As a leading financial services provider, SMOUNT (an abbreviation of “Surmount”) helps domestic and international companies operating in mainland China with its series services in financial outsourcing, mergers & acquisition, private placement and initial public offering, which include:

1. M&A Services in China, including but not limited to:
- Financial/Tax/Human Resources Due Diligence, including assisting clients in the preparation of financial records to meet the criteria of initial public offering, private placement or other specific purposes; and
- Financial advisory for private placement and initial public offering, including introduction of the most suitable financial/strategic investors to accelerate the business development of companies.

2. Financial Outsourcing, including but not limited to:
- Accounting Services, including tax handling and negotiation with Government Authorities;
- Sarbanes-Oxley Services, including help companies set up necessary internal control mechanisms to best meet operation needs; and
- Tax Advisory Services, including advisory for optimal arrangement to avoid Transfer Pricing issue, Corporate/Individual Income Tax issue.

Clients of SMOUNT Services

SMOUNT aims to cooperate with first-tier foreign investors, mainly are private equities (“PE”) and venture capitals (“VC”), to create valuable synergy effect from the latter’s cooperation with domestic leading companies. The financial investors that SMOUNT has cooperated with include Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, The Carlyle Group, CDH investment, Citic Capital, Prax Capital, TVG Partners, etc. Meanwhile, SMOUNT also works with some worldwide strategic buyers in terms of their fast expansion in mainland China. Such clients include Grohe, Philip, Siemens, Photop, etc.

SMOUNT has provided financial outsourcing services to many multinational companies, which include American Standard, Cypress, Carrefour, Estee Lauder, McDonald’s, Yves Rocher. And, for more clients in this regard, please have a look at smountconsulting. In general, SMOUNT high-quality services have been well-recognized by its clients as professional, responsible, efficient and with high value.

SMOUNT People and their Career Path Designed

Professionals in SMOUNT mainly come from international investment banks, "Big 4" international accounting firms and "Fortune 500" commercial companies in mainland China and overseas, who are all committed to developing excellence in the practice of modern financial management in China.

Due to rapid business development in mainland China, SMOUNT looks forward to more talents to join with us, support and share the success with the Firm and its clients. Staff career path in SMOUNT is designed as follows, and promotion will be directly linked to your Performance, Experience and Responsibility. Fast promotion is expected to attract and retain more talents with SMOUNT for a fast growth in long run:

Level 1: Staff Associate
- Accomplish assignments with proactive attitude, reasonable efforts and constructive solutions to team leaders;
- Monitor own time against budget and communicate with team leaders, other team members and clients to provide better services on a timely basis; and
- Proactively seek ongoing development and feedback on performance and respond effectively.

Level 2: Senior Associate
- Work with team manager/partner to determine and implement the most effective approach to accomplish assignments;
- Monitor progress of team members toward completion of work and adjust work plan when necessary, meanwhile, develop strong client relationships to facilitate completion of the assignment ;
- Prepare initial draft of reports for manager’s review and follow up any outstanding issues; and
- Coach less experienced staffs and share knowledge with team members, together with effective feedback, to help qualified staffs grow up quickly.

Level 3: Manager
- Set approach to engagement which makes effective use of team members’ skills and is within budget for assigned component(s);
- Prepare final draft of reports for partner’s review and help the Firm develop a strong client relationship to facilitate completion of the assignments, service fee collection and further business opportunity; and
- Attract, develop, motivate, train and retain group staffs to build up a well-prepared professional team to provide better services to clients.

Level 4: Director
- As a department leader, work with firm partners to further develop SMOUNT people, review current practice to find out more business opportunities which may exist in service quality improvement, good client relationship, creative new products etc.;
- Work with service line managers to propose strategies for business development and client relationship management initiatives; and
- Work with service line managers to develop and implement marketing strategies and translate these into specific goals and activities across the whole marketing, brand, product and communications spectrum - including events, press briefings, hospitality programs, internal and external communications.

Level 5: Partner
- Timely review the current practice of SMOUNT to ensure SMOUNT continuously achieve “Clients’ Satisfaction, Employees’ Satisfaction and other Corporate Social Responsibilities”; and
- Timely analyze the financial performance of the Firm and future business opportunities in the market to ensure an ongoing healthy growth of the Firm.


If you are interested in developing your career in the fields of professional financial management, please email your latest CV and photo to SMOUNT at the following addresses:

Attention: Ms. Lace Zhang, Director
Email: HR@smountconsulting

For more information about SMOUNT market offerings and served clients, please have a look at its website at smountconsulting.