Financial Due Diligence Consultant - Post Merger CFO
VDS Consulting Group • West Palm Beach, Florida • Contractor
Posted on Fri, Sep 25, 2026
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.
AuditFriendly salary estimate
The employer did not post a salary for this role. Based on AuditFriendly's salary intelligence model (comparable live postings, role, seniority, and location), we estimate base pay of $154,000–$265,000 per year (median ~$202,000). This is an AuditFriendly estimate, not an employer-provided figure.
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