Advisory - Deals - Valuation - Senior Associate

In this role at PwC, you will focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. Your key responsibilities will include: - Supporting projects on valuation of businesses for raising capital, purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment, etc. - Working on building and reviewing financial models for discounted cash flow and market approach. - Preparing company, industry, and economic reviews for valuation reports. - Identifying comparable companies and computing various transaction-related multiples. - Using comparable companies to compute the weighted average cost of capital (WACC). - Obtaining training on relevant databases and acquiring knowledge required to use them efficiently. - Organizing research findings into meaningful deliverables. - Carrying out other ad-hoc research based on provided instructions. To excel in this role, you are expected to possess the following qualifications and skills: - Ability to analyze and anticipate client requests, interpret asks, and act according to expectations. - Good reasoning and analytical ability. - Good understanding of databases such as CapitalIQ, Bloomberg, ThomsonOne, etc. - Sound financial concepts. - Providing input on best practices and process optimization opportunities. - Capability to handle varied work requests in a short turnaround time. - Designing new research approaches to enhance quality and productivity. - Good working knowledge in MS Office tools. - Effective verbal and written communication skills. - Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and in a team. - Self-starter with the ability to multi-task and reprioritize constantly. Education/qualifications required for this role include a CA/CFA/MBA/Bachelor or Masters degree in any discipline with 1-4 years of experience in Valuations and related research.,