the deal team to deliver a successful transaction for our clients
• Assisting the Corporate Finance leadership team on wider team initiatives
• Develop your skills through informal and formal training, including bespoke training courses

The skills and experience you will bring:

Accountancy is a people-focused profession. Whilst numeracy skills are required, our graduates need to be confident communicators to form relationships with colleagues and clients, therefore you will have a personable approach and demonstrate strong teamwork skills.

Due to the varied nature of working in Corporate Finance, you will have the ability to organise yourself and your workload, balance the competing demands on your time, and take personal responsibility for the development of your career.

Benefits of training with PKF Smith Cooper:

Training with a firm like PKF Smith Cooper offers you depth and variety in your client assignments. Our graduate’s benefit from exposure to a wide range of work with businesses of all sizes, many of them local to our offices.

Our partners take a direct interest in the development and progression of our graduates. We aim to equip every graduate with the skills they need to become a future leader – our managing partner started out at PKF Smith Cooper as a graduate himself, so who knows what you could achieve through our graduate scheme!

As an ICAEW and ACCA Approved Training Employer, we are recognised for our high-quality training and development.

Why PKF Smith Cooper?

• Our ambitious and supportive company culture is built on our values: Engage, Empower and Excel. We celebrate personal growth and reward hard work through a variety of initiatives, including our Kudos Reward Scheme.
• Our Partners will support and champion your professional development and career progression.
• We work with ambitious businesses of different sizes across a variety of sectors – no two jobs are the same!
• We are multi-award-winning accountants and business advisors, ranked the 11th biggest firm by UK fee income in the Accountancy Age Top 50+50

PKF International

As a member of PKF International, we are part of a prestigious global network of legally independent accounting firms. Located in the five fastest growing global markets, we have ground presence in 150 countries and span across many jurisdictions.

Operating in unison with member firms across the world, we share our ideas, expertise, and specialist resources to develop our specialist skills and services to better serve our clients.

What's in it for you?

Our benefits package has been shaped by our values and designed for our people. As part of Team PKF Smith Cooper, here are some of the things you can expect:

• A flexible working policy and dress for your diary scheme.
• A work-life balance – 25 days annual leave plus statutory bank holidays with the option to purchase additional annual leave, and your birthday off on us.
• One more week: a chance to experience working abroad through our international network - One Week More is an opportunity to extend your time in your holiday destination by working from a Member Firm office for one week, prior or after your holiday
• Rewards for actively embracing and embodying our values through our Kudos Reward Scheme.
• Regular social events and annual, company-wide away days, giving you the opportunity to develop relationships with people beyond your team and office.
• Bonus referral schemes for introducing new talent or clients so that when we benefit, you do too.
• Life doesn’t stop at the end of the working day and neither do our benefits. We also offer life assurance, retail discounts, and a private healthcare scheme.

How to apply?

Apply now to become a Corporate Finance Executive by following the steps at the bottom of the page. You can also find out about our other finance graduate schemes by visiting our graduate career website.

Applications will be reviewed as we receive them with successful candidates invited to a first interview. Due to the volume of applications we receive, unfortunately we are unable to provide specific feedback should your application be unsuccessful.

If you have any questions, please contact the team at [email protected]

Please note that whilst we welcome and encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply for our vacancies, we are unfortunately unable to accept applications from candidates requiring a visa to work in the UK.