Job Description

The Monitoring Trustee team is a dynamic consultancy team providing companies and regulatory authorities with advice on devising and monitoring the implementation of competition remedies in merger, anti-trust, and state aid cases. Principally, this involves conducting extensive financial and legal analysis on complex transactions including the structuring of divestments and reporting on the operational health and strategy of international businesses.

The role will be based in London, involving some travel to meet our international clients across Europe and beyond.

You will be required to:

• Monitor compliance of parties with commitments offered to competition authorities in the UK, EU and globally (North and South America, Asia) 
• Manage projects or work streams of larger projects (e.g., monitoring of divestiture processes, viability monitoring of divestment businesses and hold-separate/ring-fencing obligations)
• Assess potential purchasers of divestment businesses (e.g., review of business plans, financial resources etc.) 
• Monitor behavioral commitments (e.g., prices, bundling etc.)
• Identify business development opportunities and support in pitches in order to contribute to meeting the Consulting team's sales budget. 
• Assist in/lead the development of training, engagement procedures and methodologies
• Mentor, coach and develop more junior staff

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Extensive practical experience in transaction advisory services, valuations or monitoring trustee services 
• Strong academic background with financial qualifications (exam qualified) such as ACA, ACCA or CFA (or equivalent)
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to interpret data with a critical eye, generate insights and construct solutions are required 
• Excellent drafting skills and communication skills both oral and written
• Communicates team goals with clarity, sets clear objectives for more junior team members, providing timely feedback and support as necessary 
• Experience of being in a client-facing role with an ability to build and develop relationships with all key stakeholders
• Strong English skills 
• Strong IT skills (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
• Promotes the firm's values and beliefs, demonstrating integrity and maintaining an ethical stance, using flexibility and tact to express views as necessary