Valuation & Business Modeling – Valuations - Manager
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In an international firm like Deloitte, our strong global presence is complemented by our local reach and market knowledge. A career in Financial Advisory Services with Deloitte Corporate Finance Limited will equip you with a deep understanding of the local and regional business landscape, enabling you to identify opportunities and risks to our clients’ businesses. In addition, your breadth of vision will be engaged, as you match our global resources to our clients’ advantage. Our FAS practice encompasses a broad range of specializations and services but whose common goal is to offer strategic services to clients throughout every phase of the economic cycle. With such a wealth of specializations, you will have the opportunity to pick the one most suited to you.
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During your tenure as a Manager in VBM - Valuations, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:
- Performs analyses and applies a logical, structured, and disciplined approach to translate key financial and commercial aspects of a transaction into useful insights.
- Interprets and synthesizes data, exercises professional skepticism to challenge data, and identifies meaningful insights to develop recommendations that most effectively support a client’s deal objectives
- Prepares work plan to meet objectives within established budget and timeline
- Oversees the quality of deliverables of team and builds/maintains client relationships to ensure exceptional performance
- Researches pertinent client, industry, and technical matters, while using a data-driven approach to derive solutions
- Reviews and analyzes historical trading, cash flow, and balance sheets to identify risks or price affecting considerations
- Understands the drivers of growth within an industry/sector
- Identifies relevant trends, competitive landscape, and market conditions that merit discussion with the client
- Ensures that work meets quality assurance standards and that all relevant risks have been identified and addressed appropriately
- Owns all the areas of engagement management and risk management
- Provide valuation analyses for tax, financial reporting or other regulatory, compliance or management planning requirements
- Leads and coaches a team to conduct valuation for financial reporting and tax purposes
- Generates independent insightful valuations for financial reporting, tax, or other purposes
- Applies a logical, structured approach to guide teams to translate key financial and commercial aspects of transactions into a financial model
- Assists clients with key decisions by considering market best practices when developing financial models for pricing, debt and equity structuring, working capital forecasting and synergy analysis
Leadership Capabilities:
- Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make
- Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
- Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
- Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
- Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction
Qualifications:
- 8+ years or more experience in financial consulting (Financial Advisory/ Corporate Finance) or Investment Banking/ Merchant Banking, preferably in Corporate Finance Department with experience in areas such as business valuations, mergers & acquisitions, due diligence, financial modeling and re-structuring, raising debt or equity.
- Demonstrated ability to manage people and plan components of engagements along with ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.
- Recognized accounting qualification and/or CFA/CBV/CA certification preferred - otherwise MBA or equivalent, with emphasis on finance/financial planning or investment analysis.
- Advanced level of technical proficiency and computer literacy particularly with spreadsheets (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Bilinguals (Arabic & English) preferred