Senior Associate - Alternative Valuation Services

About the role

PwC Luxembourg is hiring a Senior Associate for its Alternative Valuation Services within the Valuation & Modelling Services practice. The team advises alternative investment managers, institutional investors, infrastructure funds, private equity sponsors, family offices, sovereign wealth funds and multinational corporations on complex valuation and modelling matters, and also supports valuation matters across audit engagements.

Key responsibilities

• Carry out valuation and modelling assignments such as portfolio, business and intangible valuations, complex securities valuation and ad hoc modelling
• Prepare financial models, business plans, financial analysis and apply valuation methodologies
• Assess the reasonableness of valuations and models prepared by others
• Help clients understand complex financial structures
• Apply valuation principles in support of IPEV, IFRS, US GAAP and Lux GAAP
• Analyse financial instruments, structured products and complex capital structures
• Build independent models using income, market and option-based approaches
• Develop recommendations, communicate technical concepts clearly and produce client deliverables

Required profile

• Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related field
• 2-5 years of experience in valuation and modelling, preferably in a Big Four, professional services or specialist advisory firm
• Exposure to private capital alternative investments (private equity, infrastructure, venture capital, private debt)
• Strong English; German and French are strong assets
• Progressing toward a professional finance or accounting qualification (e.g. CFA, ACCA, CPA)

Required skills

• Financial modelling in Microsoft Excel, including three-way models
• Financial statement analysis under IFRS, US GAAP and/or Lux GAAP
• Option pricing models and/or purchase price allocations (valued)
• High-quality presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint