FS – Valuations & Business Modelling – Valuations Executive

Ernst Young have a superb opportunity for a Valuations candidate to join the growing Valuations and Business Modelling team. A leading valuations practice in the UK, the Valuation team has over sixty dedicated valuers working across sectors, predominantly based in London.

As a financial services specialist Executive within the Valuation team, you will be involved in valuations across number of areas. Working as part of a small team, our Executives value businesses, shares and intellectual property.

Typical responsibilities include:

- Gaining a thorough understanding of the business being valued and its market through researching and analysis, adopting research tools such as Bloomberg, FactSet, DowJones Factiva, and Thomson Research

-Selecting appropriate comparable quoted companies and transactions to use as valuation benchmarks, calculating valuation multiples and applying these in analysis and performing discounted cash flow or dividend discount model based valuations from forecasts

- Regular liaison with clients at all levels, responding to day-to-day queries and attending client meetings whilst working closely with members of the team, sharing responsibility for the project, providing support, and communicating all issues, conclusions, and progress.

The successful candidate will ideally have:

- A professional qualification such as ACA, CFA or equivalent (preferably first time passes), -and / or a number of years valuation or corporate finance experience, preferably in the financial services sector

- Able to demonstrate intellectual rigour and commercial awareness

- First-class numeracy and analytical skills, and strong academic

- Professional track record with exposure to valuations at other professional services firms, consultancy firms or banks would be advantageous.

Ernst Young is in the business of delivering seamless, consistent, high-quality professional services worldwide. We have 152,000 individuals across 140 countries, with an array of talents, who deliver these services daily.

United by the belief that every person, organisation and community needs help to achieve their potential, we strive to use our talents to make a real difference to each other, to our clients and to the communities in which we work and live, whilst enjoying the flexibility to devote time to what matters to you, in your business and personal lives.

Whether your career lies in assurance, tax, transaction, advisory or support services, you will be joining an organisation where you count as an individual and everything you need for professional and personal success is already in place.