PwCSenior Manager - Transaction Services
Jan. 2006 - Mar. 2011Senior manager of the Transaction Services Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Budapest, with more than 8 years deal experience. Specialized in providing buy side due diligence services, completion account and agreed investigative reviews. Assisted in acquisitions in industries such as industrial manufacturing, logistics and transportation, retail & consumer products, telecommunications, publishing, energy – oil & gas, and real estate, and other sectors in Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia and Ukraine. Responsibilities on the engagements:
- Managing of projects of various sizes, ranging from the small real estate deals to the large international acquisition projects.
- Managing larger work groups (8-10 people), including the coordination and management of more regional teams at the same time.
- Coordination with the other advisors of the deal (tax, legal and environmental teams).
- The full management of assignments from the contracting till the issuance of the report; day-to-day communication with the clients on the progress of the project; regular presentation of findings to the clients; active participation on Management Meetings.
- Reviews of Sale and Purchase Agreements of the deals before signing by the clients. Key competences:
- “top-down” analysis of the companies’ business and an assessment of business risks;
- analytical procedures to compare past performance with budgets, forecasts and business plans;
- detailed review of medium and long term business plans, analysis of the reasonableness of business plan assumptions;
- sensitivity analysis of business plans;
- determination of recurring EBITDA;
- analysis of the companies’ historical balance sheets and income statements and cash flows;
- KPI performance overview;
- analysis of net debt and working capital position