SaT-VME-Associate Director

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EY-Strategy and Transactions (SaT) – VME Associate Director

As part of our EY-Valuation, Modelling and Economics 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’re looking for Associate Director with expertise in Business Modelling to join EY-VME (Valuation, Modelling and Economics). Over the past decade, financial modelling in the corporate finance space has continued to grow at a healthy space. However, in the digital era, with the advent cloud technologies, clients often require assistance far beyond financial modelling and that has led to a tremendous growth of decision support modelling services across the industry.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of a leading firm and develop your career through a broad scope of engagements, mentoring, and learning & development. Specifically, you will be a part of the team that helps clients with review and build of financial models for financial reporting, tax and regulatory compliance, transaction support and corporate strategy whilst incorporating sophisticated techniques to model data to assist clients in making better and quicker decisions.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage multiple client engagement teams, taking a lead role in understanding clients’ needs, conducting analyses and reporting results
• Build, manage and lead teams on corporate finance and decision modeling related topics
• Build internal and external branding for the teams in terms of thought leadership, leading client pursuits and ensure quality client deliverables
• Lead teams in developing models to build /review variety of financial models apart from using techniques like advanced statistics, AI/ML algorithms and advanced data modelling to build decision support tools
• Challenge yourself to continually learn and teach, mentoring others while developing your own career
• Take ownership of your projects, while working collaboratively with other team members
• Maintain and develop positive, productive, and professional relationships with clients and winning repeat business

Skills and attributes for success

• Experienced in reviewing/building complex financial models based in MS Excel/VBA
• Experienced in building tools to analyse/process data using technologies like R/Python, MS Azure
• Understanding of advanced statistics, AI/ML algorithms and related applications in the data modelling is preferred
• Excellent analytical, project-management, communication, interpersonal, and teaming skills
• The ability to work within a given budget and schedule, providing top-quality results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Experience in analyzing complex business situations from a capital allocation / diagnostics lens and providing state of the art solutions to clients

To qualify for the role, you must have

• An advanced degree (masters or Ph.D.) in a quantitative discipline, with demonstrated aptitude in quantitative and qualitative analysis, or equivalent experience
• A minimum of 12-15 years of relevant experience with a national valuation firm or accounting firm’s valuation practice, or in quantitative management or litigation consulting, investment banking, private equity/venture capital or commercial banking
• Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA, FRM, PRM or PMP designation is a plus, with an expectation of the completion of one designation within a given timeframe

Ideally, you’ll also have

• An advanced degree (masters or Ph.D.) in a quantitative discipline, with demonstrated aptitude in quantitative and qualitative analysis of financial instruments, or equivalent experience
• Excellent analytical, project-management, communication, interpersonal, and teaming skills
• The ability to work within a given budget and schedule, providing top-quality results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Should have developed / reviewed models in Excel/VBA, R, Python, MS Azure related technologies
• Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA, FRM, PRM or PMP designation is a plus, with an expectation of the completion of one designation within a given timeframe

The successful candidate must be committed to staying at the cutting edge of both, latest derivative valuation techniques and the financial and accounting standards that guide the use of these techniques. 

What we at GDS SaT offer

• 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 market-leading, multi-disciplinary team of 3500 + professionals, in the only integrated global transaction business worldwide.
• Opportunities to work with EY SaT practices globally with leading businesses across a range of industries

What working at EY offers

At EY, we’re dedicated to helping our clients, from start–ups to Fortune 500 companies — and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.

You get to work with inspiring and meaningful projects. Our focus is education and coaching alongside practical experience to ensure your personal development. We value our employees and you will be able to control your own development with an individual progression plan. You will quickly grow into a responsible role with challenging and stimulating assignments. Moreover, you will be part of an interdisciplinary environment that emphasizes high quality and knowledge exchange. Plus, we offer:

• Support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around
• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career
• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that’s right for you

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