Assistant Director, Valuations, Financial Advisory, London

Join our high performing Valuations team, a market leader in providing valuation advice and opinions to clients ranging from technology start–ups to global blue–chip corporates to professional investors.

We will provide you with the opportunity to expand your career by becoming a commercial and technical adviser on critical value related matters and build deep industry and sector expertise.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.

Our valuations team

Our Valuations team, which is part of Deloitte Advisory Corporate Finance, advises on high profile assignments that have significant impact on, or are of high importance to our clients.

We advise on the valuation of a broad range of subjects, including businesses, debt and financial instruments across the capital spectrum, different types of assets, joint ventures and intellectual property.

Our clients

Every year, we advise over 100 clients in all industries in both the private and public sectors including multinationals, governments, corporates, financial institutions, private equity, family owned businesses and entrepreneurs.

Clients seek our world–class valuation advice and independent valuations, typically in situations where there is, or could be, a material value impact, including:

• M&A transactions and capital raising;
• Strategic decisions, including joint ventures and strategic partnership agreements;
• Fund / portfolio investments;
• Disputes, arbitration and mediation;
• Intra–group restructuring and tax valuations;
• Financial reporting; and
• Incentive schemes.

Your opportunity

Deloitte is an equal opportunities employer that understands, values and actively advocates diversity and inclusion.

Our team of valuation professionals come from diverse backgrounds and industries to bring together skills and experiences to deliver market leading insights, client service and advice. Our business has grown very rapidly over the last few years with a continued steep grow trajectory to meet a significantly increasing client and market demand. We are therefore looking to recruit experienced Assistant Directors who are driven, ambitious and emerging leaders to join our team.

Your work will be interesting, challenging and varied and will offer you great opportunities to develop your commercial, financial analytical and valuation advisory skills, as well gaining rewarding client engagement experience.

Deloitte encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.

Our Valuations team works seamlessly with colleagues across Deloitte, both in the UK and internationally. Other teams that we work closely with include M&A Advisory, Transaction Services, Audit, Modelling, Tax and Forensics to deliver end–to–end client service and solutions.

Your role

As an Assistant Director within our high–performing and fast–paced team you will play an integral part in advising our clients on value related matters.

You will be expected to:

• Develop and apply technical and commercial insights in a valuation context;
• Manage and execute valuation engagements;
• Effectively manage, develop and coach more junior team members;
• Apply financial analytical knowledge and experience to important client issues;
• Develop, review and interpret analysis and present clearly articulated, considered and insightful conclusions;
• Develop effective relationships with clients and internal Deloitte stakeholders;
• Actively pursue new revenue and business development opportunities; and
• Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture.

Professional skills, experience and attributes

Your professional skills, experience and attributes should include:

• Valuation experience;
• Consulting experience within a professional services environment (e.g. Big 4, top tier valuation team or a corporate development team);
• Significant experience of performing complex analyses as well as interpreting and presenting conclusions in a concise and clear manner;
• Project management and project organisation, including working across several projects simultaneously, effectively prioritising and delegating tasks;
• Excellent writing and communication skills;
• Team building, project management, multi–tasking and delegation skills;
• Proactive and willing to own and take responsibility for project delivery;
• Involvement in business development activity and relationships; and
• Exceptional financial analytical skills with proficiently in Excel.

What we offer

• Excellent career and development prospects;
• Access to high quality clients within a dynamic and professional environment;
• Rewarding work with an attractive work–life balance;
• A great team environment with strong networking, referral and collaboration across different teams within Deloitte;
• Cutting–edge learning, development and a clear pathway to specialism;
• Competitive remuneration package, including discretionary annual bonus;
• Attractive benefits, including leave entitlement; and
• Flexible working options (per below).

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

You will be based in our London office. The role may also involve travel and will require flexibility at times to meet peaks of work inherent in our client engagements.

For a full job description please visit our online Deloitte Careers portal.