Transaction Manager

Roles and responsibilities

As a Director, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers with extensive consulting and industry experience, helping our clients solve their complex business issues from strategy to execution. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• 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 the results from the various valuation methods applied and concluding on an appropriate valuation estimate.
• Performing purchase price allocations and intangible asset valuations in accordance with IFRS 3 and IFRS 13.
• Providing expert opinions of value including fairness opinions and valuation reviews of third party reports.
• Delivering high quality work products and presenting valuation findings both internally and to C-Suite level clients (where required).
• Leading, managing and motivating a team in carrying out valuation engagements.
• Managing overall project economics, billings and collections.
• Providing support to junior team members in guiding and reviewing their work outputs.
• Building a network around your peer group internally within PwC and externally.
• Working with colleagues across all lines of services to deliver valuations involving other project teams.
• Developing and presenting compelling proposals to win new projects.
• Complying with all risk and quality and administrative requirements.
• Keeping up to date with valuation technical/market developments and contributing to technical forums and other practice development initiatives.
• Although you would be based in the UAE, a degree of flexibility in traveling between regional offices may be required as part of the role.

Desired candidate profile

• 12+ years of professional and proven experience with a focus on Valuations for Deals and Financial Reporting.
• Prior Energy, Utilities, & Resources sector expertise in a Transaction Services environment.
• CFA, qualified ACA or ACCA equivalent designations.
• A confident communicator who is able to deliver compelling messages with impact in a passionate and credible manner to influence a wide variety of audiences;
• An exceptional leader with a strong desire to coach others within their team;
• Prior exposure to and knowledge of external research databases (e.g., S&P Capital IQ) in quantifying assumptions for the use in valuation models and for general market research.
• Excellent Microsoft Excel skills (prior exposure to or experience in financial modeling).
• Eager to to build relationships with clients and teams
• Open to build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally and externally
• Advanced skills in analytical tools are preferred.
• Ability to develop strong client relationships and identify selling opportunities throughout a deal lifecycle.
• History of independently managing a team and delivering large scale projects.
• Contributing to thought leadership and business development, searching for and identifying prospective opportunities and supporting leadership in the sales process.
• Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, possess both financial and commercial acumen and enjoy problem solving to understand the drivers of a business, analyze their data and use this to provide insight and advice to our clients.
• Have an entrepreneurial mindset and self-starter mentality and be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity with little supervision to come up with creative solutions to complex problems and develop these ideas into structured deliverable projects.
• The ability to lead multiple projects and liaise with multiple stakeholders while ensuring high quality deliverables under tight client deadlines in time pressured environments.
• Passion for innovation, technology, and new tools, and applying and developing yourself to new areas (e.g., quickly getting up to speed with tools, analytical approaches and business challenges).