PwC Services Portugal (PSP) is a joint venture between PwC Luxembourg and PwC Portugal, serving as an integral extension of PwC Luxembourg.
Our growing team operates as an acceleration centre supporting PwC Luxembourg's clients.
Leveraging a unique pool of talented professionals based in Matosinhos, our operating model ensures scalability, consistency, and quality in service delivery by integrating seamlessly into PwC Luxembourg's operations and addressing talent attraction challenges sustainably.
PSP provides a range of services, including Assurance Audit (spanning all industries, with a particular focus on Real Estate and Private Equity), Broader Assurance Services, Tax (including Managed Services, Corporate Tax, VAT, and Accounting), and Advisory (specializing in Consulting, Regulatory and Deals & Strategy).
For this opportunity, your CV must be submitted in English.
Your Mission
A career in our Valuation and Modeling Advisory Services practice, within our Deals & Strategy team, will provide you the opportunity to support clients in understanding and quantifying the value of businesses and the implications of investment choices on value throughout the lifecycle of a business.
We provide comprehensive valuations for portfolios, businesses, intangibles, shares, and financial instruments.
Our services support regulatory requirements, facilitate decision-making, assist in transactions, and ensure compliance with legislation.
By blending technical expertise and strategic insights, we advise leading alternative investment managers, institutional investors, large corporations, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and private clients, consistently delivering exceptional results.
Our in-house experience enables us to assertively interact with the several stakeholders involved in the valuation process, including investment teams, internal risk and valuation specialist, external auditors, and other valuation professionals, as to adequately consider the elements of value creation and risk within our assessments.
Our Valuation and Modelling practice comprises a team of talented professionals from across the globe coming from diverse horizons including leading asset managers, corporate development teams, world largest consulting and audit firms and dedicated valuation boutiques.
They all share the same passion for delivering superior financial advisory to clients while producing insightful deliverables to answer clients' valuation and modeling needs.
Be a Part Of Our Team Where You Will
Carry out various assignments for valuation and modelling advisory across different industries and situations, including portfolio valuations, business valuations, intangible valuations, complex securities valuation, and ad hoc modelling engagements.
Prepare detailed financial modelling, business plans, financial analysis, and the application of a variety of valuation methodologies.
Assessing reasonableness of valuations and financial models prepared by others.
Assisting clients with their understanding of complex financial structures.
Applying generally accepted valuation principles, methodologies, and techniques in support of IPEV, IFRS, US GAAP and Lux GAAP.
Performing valuation analysis of financial instruments and structured products.
Creating independent financial models utilizing income or market approaches to estimate or assess the value of a business and the securities within its capital structure.
Analyzing complex ideas or proposals and build a range of meaningful recommendations.
Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder views to develop solutions and recommendations.
Use data and insights to inform conclusions and support decision-making.
Develop a point of view on key global trends, and how they impact clients.
Manage a variety of viewpoints to build consensus and create positive outcomes for all parties.
Simplify complex messages, highlighting and summarizing key points.
Deliver exceptional results for our clients.
Let's Talk About You.
If You Have/are...
Master's degree in finance/economics/accounting/engineering or similar.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with a perfect command of English (German and French are deemed as a strong asset, any other European language will be considered as valuable).
Professional experience of 2-5 years of ideally from two to four years with a relevant exposure to Valuation and Modeling, preferably in the valuation/modelling advisory team of a Big Four firm, professional services firm (e.G., Mazars, BDO, Grant Thornton) and/or valuation specialist advisor (e.G., BHB Partners, Stout, VRC, Houlihan Lokey, Alvarez & Marsal, Accuracy, Eight Advisory).
Candidates with a solid audit background in alternatives investments and/or in-house AIFM valuation function experience, would also be considered if they are proficient in English, German and French.
Preferably exposure to private capital alternative investments (e.G., private equity, infrastructure, venture capital, private debt).
Strong financial modelling skills in Microsoft Excel (i.E., being capable of building three-way models and respecting modelling best practices, such as never hard-coding numbers in a formula, nor using formulae such as VLOOKUP, INDIRECT or nested IFs).
Solid knowledge of financial statement analysis under IFRS, US GAAP and/or Lux GAAP.
Knowledge and experience working with option pricing models (Black & Scholes, Binomial trees, Montecarlo) and/or Purchase Price Allocations are deemed as valuable.
Good command of MS Power Point.
Achieved progress towards obtaining professional finance or accounting qualification (e.G., CVP, CFA, CAIA, FRM, CVA, ASA, CBV, ACCA, ACA, CPA, CA, AFM, CFM, FMVA) is a plus.
Highly organized, flexible, and able to manage several timelines
Detail-oriented, proactive, eager to learn and grow
...You are the candidate we are looking for