TAS Senior Associate

Join Redpath

At Redpath, you'll be valued for who you are and supported in where you're going. We've created a culture rooted in trust, teamwork, and genuine relationships, where caring is at the core of how we treat each other and our clients. You'll do meaningful work here with people who bring a positive, solution-focused mindset to every challenge. Our team is proactive in all we do, taking initiative, clearing roadblocks, and staying ahead for our clients and each other. Here, your voice matters, your growth is a priority, and your work drives real impact. We're driven to improve, grow, and deliver excellence together, personally and professionally. This isn't just a job. It's a place to build a career and a community.

Transaction Advisory Services Team

The Redpath Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) team is comprised of former Big Four CPAs and large consulting firm professionals who provide private equity and corporate clients buy side and sell side financial accounting due diligence. The TAS team actively engages in assessing a target's quality of earnings, analyzing cash flows, reviewing working capital, identifying key business drivers, reviewing forecasts, and conducting comprehensive discussions with management and their advisors. They also routinely team with the firm's various stakeholders to deliver a truly integrated solution to clients.

Transaction Advisory Services Professional

As a Transaction Advisory Services professional, you will work with fast-growing companies and private equity firms on complex deals, help to identify key value drivers, challenge assumptions about future performance, search for and advise on hidden value, and work with other teams to deliver an integrated approach to our clients before, during and after the transaction.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in financial due diligence engagements related to the acquisition or disposal of businesses by private equity investors or strategic corporate buyers.
• Identify key risks and potential deal breakers, assess the strengths and weaknesses of the business against industry benchmarks, and assist in the evaluation of the potential transaction in the context of the clients' investment strategy.
• Prepare and analyze financial results of targets including quality of reported earnings, net assets, and cash flows; assess key operational data.
• Identify issues that impact purchase price and deal structuring.
• Synthesize and convert data into meaningful information used to drive observations, conclusions, and recommendations for discussions with target management.
• Assess findings to be incorporated into the client's valuation, sale and purchase agreement.
• Assist in the construction of deal-oriented reports and presentations for clients.
• Participate in meetings and conference calls with target company management and with client personnel and serve as a secondary point of contact for client personnel with respect to day-to-day execution matters.
• Project manage information flows and manage key stakeholders.

What You Need to be Successful:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Accounting and/or related major
• CPA or in process of obtaining certification
• Minimum 2 years audit experience at a top accounting firm
• Minimum 2 years experience in due diligence group
• Working knowledge of US GAAP
• Strong excel and power point skills required.
• Ranked a top performer in peer group

Additional Qualifications:

• Driven, self-starter
• Decisive, critical thinker, highly analytical
• Team oriented personality with maturity to work well individually with clients
• Ability to travel on-site to clients as needed
• Professional in style and demeanor/exercises good judgment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to articulate to senior members of target management, client representatives and colleagues
• Strong project management skills
• Ability to thrive and be effective in fast-paced culture
• Live in the Greater Twin Cities area commuting distance to St. Paul office to support a hybrid work arrangement

About Redpath and Company:

• Caring - We show genuine care for our clients and colleagues through meaningful relationships, collaboration, and a constant commitment to adding value in everything we do.
• Proactive - We take initiative, resolve potential obstacles, and are intentional with solutions provided to stay ahead of challenges and opportunities for our clients.
• Positive - We cultivate a solution-oriented, supportive culture that embraces change, encourages collaboration, and thrives in the face of challenges.
• Driven - We maintain an unwavering focus on excellence, consistently improving and delivering beyond expectations across all our projects.

Redpath and Company helps clients make more informed decisions that contribute to their financial well-being by providing proactive, innovative, and value-driven certified public accounting services for closely-held businesses, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations. The firm started operations in 1971. With offices located in downtown St. Paul (headquarters) and White Bear Lake, Minnesota, the firm ranks as one of the top CPA firms in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area with over 200 employees. Redpath and Company is a member of HLB International, a global network of independent advisory and accounting firms.

Redpath and Company offers a comprehensive benefit package, including:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision plans
• HSA and FSA
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability
• Company paid Short-Term Disability
• Paid parenting leave
• 401k plan with company match after 6 months of service

This role is eligible for an annual discretionary bonus based on individual, practice and firm performance.

Redpath and Company is an equal opportunity employer, and we use E-Verify to confirm the identity and employment eligibility of all new hires.