Advisory - Deals - Valuation - Senior Manager

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. In deal valuation at PwC, you will focus on providing analysis and valuation services for mergers, acquisitions, and other financial transactions. You will help clients make informed decisions by assessing the worth and potential risks of various deals.

Growing as a strategic advisor, you leverage your influence, expertise, and network to deliver quality results. You motivate and coach others, coming together to solve complex problems. As you increase in autonomy, you apply sound judgment, recognising when to take action and when to escalate. You are expected to solve through complexity, ask thoughtful questions, and clearly communicate how things fit together. Your ability to develop and sustain high performing, diverse, and inclusive teams, and your commitment to excellence, contributes to the success of our Firm.

Skills

Examples of the skills, knowledge, and experiences you need to lead and deliver value at this level include but are not limited to:

• Craft and convey clear, impactful and engaging messages that tell a holistic story.
• Apply systems thinking to identify underlying problems and/or opportunities.
• Validate outcomes with clients, share alternative perspectives, and act on client feedback.
• Direct the team through complexity, demonstrating composure through ambiguous, challenging and uncertain situations.
• Deepen and evolve your expertise with a focus on staying relevant.
• Initiate open and honest coaching conversations at all levels.
• Make difficult decisions and take action to resolve issues hindering team effectiveness.
• Model and reinforce professional and technical standards (e.g. refer to specific PwC tax and audit guidance), the Firms code of conduct, and independence requirements.
  
  

• Provide expert valuation reports for a variety of purposes including mergers and acquisitions(M&A), financial reporting, taxation, corporate planning (decision support) and corporate governance.
• Deliver in-depth understanding of the value of each entity or asset involved in their transaction, along with relevant technical and industry knowledge, and a true knowledge of the specific factors driving each individual transaction.
• Help engagement teams advise boards, management and special committees to arrive at informed decisions, and help engagement teams in providing credible perspectives as to whether a proposed transaction is fair, demonstrating they have weighed advice from credible sources.
• Establish credibility with stakeholders by demonstrating subject matter expertise and knowledge.
• Contribute to pursuit teams and proposal development including innovative approaches and methodologies tailored to address specific client requirements.
• Manage Valuations teams, coaching and supporting team development and sharing technical knowledge.
• Assist and take part in various internal initiatives (such as digitization, industry specialization, etc.) and in business development.
• Provide support to team members in valuation technical skills and industry knowledge.
  
  

• An interest in upskilling for a digital world and technology trends, an openness to learning new tools and adapting how you work.
• Completed undergraduate degree with outstanding academic credentials.
• Must possess a CA / MBA/ CFA qualification or an equivalent accounting or financial designation with 10-14 years of relevant experience.
• The role requires a demonstrated ability to develop strong relationships with territory teams.
• Proven ability to manage project workflows and deliver on time
• Proactive, takes ownership of processing and reviewing tasks and assignments, accepts responsibility for outcomes.
• Experienced at preparing and/or coordinating complex written and verbal materials.
• Experience as a team leader: supervising diverse teams to create an atmosphere of trust, seeking diverse views to encourage improvement and innovation and coaching staff including providing timely meaningful written and verbal feedback.
• Knowledge of financial modelling.