Employment:
Full Time
Deals, Transaction Services – Valuations (Technology, Media, and Telecom) – Senior Manager – Dubai
Line of Service
Advisory
Industry/Sector
TMT X-Sector
Specialism
Deals
Management Level
Senior Manager
Job Description & Summary
A career in our Valuations practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world’s leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company.
Our team helps organisations unlock greater deal value by providing robust value opinions and transaction model business advisory. As part of the team, you’ll research financial risks, provide forecast analysis, and develop financial models that assists our team in providing fair and accurate valuation advice and ultimately helps our clients enhance their deal value.
About the role:
As part of the leading global valuation practice with over 2,000 dedicated valuation professionals in 50 countries, we have the right people to support clients for various different type of valuation related work. Our Middle East valuations team operates on a regional basis but with team members based in each territory who understand the local market dynamics.
Within the practice, the ME valuations team represents a group of more than 20 professionals, working across various industry verticals as required. We also work collaboratively with the regional valuation team members and provide support on large complex regional valuation engagements. You could be working remotely with colleagues anywhere in the region.
You will enjoy potential for fast personal development in a dynamic team by playing an important role within the local and regional valuations practice. From the outset you will be exposed to a diverse range of challenging valuation work across industry sectors including company share valuations and/or financial instruments and valuations of intangible assets. Interaction with senior colleagues and senior client individuals will also provide plenty of opportunity for candidates to build business development and marketing skills.
You will:
– Assist partners/directors in carrying out valuation engagements
– Manage teams, projects and clients on a day to day basis
– Provide support to junior team members (senior associates/associates) in guiding and reviewing their work outputs
– Present valuation findings internally and externally to clients
– Build a network around your peer group internally within PwC and externally
– Assist partners/directors in external and internal business development
– Coaching junior staff in a mix of technical valuations skills, industry knowledge and soft skills.
– Assist and take part in various internal initiatives to assist the partners/directors in delivering those initiatives – (such as digitalization, industry specialization, value creation etc)
Essential Skills and Experience
We are looking for a Senior Manager who has an excellent track record and meets the following criteria:
– Experience of carrying out valuations for different purposes mainly in Technology, Media, and Telecom (financial reporting, disputes etc)
– Min 7 years of previous commercial, client-facing valuation work experience ideally in a big four with sound and in-depth technical and commercial knowledge of valuation concepts
– Direct involvement in delivering and managing valuation engagements is a key requirement for applying for this position
Academic background and proficiency:
– ACA, CFA or ACCA qualified and/or Master/ Bachelors’ degree in Finance/Accounting
– Hands on financial modelling experience with proficiency in Ms Excel
– Experience with PowerBi, Tableau will be a plus
Other necessary attributes:
– Strong analytical skills but tempered with an ability to think laterally
– Ability to deliver high quality written work
– Strong attention to detail combined with an ability to see the big picture
– Ability to work effectively in teams on occasion to tight deadlines
– Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence when interacting with others
– Ability to quickly grasp key business drivers and specific valuation issues
You’ll be joining an experienced and diverse team that will welcome your outlook and knowledge while also helping you to broaden and deepen your understanding of valuation and advisory. You’ll have the opportunity to take increasing amounts of responsibility and ownership of projects as your experience develops whilst being provided with required and flexible support.
At PwC Middle East, we’ve set out an ambitious purpose and strive to live it everyday: to solve important problems and build trust in society.
We’re a community of solvers that come together in unexpected ways to build trust and create sustained outcomes. We solve important problems, support one another as we grow, develop and build fulfilling careers.
PwC provides industry-focused services for public and private clients across Assurance and Audit, Deals, Consulting, Tax and Legal. We draw on our development legacy that brings together the collective experience of over 7,000 people in our region with offices across 12 countries to solve for tomorrow.
We’re striving to consistently deliver innovative work that builds trust and delivers sustained outcomes. And we’re proud of the strength that comes from all our different backgrounds and experiences and we value everyone’s uniqueness. We thrive in uncertainty, operate with integrity and leverage the diverse perspectives of our teams.
If you’re looking for a place that fuels your ambition to make a difference, that matches your curiosity with continuous learning opportunities and reimagines ways of working to enable you to lead a more balanced life, then you’re a future PwCer.
Source: Job Posting - gulftalent.com
