Advisory - Deals - Valuation - Manager

Skills

• Analyse and identify the linkages and interactions between the component parts of an entire system.
• Take ownership of projects, ensuring their successful planning, budgeting, execution, and completion.
• Partner with team leadership to ensure collective ownership of quality, timelines, and deliverables.
• Develop skills outside your comfort zone, and encourage others to do the same.
• Effectively mentor others.
• Use the review of work as an opportunity to deepen the expertise of team members.
• Address conflicts or issues, engaging in difficult conversations with clients, team members and other stakeholders, escalating where appropriate.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firm's code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  

Job Overview

• Knowledge of key valuation methodologies for business entities and intangible assets, including Income, Market and Asset/Cost approaches, including business enterprise valuation, impairment testing and purchase price allocation;
• Good written and verbal communication skills including preparing memoranda and/or reports that communicate research findings and recommendations concisely, confidently and effectively;
• Ability to conduct in-depth client, industry and market research;
• Proactively seeking guidance, clarification and feedback on assigned projects;
• Use of Microsoft Office, specifically Excel for preparation, manipulation and analysis of large data sets;
• Works effectively as part of a diverse delivery team and recognizes the value of multiple perspectives
  

Basic Qualifications

• Must possess an CA / MBA Qualification or have equivalent work experience.
• Industry experience in any of the following: Energy, Utilities, Mining and Infrastructure; Financial Services; Healthcare and Pharma; Industrial Manufacturing and Services; Retail, Consumer and Leisure; Real Estate; or Technology, Media and Telecommunications
• Ability to identify key drivers of a business and potential deal breakers (financial and non-financial)
• Understanding of the processes in due diligence work, including dealing with risk management processes and procedures
• Excellent business writing and Excel skills (e.g. report writing)
• Experience with Alteryx, PowerBI and other data analytics and visualisation tools
• Excellent analytical skills and commercial awareness Interpersonal skills (nurturing talented teams, mentoring and developing staff, confident interacting with clients and management)
  

Activities To Be Performed

• Support projects on valuation of businesses for raising capital, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment, etc.
• Build and review financial models for discounted cash flow and market approach.
• Prepare company, industry, and economic reviews for valuation reports.
• Identify comparable companies and compute various transaction-related multiples.
• Use comparable companies to compute Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC).
• Obtain training on relevant databases and acquire the knowledge required to use the databases efficiently.
• Organize research findings into meaningful deliverables.
• Carry out other ad-hoc research based on instructions provided.
  

Requirements

• Ability to analyze and anticipate client requests, interpret asks and act according to expectations
• Good reasoning and analytical ability
• Good understanding of databases (Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Thomson One etc.)
• Sound financial concepts
• Provide input on best practices and process optimization opportunities
• Churn out varied work requests in short turnaround time.
• Capable of designing new research approaches which enhance quality and productivity
• Good working knowledge in MS Office tools
• Effective verbal and written communications skills
• Self-motivated and capable of working both independently and in a team
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task and constantly reprioritize
  

Education Qualifications