Your key responsibilities

• Manage valuation engagements for financial reporting, tax, and management planning purposes.
• Develop models to value a variety of financial instruments and to systematically study various business situations, using option pricing theory, fixed income and structured finance models, Monte carlo simulation, Binomial Lattice, statistical analysis, optimization, decision analysis and other techniques from the financial engineering or decision sciences literature.
• Assess fair value for complex structures such as Private Company Equity Securities, Options, Warrants, Preferred & Common Stock, Performance Awards, Convertible Notes, Debt and Related Embedded Derivatives, Fixed Income Securities, Contingent Considerations and Derivatives under ASC 718, ASC 820, ASC 946, ASC 480, ASC 805 etc.
• Demonstrate strong derivative pricing and financial modelling skills, with the ability to create both valuation and financial models based on a description of a client’s derivative financial asset or operational and financial business plan.
• Assume a steering role in report generation and detailed financial modelling. Identify issues and propose strategies related to the procedures executed.
• Use current technology and tools to enhance the effectiveness of services provided. Stay abreast of current business and economic developments relevant to our as well as the client's business.
• Maintain and develop positive, productive, and professional relationships with EY offices globally.
• Identify business development opportunities and assist Partners and Senior Managers on proposals and new business opportunities.
• Demonstrate teamwork and responsibility with engagement team members.
• Manage a team of 7-10 Valuation professionals. Supervise, develop, and mentor professionals at the Staff and Senior level.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.

Skills and attributes for success

• Excellent thoughtfulness, project management, communication, interpersonal and teaming skills 
• Experience in Equity Research, Investment Banking and Corporate Finance  
• Experience in valuing complex securities, including options, warrants, fixed income securities, structured products and other derivatives, or in analysing complex business situations using quantitative models.
• Experience in financial modelling, including experience building models from scratch in MS Excel and related software preferred
• Computer proficiency, including at least one Financial Engineering or statistical software package (e.g MATLAB, Python, R), MS Excel/VBA, Word and Powerpoint.
• Exposure to databases such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg etc.
• Willingness and ability to travel, when necessary

To qualify for the role, you must have

• A post graduate degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting (CA) or Business with 10-12 years of related work experience
• A minimum of 5 years direct experience in utilizing Valuation techniques and methodologies such as Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), Income Approach, market comparable, Option Pricing Model, Monte Carlo Simulation, Binomial Lattice etc. in a business valuation firm or practice or in venture capital, investment banking, commercial banking, financial research, national valuation firm or experience working in a corporate finance role for an organization, preferably for M&A activities Experience in financial modelling including experience building models from scratch in MS Excel and related software preferred 
• Preferable achievement in or significant progress towards a CFA, ASA, CPA or related certification