Valuations Analyst

A highly commercial and business facing opportunity at a growing multi-strategy asset manager and an ideal first move into industry for someone working in a professional services or advisory firm within valuations.

With a collegiate, supportive and refreshingly down to earth culture, this business has grown year on year since inception and over the last few years has been in-housing their valuations capabilities due to an increase in portfolio size across both equity and debt/credit investments.

The business can evidence a solid track record of internal mobility and progression, with the opportunity to gain promotion into roles across back, middle and front office longer term.

Working as part of a specialist team that’s highly embedded in with the investment teams, responsibilities will encompass:

• Support on quarterly (and occasional ad hoc) valuations of illiquid fixed income and equity asset investments
• Preparation of valuation reports
• Preliminary review and analysis of business plans and cash flow models
• Formulating and robustly defending valuation opinions
• Development and update of valuation models
• Collation of underlying financial data from investment managers, providing relevant challenge where necessary
• Management of valuation roll-forward process for equity and credit assets at times other than full valuation dates
• Performance of periodical deep dives into asset valuations
• Drafting of papers for submission to the scheme’s Fair Value Committee on both technical and non-technical matters
• Assist the Head of Investment Valuations with control and process improvements and provide ideas and thoughts as to how the department can continue to evolve and improve
• Communication of key judgements and conclusions to investment accounting function
• Documentation of procedures and controls, identifying and implementing process change requirements
• Preparation of committee reports
• Assisting with the review and challenge of externally performed property valuations
• Assisting external valuation advisers with the performance of the external valuation process

Your background is likely to be:

• Prior experience - roughly 3 years+ or equivalent - in a valuations role at a large global accounting or advisory firm or in industry for a fund or large corporate. Specific sector or industry experience isn’t essential.
• Extensive prior experience of drafting valuation reports
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Excellent level of Excel and financial modelling skills, working with integrated forecast models for large businesses
• Experience of dealing with external clients or influencing at senior level within an organisation

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.