Valuations & Modeling – Business Modeling Assistant Director [Saudi Arabia]

 

Business Modeling – Assistant Director

During your tenure as an Assistant Director in Business Modelling, you will demonstrate and develop

your capabilities in the following areas:

 Reviews outputs of financial analyses to guide client’s management to make decisions with

confidence

 Develops new and innovative approaches to analyzing data to help team draw meaningful

conclusions; champions the use of advanced visualization to extract insights from a data set

and presents findings in a clear, logical manner to client executives

 Resolves escalated scope, timeline, or resourcing issues and shapes team’s priorities to

address most urgent and relevant tasks

 Manages engagement financials to ensure proper invoicing, staff billing, and engagement

profitability

 Understands the larger ecosystem within which the client operates; uses to facilitate

discussions about potential solutions to the client’s most pressing deal issues

 Understands drivers of growth, profitability and cash flow as well as a client’s financial

statements and key performance measures

 Identifies relevant business trends, economic forces, and industry practices and can

confidently discuss with the client

 Builds personal brand and supports eminence building in chosen industry/sector

 Sets direction regarding the development and compliance of standards, guidelines and service

agreements

 Combines expertise in one stage of a transaction with a deep understanding of a particular

industry/sector and advises on integration points an critical focus areas

 Ensures the accuracy of the models, valuation analyses, reports, and audit support

documentation

 Reviews client’s existing financial model to ensure reliability by testing its mathematical

accuracy, confirming that its logic is consistent with the commercial drivers of the business,

and reviewing the reasonableness of the input assumptions

 Uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to deliver insights on goodwill implications in a

transaction

Leadership Capabilities:

 Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values.

 Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts,

develops and retains top talent and high performing teams

 Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by

leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and

borders

 Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain

buy-in and drive impact

 Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets

priorities to achieve objectives

 Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous

improvement

 Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and

appreciation of others

Qualifications:

• 8+ years or more experience in financial consulting (Financial Advisory/ Corporate Finance)

or Investment Banking/Merchant Banking, with at least 5 years’ experience delivering models

to third party clients in a professional services firm

• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop people and plan complete engagements along

with ensuring deliverables meet work plan specifications and deadlines.

• Proactive in quality assurance and ensuring deliverables meet the highest standards

• Proven history of business development and developing and maintaining client relationships

• Qualified accountant with one of the major international accountancy bodies

• Strong Interpersonal & Communication skills

• Motivated, dedicated, dynamic & hard worker

• Fluent in English with the ability to write and present in English

• Bilinguals (Arabic & English) preferred

 

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