Vice President - SaT - National - SaT - TCF - Valuation, Model & Econom - New Delhi

Requisition Id : 1496356

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The Opportunity: Vice President-National-SaT-SaT - TCF - Valuation, Model & Econom

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SaT - TCF - Valuation, Model & Econom : 

Strategy and Transactions enables clients to reimagine ecosystems, reshape portfolios and reinvent for a better future. Using our Capital Agenda framework, we work with clients to find answers to today's toughest strategic, financial, operational and commercial questions. We help corporates, private equity, governments, sovereign wealth funds, private and family businesses, and educational institutions with their key financial issues. From portfolio review and capital allocation processes to financial planning analytics and decision support, we have the people, analytics and tools to better allocate capital. Our team helps clients manage their risk/return trade-offs to support them with better decision-making around financing and capital efficiency.

Whether clients are preserving, optimizing, raising or investing, our Connected Capital Solutions (CCS) are our five go-to-market offerings that help drive competitive advantage and increased returns through improved decision-making. The CCS include Strategy, Corporate Finance, Buy and Integrate, Sell and Separate and Reshaping Results, and are underpinned by our Connected Capital Technologies.

Our key focus areas are - Investment Banking Advisory, Valuations, Modeling and Economics, Transaction Diligence,  Restructuring and Turnaround Services, Project Finance and infrastructure, EY Parthenon - Strategy and EY Parthenon - Execution.

Your key responsibilities

Technical Excellence
The role of a Sr. Manager in Business Modelling would include providing support to and minimizing the active involvement of the engagement leader on a Business modelling assignment. His / Her role would be to, under leadership of engagement leader, interact with clients, network actively and participate in business development to improve visibility of the Business modelling practice amidst internal stakeholders and external clients. The role would include:

Technical expertise

Preparation of a detailed financial model from scratch, in line with global modelling best practices and within a tight time frame

Develop a logical, transparent and understandable model structure capturing all of the client requirements

Suggest and incorporate modelling aspects relevant to the client engagement and/or sector that would provide greater insights to the client

Leverage industry and domain experts within the Firm for industry issues and technical aspects to deliver a superior quality model to the client that is accurate, free of any material errors and easy to understand

Undertake thorough quality checks on the model before it is delivered to the client

Conduct trainings/workshops for client personnel on use of the model and/or put together a model user manual for the client to ensure effective handover

Analyzing business plans prepared in MS Excel, identify issues which might impact the outputs of the model and evaluate their materiality on model outputs

Critically analyze the model and identify not just coding and linkage issues but commercial, analytical and strategic matters that the client team should consider in the model

Quantify the impact of errors/commissions/oversight observed in the model, if required

Exhibit strong communication and report-writing skills to explain and qualify the issues identified

Be assertive to ensure that client incorporates or otherwise adequately addresses all material issues identified before issuing final sign-off

Experience of model builds and model reviews for various purposes. Indicative list outlined below:

Transaction

Equity and debt transactions

Buy-side and sell-side transactions

Strategic, financial (including specific investment vehicles such as SPVs , JV, InvITs, REiTs)

Bid advisory

Government as well as private sector bids

Decision support models for operational monitoring and/or internal management analysis

MIS models

Budget and variance analysis models

Covenant testing models

Benchmarking and market sizing models

Restructuring models

Organizational restructuring

Financial restructuring

Toolkits and template models for day-to-day organizational use

Deep understanding of certain key sectors requiring complex modelling such as

Infrastructure

Power & utilities (including renewable power)

Transportation (roads and highways, airports, railways, ports, shipping)

Waste management and urban infrastructure

Engineering, procurement and construction

Real estate (residential, commercial, retail, hospitality)

Oil & gas (upstream/downstream, pipeline infrastructure)

Telecom and telecom infrastructure

Mining

High-level understanding of other major sectors such pharmaceuticals, life sciences and health care, manufacturing and industrial products, technology

Experience of using VBA with Excel, i.e., Macros, User forms, Add-ins etc.

