Assistant Director Strategy And Transaction Valuation And Modeling

Valuations and Business Modelling - Valuations – Assistant Director

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In an international firm like Deloitte, our strong global presence is complemented by our local reach and market knowledge. A career in Financial Advisory Services with Deloitte Corporate Finance Limited will equip you with a deep understanding of the local and regional business landscape, enabling you to identify opportunities and risks to our clients’ businesses. In addition, your breadth of vision will be engaged, as you match our global resources to our clients’ advantage. Our FAS practice encompasses a broad range of specializations and services but whose common goal is to offer strategic services to clients throughout every phase of the economic cycle. With such a wealth of specializations, you will have the opportunity to pick the one most suited to you.

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During your tenure as an Assistant Director in VBM - Valuations, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Review outputs of financial analyses to guide client’s management to make decisions with confidence
• Develop new and innovative approaches to analyzing data to help team draw meaningful conclusions; champion the use of advanced visualization to extract insights from a data set and present findings in a clear, logical manner to client executives
• Resolve escalated scope, timeline, or resourcing issues and shape team’s priorities to address most urgent and relevant tasks
• Manage engagement financials to ensure proper invoicing, staff billing, and engagement profitability
• Understand the larger ecosystem within which the client operates; use to facilitate discussions about potential solutions to the client’s most pressing deal issues
• Understand drivers of growth, profitability and cash flow as well as a client’s financial statements and key performance measures
• Identify relevant business trends, economic forces, and industry practices and confidently discuss with the client
• Build personal brand and support eminence building in chosen industry/sector
• Set direction regarding the development and compliance of standards, guidelines and service agreements
• Combine expertise in one stage of a transaction with a deep understanding of a particular industry/sector and advise on integration points and critical focus areas
• Ensure the accuracy of the models, valuation analyses, reports, and audit support documentation
• Review client’s existing financial model to ensure reliability by testing its mathematical accuracy, confirming that its logic is consistent with the commercial drivers of the business, and reviewing the reasonableness of the input assumptions
• Use qualitative and quantitative analysis to deliver insights on goodwill implications in a transaction

Leadership capabilities:

• Act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values
• Actively contribute to building the talent pipeline; create a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams
• Create opportunities to drive impact; anticipate client needs and deliver superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
• Build deep relationships across a diverse network and use a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
• Translate broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; align the team and set priorities to achieve objectives
• Apply deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
• Establish a strong leadership brand and inspire followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others

Qualifications:

• 10+ years or more experience in financial consulting (Financial Advisory/Corporate Finance) or Investment Banking/Merchant Banking, preferably in Corporate Finance Department with experience in areas such as business valuations, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence, financial modeling and restructuring, raising debt or equity
• Demonstrated ability to manage people and plan components of engagements along with ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines