Advisory - Deals - Valuation - Associate 2 - KOL/BLR

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. In deal valuation at PwC, you will focus on providing analysis and valuation services for mergers, acquisitions, and other financial transactions. You will help clients make informed decisions by assessing the worth and potential risks of various deals.

Driven by curiosity, you are a reliable, contributing member of a team. In our fast-paced environment, you are expected to adapt to working with a variety of clients and team members, each presenting varying challenges and scope. Every experience is an opportunity to learn and grow. You are expected to take ownership and consistently deliver quality work that drives value for our clients and success as a team. As you navigate through the Firm, you build a brand for yourself, opening doors to more opportunities.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Apply a learning mindset and take ownership for your own development.
• Appreciate diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Adopt habits to sustain high performance and develop your potential.
• Actively listen, ask questions to check understanding, and clearly express ideas.
• Seek, reflect, act on, and give feedback.
• Gather information from a range of sources to analyse facts and discern patterns.
• Commit to understanding how the business works and building commercial awareness.
• Learn and apply professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), uphold 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.
  
  

Job Responsibilities

The job is of a Valuation Associate where the candidate should have a fair knowledge of the various valuation methodologies like Income Approach (DCF Method) and Market Approach(GPCM and GTM method) and the valuation methodology of Intangible Assets mainly Customers, Technology and Trade name.

• The valuations under Purchase Price Allocation (ASC 805); Goodwill Impairment (ASC 350) and Stock Based Compensations (ASC 718) is done for financial reporting.
  
  

Requirements

• Level of experience - good
• Education/qualifications – B.Com Graduate and CFA Level 2 candidate
• Industry experience – IT, Software and Pharma Industry
• Technical capability – Valuation Concepts and methodologies around Business Valuation and common stock valuation.
• Key Personal attribute – Good technical and communication skills