High level understanding of key accounting and taxation concepts that impact most financial models and that would aid in having intelligent client conversations

Ability to identify where domain experts need to be involved or local teams (in case of international clients) need to be consulted

Knowledge and ability to leverage data visualization and analytics tools on engagements where they can add value to client (tools such as Spotfire, Tableau, PowerBI, Power Pivot, Social media analytics, etc)

Regularly deliver be-spoke trainings on Financial Modelling and Valuation to various corporate organizations, students, educational institutions and finance professionals.

Develop and customize content to make it relevant to the target audience

Devise assignments and assessments to provide the participants with practice material ad evaluate learning

Network with participating professionals and leverage any business opportunities that arise

Respond to participant queries in a timely manner

2.      Lead in client service delivery

Independently lead and coordinate the planning and management of engagements including:

Defining the scope of work and ensuring clear and water-tight scoping of the engagement

Pricing and fee negotiation in consultation with senior partners and client account leaders

Manage and ensure timely billing and recovery

Identifying opportunities to cross-sell services across EY and maximizing fee opportunities for the Firm

Monitor effective execution of the work on a multiple client base and assume independent responsibility on engagement management

Develop rapport with middle to senior levels at Client's organization

Participate in advising clients on strategic issues and understanding client's needs – work as a holistic business advisor to the client

Risk Management

Ensure compliance with risk management strategies, plans and activities

Understand the risk management policies at the Firm and bring to focus risk issues on client assignments in a timely manner

Handle straightforward QRM and independence matters on engagements by seeking the necessary approvals and adhering to Firm requirements

Manage sensitive and high level risk issues and escalate matters to senior partners in a timely manner

Proactively resolve (with Partner support) risk issues in delivering service to clients

Develop and implement risk management / mitigation strategies, plans and activities in consultation with seniors / partners / QRM team

4.      People Management

Build a strong and cohesive team and be a strong role model, mentor and coach

Train the team effectively to make them independent and aware of EY polices, best practices and role expectations

Effectively manage resourcing on engagements by collaborating within the team and ensuring the right person for the right job

Assist in resolving people issues, if any, in a timely, rational, fair and calm manner

Assist in recruiting activities for the business

Knowledge Management

Champion knowledge sharing efforts, review and continually improve processes so that the team and firm capture and leverage knowledge

6.      Business Development, Networking & Identification of opportunities:

Create and manage strong independent relationships with clients at middle to senior positions with minimal partner involvement

Identify and act promptly on referrals

Work towards expanding client base with new wins and conversions (both existing and new clients) by building strong external networks and communicating with the partner on opportunities in a timely manner

Build broad networks within the firm locally and internationally

Maintain up-to-date repository of sector-wise, service-wise credentials and CVs

Periodically develop or participate in putting together thought leadership content on matters relevant to the business and help in periodic refresh of the marketing collateral for the practice

Support the leadership and participate in building the brand of the Firm and the VME practice

Qualification
8+ years of relevant post qualification experience
Strong Financial modeling skills backed by project experience
Analytical skills and attention to detail
Conversant with Excel, Word, PowerPoint and various data modelling, coding and analytics tools such as VBA, SQL, Spotfire, Tableau, Power BI, etc.
Business development
Client relationship management
Strong market network and relationship building skills
High initiative and drive
Maturity and ability to handle pressure
Positive attitude and high commitment
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Professional appearance and poise
High team orientation
Project / time management
Leadership skills
Team management and development
Experience

8+ years of relevant post qualification experience
Strong Financial modeling skills backed by project experience

What we look for

People with the ability to work in a collaborative manner to provide services across multiple client departments while following the commercial and legal requirements. You will need a practical approach to solving issues and complex problems with the ability to deliver insightful and practical solutions. We look for people who are agile, curious, mindful and able to sustain postivie energy, while being adaptable and creative in their approach. 

What we offer

With more than 200,000 clients, 300,000 people globally and 33,000 people in India, EY has become the strongest brand and the most attractive employer in our field, with market-leading growth over compete. Our people work side-by-side with market-leading entrepreneurs, game- changers, disruptors and visionaries. As an organisation, we are investing more time, technology and money, than ever before in skills and learning for our people. At EY, you will have a personalized Career Journey and also the chance to tap into the resources of our career frameworks to better know about your roles, skills and opportunities.

EY is equally committed to being an inclusive employer and we strive to achieve the right balance for our people - enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing our people to build their career as well as focus on their wellbeing.

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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