Valuation & Economics Senior Associate, Transaction Services
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Description Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 8,000 people in 12 countries across the region: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 328,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for. Job Description & Summary At PwC, we value every individual's role in shaping our future. We're looking for candidates who excel in their roles and embody our core behaviours of Trusted Leadership and Distinctive Outcomes. Trusted Leadership focuses on building trust, delivering sustained results, and showing courage and honesty. Distinctive Outcomes emphasize excellence, collaboration, and inclusiveness. We seek self-aware, collaborative individuals committed to continuous learning and delivering quality and integrity. The Middle East has been witnessing unprecedented growth in the M&A market as well as transaction volumes in line with the regional government’s ambitious growth targets. As the regional market continues to expand, the opportunity for individual and team exposure also grows. A career in our Valuations team, which sits within our Deals Transaction Services practice, can provide you the opportunity to help organizations realize the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Through data-driven insights, our Valuations team provides independent valuations to help organizations unlock greater deal value and provide transparency in their financial reporting. We help our clients understand the underlying valuation of their businesses and opportunities they are considering buying or selling. Responsibilities
- Supporting the team in performing robust business enterprise and equity valuations using the Income Approach, Market Approach and Net Assets Approach methods incorporating sector, deal and/or investment considerations.
- Interpreting results from various valuation methods applied and concluding on an appropriate valuation estimate.
- Delivering high quality work products and presenting valuation findings.
- Working with colleagues across all lines of services to deliver valuations involving other project teams.
- Assisting with the development of proposals to win new projects.
- Supporting in risk and quality activities and administrative requirements.
- Keeping up to date with valuation technical/market developments and contributing to thought leadership, technical forums and other practice development initiatives.
- Complying with all risk and quality and administrative requirements.
- Guiding junior team members and reviewing their work outputs.
- 3+ years of relevant experience within Valuations from a professional services background or Investment Banking & Private Equity.
- Hands-on experience with creating and reviewing financial models and valuations.
- Comprehensive understanding of how to review business plans.
- Exposure to asset and net worth, discounted cash flow.
- Understanding of transaction services related domain or a multinational organization.
- Keen to analyze a complex problem and solve using data-driven insights, accounting and finance knowledge.
- Motivated to build excellent working relationships and meet deadlines successfully in a fast-paced & dynamic environment.
- Confident communicator and can deliver messages both written and verbal with impact to a wide variety of audiences.
- Strong analytical skills and an ability to understand key business drivers.
- Ability to prioritize workload and meet tight deadlines.
- Excellent numeracy and analytical skills with a keen eye for detail.
- Your flexibility to travel 20% of the time. This means we may require you to work away from your base office location on a regular basis and frequent overnight stays may be required.
- Where possible, we will take your preferences into account and strike a balance between meeting your career development/personal needs and those of the business and our clients.
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