Assistant Manager Strategy And Transactions Valuation And Modeling Insights

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Role Overview

During your tenure as an Assistant Manager in Valuation and Modeling, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:

• Builds analytical models to handle large data sets with Excel, Tableau, or other relevant specialized tools/programs that can be interpreted convincingly.
• Maintains a working knowledge of measurement tools, benchmarks, statistics, and metrics needed to quantify and analyze aspects of deal risk.
• Manages to deadlines to help the team stay on track during a transaction, adapting to changing priorities as they arise.
• Analyzes financial and accounting information when evaluating transactions.
• Outlines a quality assurance plan, specifying the standards, tools, and techniques to define priorities needed to provide high-quality services.
• Conducts market analysis and develops an initial hypothesis around growth opportunities, upside potential, and downside risks.
• Executes valuation analyses for tax, financial reporting, or other regulatory, compliance, or management planning requirements.
• Leverages economic and industry knowledge to assess the validity of financial models and reports.
• Performs site inspections to obtain an understanding of the major assets, how they are being used within the business, and for discussion of future plans for the assets.
• Identifies critical assumptions and facts that underline valuation estimates and provides alternative approaches as required.
• Generates models and analyses as industry requirements dictate and leverages economic and market condition knowledge to assess the validity of models and reports.
• Prepares robust business planning or transaction models by applying detailed understanding of commercial practicalities, accounting and finance knowledge, technical ability, quantitative analysis, and logic.
• Creates progressive financial models that capture future operating, investing, and financing activities, and helps clients determine future profitability, financial position, and risk.

Leadership Capabilities

• Identifies and embraces our purpose and values and puts these into practice in their professional life.
• Develops self by actively seeking opportunities for growth, shares knowledge and experiences with others, and acts as a strong brand ambassador.
• Seeks opportunities to challenge self; teams with others across businesses and borders to deliver and takes accountability for own and team results.
• Builds relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence peers and other stakeholders.
• Understands objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns own work to objectives, and sets personal priorities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or any related field.
• 6-7 years of experience in financial advisory, public auditing, or accounting, preferably with Big Audit Firms.
• International accounting qualification is desired: CA, ACCA, or CPA. Preferably CA.
• Knowledge of best practice reporting and international financial valuation and modeling.
• Experience in transaction support, valuation, due diligence, financial restructuring, feasibility studies/projections, IPOs.
• Advanced level of technical proficiency and computer literacy particularly with spreadsheets (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
• Supervise staff, inspect client financial records, compile and analyze data, prepare detailed audit reports, and resolve accounting research issues.
• Fluency in English. Preference will be given to bilingual candidates (English/Arabic).