Advisory - Deals - Valuation - Senior Associate

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.

Focused on relationships, you are building meaningful client connections, and learning how to manage and inspire others. Navigating increasingly complex situations, you are growing your personal brand, deepening technical expertise and awareness of your strengths. You are expected to anticipate the needs of your teams and clients, and to deliver quality. Embracing increased ambiguity, you are comfortable when the path forward isn’t clear, you ask questions, and you use these moments as opportunities to grow.

Skills

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

• Respond effectively to the diverse perspectives, needs, and feelings of others.
• Use a broad range of tools, methodologies and techniques to generate new ideas and solve problems.
• Use critical thinking to break down complex concepts.
• Understand the broader objectives of your project or role and how your work fits into the overall strategy.
• Develop a deeper understanding of the business context and how it is changing.
• Use reflection to develop self awareness, enhance strengths and address development areas.
• Interpret data to inform insights and recommendations.
• Uphold and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), 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 Description

• Activities to be performed :
  
  

Support projects on valuation of businesses for raising capital, purchase

• price allocations, goodwill impairment etc.
• Work on building and reviewing financial models for discounted cash flow and market approach.
• Prepare company, industry and economic reviews for valuation reports.
• Identify comparable companies and compute various transaction related multiples.
• Use comparable companies to compute weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
• Obtain training on the relevant databases, acquire knowledge required to use the databases efficiently
• Organize research findings into meaningful deliverables
• Carry out other ad-hoc research based on instructions provided
  
  

Requirements

• Ability to analyze and anticipate client requests, interpret asks and act according to expectations
• Good reasoning and analytical ability
• Good understanding of databases (CapitalIQ, Bloomberg, ThomsonOne etc.)
• Sound financial concepts
• Provide input on best practices and process optimization opportunities
• Churn out varied work requests in short turnaround time.
• Capable of designing new research approaches which enhance quality and productivity
• Good working knowledge in MS Office tools
• Effective verbal and written communications skills
• Self-motivated and capable of working both independently and in a team
• Self-starter with ability to multi-task and constantly reprioritize
  
  

Education/qualifications

CA/CFA/MBA/Bachelor or Masters degree in any discipline with 1-4 years of experience in Valuations and related research.