Business Modelling - Senior Associate / Manager

Business Modelling Senior Associate, Valuation Services

Alvarez & Marsal

London

Introduction

A&M established a presence in Europe over 16 years ago and our growth has been tenfold. We currently have offices across Europe servicing private equity, senior lenders, investors, corporates and leading law firms with a range of professional services including Restructuring & Turnaround, Performance Improvement, Transaction, Tax Advisory and, since 2014, Valuation Services. 

Our European Valuation Services business is headquartered in London and we provide a full suite of valuation services, recently extended to also offer business modelling with the recruitment of an experienced Director with a strong track record in this field.  As we see demand for this new service line ramp up, A&M is seeking to grow its presence in this market further and we are therefore looking for a highly skilled Business Modelling Senior Associate to join us in our London office.

As a founding member of the practice, the successful applicant may reasonably expect to benefit from attractive career progression opportunities, complemented by A&M’s highly competitive base pay package and bonus scheme and its entrepreneurial and stimulating working environment.

Responsibilities

Core

• Support the senior team with project delivery, primarily through the design, building and testing of leading-practice financial models incorporating the relevant operational, tax, accounting and financing principles;
• Prepare and lead client workshops, meetings and calls to assist in scoping and designing models, gather input data, review and validate calculations and hand over models to clients when they are complete;
• Support project teams in other service lines as and when required, through the application of business modelling (and occasionally analytics and other related) techniques to generate insights and influence clients to shape how they make their decisions, guiding them through and facilitating the decision-making process;

Additional

• Assist with business development activities including drafting proposals and pitch documents, researching potential clients and issues and organising client meetings and events, and where possible, referring opportunities from own network;
• Support the development of new capabilities and promote collective skill set development across the team through the development of templates, training courses and exercises, harvesting modules from previous models and proactively conducting relevant reading and research;
• Contribute to the continued growth of the team by referring candidates, interviewing and developing case studies, job descriptions and other supporting content;
• Support compliance aspects of taking on of new clients – although as a non-audit firm the applicable regulations are less stringent at A&M than in certain other environments;
• Contribute to the smooth and harmonious functioning of the team by assisting with organising formal and informal team events, attending such events and supporting other team admin activities.

Attributes

Core

• Bachelor’s degree from a leading university;
• Strong working knowledge of relevant accounting, corporate finance and tax principles;
• 5-6 years’ work experience, preferably in a business modeling role in a leading accounting or consulting firm, investment bank or boutique modelling firm;
• Excellent oral and written communications skills;
• Relentless and uncompromising attention to detail and quality;
• Resilient and able to function effectively under pressure while managing competing stakeholder demands;
• Self-starter with the drive to succeed in an entrepreneurial culture;
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment;

Desirable

• A relevant professional qualification such as ACA or CFA;
• Experience in business analytics tools such as Spotfire, Tableau or Microsoft BI is welcomed;
• Database experience (particularly SQL), ETL software (e.g., Alteryx) and ideally programming (particularly R and Python) preferred;
• Client management experience;
• Knowledge of one or more foreign languages such as French, German or Dutch.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s policy to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

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