Valuations - Consumer Industrial Products - Manager

A career in our Valuations practice, within Deals Transaction Services, will provide you the opportunity to help organisations realise the potential of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures and capital markets. In short, we help some of the world's leading companies originate, create, execute, and realise value from deals. Through data driven insights we help our clients move in the right direction ensuring maximum value for their company. Our team helps organisations unlock greater deal value by providing robust value opinions and transaction model business advisory. As part of the team, you'll research financial risks, provide forecast analysis, and develop financial models that assists our team in providing fair and accurate valuation advice and ultimately helps our clients enhance their deal value.
Valuations - Consumer Industrial Products - Manager
Who we're looking for
Are you looking to become a Consumer Industrial Products & Services ("CIPS") valuations specialist in a dynamic business in the UK market?
Or, are you already working in the industry, but looking for an opportunity to develop your career, working with some of the highest profile clients and landmark deals across the sector, developing deep valuation skills?
About the team
In Lead Advisory we offer a full range of financial advisory services to our clients across corporate finance, which includes acquisitions and disposals for corporate and private equity clients, restructuring M&A, valuations and debt & capital advisory.
Our Valuations business is a thriving, growing and innovative team of individuals who work collaboratively with our clients to value their businesses, shares, financial instruments and intangible and tangible assets. Our clients rely on our valuation insights to make commercial decisions, execute transactions, resolve disputes and meet their regulatory requirements.
We have a large team of 175 people spread across the UK specialising along industry lines. We believe that having a proper in-depth understanding of the issues and opportunities facing each sector is critical to producing commercial and robust valuations.
The CIPS team provides deep sector expertise to a broad portfolio of clients, ranging from high-growth startups to some of the biggest and most established players globally.
We are looking to recruit a Manager level individual into our London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds offices. This provides the opportunity for a successful candidate to work in a fast paced business alongside a growing team in a rapidly developing sector.
We are proud of our caring and supportive team culture, and it is an important aspect of our core values.
About the role

The Manager role combines opportunities to develop deep valuation skills, to gain insights into different businesses and sectors, to develop your network and most of all, to learn and collaborate with a fun and talented team.
The day to day work of a Manager typically includes research, financial analysis, financial modelling and report writing (all in a business or share valuation context), developing softer-skills such as relationship building, coaching others, contributing to thought leadership and helping the wider team to win (and then deliver) client projects.
We believe our team is a great place to build a career, in an environment that is commercially focused, innovative and collaborative.
Key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting in the delivery of valuations and advisory services to our clients.
  
• Analysing business plans and CIPS sector dynamics to build financial models that make the best use of our leading data and analytics tools at PwC.
  
• Assisting in areas of business development, practice development and strategy.
  

Essential skills and experience

• Ability to deliver high-quality written work
  
• A commercial and technical understanding of valuation concepts and experience of applying these in practice
  
• Well organised and able to prioritise multiple client projects appropriately
  
• Proficient in Excel
  
• Strong analytical skills matched by an ability to think creatively
  
• Keen attention to detail, assimilating large amounts of commercial and financial information in a fast-paced transaction services environment while still being able to see the big picture
  
• Ability to work effectively in teams, sometimes to tight deadlines
  
• Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence when interacting with others