Strategy and Transactions – Valuation, Modeling and Economics
GDS Valuation, Modeling and Economics (VME)
With over 3,500 valuation professionals worldwide (600+ in GDS VME), no similarly positioned global professional organization can match our breadth of capabilities or our depth of resources.
Responsibilities
- Steer engagement teams, help executing Business Modelling services which support key choice makers in developing and implementing their transaction, financing or operational conclusions
- Understand client requirements and build financial models that help support clients with various aspects of corporate finance conclusion making process
- Manage engagements for modelling transactions (mergers and acquisitions), financial feasibility of projects, corporate and debt restructuring, valuation and corporate strategy
- Develop deep understanding of the markets and key clients to identify opportunities for new services and solutions, that drive sustainable growth and future-proof our business; lead conversations with stakeholders with consulting and problem-solving mindset
- Identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed
- Inspire 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
- Leverage own functional knowledge and project management experience to ensure high quality output and robust service delivery on engagements; coach and guide the team on complex functional issues and have a robust learning and development program for continuous skill development
- Engagements include corporate finance diagnostic services and related decision support modelling across variety of sectors using a combination of Excel, VBA, PowerBI and Python
- Deep functional and sector knowledge is required to ensure value-driven and insightful results
- Lead high-complexity engagements and critical account relationships to build a successful partnership and become a trusted advisor to clients and EY onsite leaders
- Measure and monitor key performance metrics and make required interventions to bring performance on course
- Adopt new-age technology to enhance value of output and efficiency in processes; drive team towards continuous innovation in services and ways of working
Job requirements
An advanced degree (masters or Ph.D.) in a quantitative discipline, with demonstrated aptitude in quantitative and qualitative analysis or equivalent experience. Typical candidates will have at least 9+ years’ of industry experience with academic and professional work related to corporate finance consulting
- Achievement of or significant progress towards a CFA, FRM, PRM or PMP designation is a plus
- Experience in setting-up and expanding service delivery teams, driving transformation and innovation, and achieving challenging growth targets
- Experience of managing senior stakeholders and exposure to global set-up
- Proficient in using data and information to draw insights, along with ability to present a compelling story through impactful presentations and visual tools. Preference to those with strong data analytics skills
- Strong communication and influencing ability
- Excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and teaming skills
- Willingness and ability to travel, when required
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