Deals - Global Valuations Modelling and Software Developer
- Recruiter
- PWC-1
- Location
- Bristol
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 01 Mar 2019
- Closes
- 25 Mar 2019
- Sectors
- IT, Software Development
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Our team collaborates across the PwC business lines of services to review and develop current or future operational strategies.
About the team
Valuation is at the heart of business decision making and our work really matters to our clients. As part of PwC
Deals and our wider global network, we work with the senior decision makers of our iconic client base, on the
most exciting and varied projects around the world.
We are now looking to recruit a Senior Associate to our Global Valuations Technology team, which sits within the
Deals National centre of excellence. This role will enhance our financial analytics and development capabilities in
order to enhance our service offering and drive efficiencies in how we deliver to clients across the world. This will
be fundamental in supporting our continued growth.
We are looking for someone with both a technical and commercial mind-set who can quickly get to the crux of business issues and shape the development of cutting-
edge technology to help us deliver "game changing" insights to our clients.
Every assignment is different, but we broadly define our offering under the key headings;
Deal related - Acquisition / disposal valuation advice, bid defence, fairness opinions, valuation of relative joint venture contributions, support for debt or equity raising.
Strategic or operational decision support strategic option review (including buy versus build), business portfolio analysis, investment appraisal, value impact of structural business changes (e.g. M&A, divestitures, restructuring, IPO), stock price under / over-performance, aligning executive reward to value creation.
Financial reporting - instrument and derivative valuations; purchase price allocations; impairment testing; real estate assurance; private equity, hedge and infrastructure fund valuations.
Dispute related articles or shareholder agreement valuations; expert determinations;" Honest broker"role, independent expert / expert witness.
Pension valuations transaction implications, asset backed funding, insufficiently resourced testvaluations, valuing employer covenants, section 143 valuations.
Tax purposes Negotiating with HMRC, management incentive scheme valuations, tax impacts of restructuring, tax implication and optimisation of transactions, considering a restructure.
software applications and databases used across a broad range of valuation engagements. Projects will be mostly
green field in nature, so you will have the opportunity to develop new solutions from the ground up and have
significant input on technical direction.
Your responsibilities will include but may not be limited to:
Developing complex financial models for use on a wide range of Valuations engagements; Influencing the development of bespoke applications using the .NET framework to integrate and enhance the teams business systems;
Testing applications/models and ensuring fixes are appropriately resolved;
Producing technical and user documentation; and Assist in the evaluation, selection, installation, configuration, maintenance, upgrade, and support of software applications within the firm.
manner, for a variety of different businesses then this is the role for you. You will be engaging directly with senior
members of our business and clients, solving their business problems and helping them generate value.
You will need significant experience demonstrating a number of the following skills:
Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude, possess both financial and commercial acumen and enjoy problem solving to understand the drivers of a business, analyse their data and use this to provide insight and advice to our clients;
Have an entrepreneurial mind set and self-starter mentality, and be comfortable with a degree of ambiguity to come up with creative solutions to complex problems and develop these ideas into structured deliverable projects;
An ability to work effectively on tasks, both individually and collaboratively;
The ability to manage time, prioritise tasks, self-review your work and produce deliverables of a high quality under tight client deadlines in time pressured environments;
A strong desire to acquire and share technical knowledge with others; Passion for 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);
Build collaborative working relationships at all levels, establishing credibility both internally and externally.
Strong Excel skills and a desire to develop these further (i.e. confident in formulae, model building);
Experience of developing applications using the .NET framework (preferably version 4.6 and onwards) with
Experience of using SQL Server (2008 and later); and
An understanding of basic accounting principles.
The following skills are also desirable:
Experience using visualization tools such as Power BI/Tableau/QlikView; Agile development;
Experience using version control systems, preferably Git;
Other coding languages such as Python; and
Experience working in a corporate deal environment.
This position is based in our Bristol office, located just near Temple Meads train station.
About PwC
We're one of the world's leading professional services organisations. From 158 countries, we help our clients, some of the most successful organisations on the globe, as well as its most dynamic entrepreneurs and thriving private businesses, to create the value they want. We help to measure, protect and enhance the things that matter most to them.
The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.
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Diversity
We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool, as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. And we aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.
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