SaT-VME-Assistant Director
Job description
At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.
Manager – Complex Securities
As part of our EY-Valuations team, you will help clients understand the value of their business, securities, intellectual property, capital equipment, intangibles and other assets. The group is comprised of several key areas, including business valuation, business modelling, capital equipment and complex securities.
The opportunity
We are looking for Managers with expertise in Quantitative Finance and Complex Securities Valuation to join EY-VME (Valuation, Modelling and Economics). This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a prominent firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development
Your key responsibilities
- Manage valuation engagements for financial reporting, tax, and management planning purposes.
- Develop models to value a variety of financial instruments and to systematically study various business situations, using option pricing theory, fixed income and structured finance models, Monte carlo simulation, Binomial Lattice, statistical analysis, optimization, decision analysis and other techniques from the financial engineering or decision sciences literature.
- Assess fair value for complex structures such as Private Company Equity Securities, Options, Warrants, Preferred & Common Stock, Performance Awards, Convertible Notes, Debt and Related Embedded Derivatives, Fixed Income Securities, Contingent Considerations and Derivatives under ASC 718, ASC 820, ASC 946, ASC 480, ASC 805 etc.
- Demonstrate strong derivative pricing and financial modelling skills, with the ability to create both valuation and financial models based on a description of a client’s derivative financial asset or operational and financial business plan.
- Assume a steering role in report generation and detailed financial modelling. Identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed.
- Use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of services provided. Stay abreast of current business and economic developments relevant to our as well as the client's business.
- Maintain and develop positive, productive, and professional relationships with EY offices globally.
- Identify business development opportunities and assist Partners and Senior Managers on proposals and new business opportunities.
- Demonstrate teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members.
- Manage a team of 7-10 Valuation professionals. Supervise, develop, and mentor professionals at the Staff and Senior level.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
Skills and attributes for success
- Excellent thoughtfulness, project management, communication, interpersonal and teaming skills
- Experience in Equity Research, Investment Banking and Corporate Finance
- Experience in valuing complex securities, including options, warrants, fixed income securities, structured products and other derivatives, or in analysing complex business situations using quantitative models.
- Experience in financial modelling, including experience building models from scratch in MS Excel and related software preferred
- Computer proficiency, including at least one Financial Engineering or statistical software package (e.g MATLAB, Python, R), MS Excel/VBA, Word and Powerpoint.
- Exposure to databases such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg etc.
- Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary
To qualify for the role, you must have
- A post graduate degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting (CA) or Business with 10-12 years of related work experience
- A minimum of 5 years direct experience in utilizing Valuation techniques and methodologies such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Income Approach, market comparable, Option Pricing Model, Monte Carlo Simulation, Binomial Lattice etc. in a business valuation firm or practice or in venture capital, investment banking, commercial banking, financial research, national valuation firm or experience working in a corporate finance role for an organization, preferably for M&A activities Experience in financial modelling including experience building models from scratch in MS Excel and related software preferred
- Preferable achievement in or significant progress towards a CFA, ASA, CPA or related certification
Ideally, you’ll also have
- Project management skills
- Strong communication and presentation skills
What we look for
- A Team of people with commercial acumen, technical experience and enthusiasm to learn new things in this fast-moving environment
- An opportunity to be a part of a market-prominent, multi-disciplinary team of 1400 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
- Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with prominent businesses across a range of industries
What we offer
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success, as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
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