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Business Modelling

• Assistant Director, Strategy and Transactions

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 Assistant 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

• 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

• 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

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 6-10 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

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 look for

• 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 1500 + 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 we offer

EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across six locations – Argentina, China, India, the Philippines, Poland and the UK – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

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