Conduct financial due diligence on target companies by analyzing quality of earnings, cash flow, working capital, debt, liabilities, accounting accuracy, and projections. Support valuation, purchase agreements, and lender packages, then lead post-merger finance integration, including cash forecasting, KPI reporting, and exit-ready financial operations. The role offers an operating partner pathway toward interim CFO or finance leadership responsibilities.
Financial Due Diligence Consultant
Contract to hire · Operating Partner pathway (CFO / finance track)
You will test whether a target's earnings, cash flow, and debt are what management says they are. Your quality-of-earnings work sets the price and shapes the post-close finance plan.
What you'll do
Contract to hire · Operating Partner pathway (CFO / finance track)
You will test whether a target's earnings, cash flow, and debt are what management says they are. Your quality-of-earnings work sets the price and shapes the post-close finance plan.
What you'll do
- Build quality-of-earnings analyses: normalize EBITDA and quantify add-backs and one-time items.
- Examine historical earnings, cash conversion, and net working capital trends; propose a working capital peg.
- Identify debt and debt-like items, off-balance-sheet obligations, and contingent liabilities.
- Verify reporting accuracy: revenue recognition, cut-off, reserves, and accounting policies.
- Tie financial results to operating drivers such as yield, throughput, pricing, and inventory.
- Stress-test management projections with scenario and sensitivity analysis.
- Feed findings into the purchase agreement, valuation model, and lender package.
- After close, set up the 13-week cash forecast, KPI reporting, and finance integration.
- 7+ years in transaction services, audit, or corporate finance; 3+ years of buy-side or sell-side diligence.
- CPA or CA strongly preferred; CFA or MBA a plus.
- Expert Excel and financial modeling; experience with data rooms and analytics tools.
- Knowledge of US GAAP; IFRS a plus for cross-border deals.
- Industrial, manufacturing, or PE portfolio company background preferred.
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