Senior - Deal Advisory
Job Description
Due to continued growth, we are seeking an experienced professional to join our Deal Advisory team. This is an excellent opportunity for a high-performing, commercially focused individual to play a key role in delivering complex transactions and contributing to the continued expansion of the practice.
The ideal candidate will be a qualified accountant with strong commercial acumen, proven analytical capability, and a keen eye for detail. At this level, you will be expected to take ownership of engagements, manage client relationships, and support the development of junior team members, while contributing to business development initiatives.
Grant Thornton’s Deal Advisory team is a market leader, with extensive experience across mergers and acquisitions, transaction advisory services, valuations, capital raising, and business planning.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and manage detailed financial due diligence and transaction reviews
- Oversee the preparation of business plans and financial analyses
- Play a key role in buy-side and sell-side mandates, including MBO and MBI transactions
- Lead the preparation and review of valuation reports
- Support and advise on debt and equity fundraising processes
- Develop and review complex financial models
- Prepare high-quality client deliverables and reports
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, financial institutions, and legal advisors
- Contribute to marketing initiatives, pitch materials, and business development activities
- Mentor and support junior team members, ensuring high-quality output
Skills & Experience:
- ACA / ACCA / CFA qualified (or equivalent)
- Significant experience in corporate finance, transaction services, or a related advisory role
- Strong technical expertise in financial analysis, modelling, and valuation
- Proven ability to manage multiple engagements and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence in client-facing situations
- Demonstrated commercial awareness and a proactive, solutions-driven mindset
- Experience in professional services is essential
About Us
At GT Ireland we don’t just predict your future, we build it.
What does this mean for you?
About the Team
At Grant Thornton, we provide equitable opportunities for all our colleagues. We are a responsible, sustainable business where equity, diversity and inclusion (ED&I) is at the forefront of our workplace culture agenda, and today, we continue to build and develop on our existing ED&I structure and strategy to meet our workplace culture needs. People are at the heart of our business and teams built with varied individuals present diverse viewpoints, which need to be heard and valued.
We are all at our best when we are able to be ourselves and we view integrity and authenticity as integral values to bring to our day-to-day work-life at the firm. We are excited to see the personality and perspectives you will bring to our team because we know we will all benefit from them. Diversity of thought, background and experience enables better decision-making, improves the quality of our delivery, and helps us to meet the needs of our clients. Our firm is built on people and their ideas, so we want to hear all the new perspectives and fresh thinking you have to offer. You form the bedrock of our firm’s best-practice principles and we will champion you as leaders from day one.
Reward and benefits
Our reward and benefits are designed to create an environment where our people can flourish. We are committed to building a culture where our people have access to the necessary benefits to help promote a healthy lifestyle and thrive.
Recognition
We want to create a culture of recognition and celebrating success, by saying thank you to people who surpass our expectations and recognising the right values and behaviours. Our Shout Out recognition scheme is our way of highlighting and promoting achievements. Whether you simply want to say thank you, celebrate a special occasion or give an award for doing something exceptional, you can do all of this and more through the scheme.
