Assistant Director, Real Estate Valuation

Deloitte LLP; Manchester, Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced candidate for a role in the Real Estate Advisory Valuation team. You will deliver strategic advice on Business Rates, interact with top-level clients, and contribute to innovative solutions. This opportunity is ideal for those with RICS qualifications and a passion for leadership in a collaborative environment. Join to develop your business consulting skills and grow your career while working on complex real estate challenges.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Career development opportunities

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience delivering strategic advice for Business Rates.
• Ability to analyze data and provide actionable insights.
• Familiarity with SDLT and CGT.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic business rates advice to clients.
• Engage in negotiations with Valuation Office Agency.
• Identify innovative opportunities in the Business Rates market.

Skills

Analytical skills

Effective communication

Client management

Team leadership

Education

RICS Qualification

Tools

Business Rates software

Job description

This is your opportunity to join Deloitte Real Estate Advisory - a team that blends consulting, finance, construction, digital and property skills to address the most complex challenges in real estate and infrastructure.

Within Deloitte Real Estate Advisory is our well-established and growing Valuation team. We are a unique Valuation practice in the market, blending the core services and skills associated with the valuation profession with the strategic insight and perspectives which are the bedrock of Deloitte.

As one of the largest and most respected integrated real estate advisory teams in the UK, the team includes chartered surveyors, cost consultants, project managers, engineers, technology specialists and accountants.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

We are currently looking for an ambitious professional with experience in delivering Business Rates and wider Tax Valuation advice to join our Valuation, Assurance & Professional Advisory team. Working at a senior level you will advise on a wide range of projects for both our public and private sector clients, who occupy and invest in a vast array of real estate and infrastructure. This is an exciting role offering the opportunity to the right candidate to leverage an established and well regarded platform to grow a truly market‑leading and differentiated business delivering insightful results to clients. The right candidate will have a fastidious eye for detail, enjoy developing innovative solutions for clients and also be keen to contribute to the team’s strategy and nurturing of our talent. In turn, working here will give you the chance to further develop your business consulting skills, build on your existing professional and industry expertise and take on leadership of a critically important area of business.

Role

This broad‑ranging role can be honed to best use the skills of the right applicant. Expectations of the role will include:

• Delivering strategic business rates advice, engaging as required in negotiations with the Valuation Office Agency, and liaising with client stakeholders.
• Identifying innovative opportunities in the Business Rates market to deliver advice, assurance and savings.
• Interacting with the breadth of Deloitte’s various disciplines, including our Tax and Legal, and M&A businesses, contributing strategic real estate tax valuation advice including Business Rates as well as other areas of taxation such as SDLT and CGT.
• Identifying new trends and supporting the development of innovative valuation‑related solutions across the spectrum of Real Assets.
• Learning from, and liaising with, colleagues from different professional disciplines to deliver the most informed solutions for our clients; and
• Contributing to continued development of Deloitte’s market profile.

We are looking for people who are comfortable dealing with clients at senior management and leadership levels with ranging levels of experience in real estate. This will therefore require someone who is an excellent communicator and is able to articulate complex situations and messaging into clear advice and insight.

Three key reasons this presents an excellent opportunity for successful applicants

• 1. You will work with the biggest clients across the UK and beyond.
• 2. You will engage at the very top of the organisation.
• 3. You will be part of a high‑performing team with the opportunities to develop your career in a large professional services firm and the opportunities that can provide.

We work with the world’s largest and most influential organisations. Our clients span industries and sectors, but include the world’s biggest banks and financial services institutions, multi‑national consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and telecoms, and the public sector, including central and local government, agencies and arms‑length bodies with the largest and most complex estates.

The breadth, complexity and strategic importance of our clients’ challenges mean we work with colleagues from across Deloitte, and engage with the senior leadership in our clients’ organisations.

We take personal development seriously, offering a comprehensive range of learning and development opportunities within a stretching yet highly supportive environment. Our appraisal process is structured, transparent and interactive so you will receive continuous training and ongoing, supportive feedback to achieve the goals that you set yourself. You will be part of an environment where excellent client service, creativity, hard work and ambition are rewarded.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Key required skills

• You can collect and analyse data from appropriate sources to extract insights and develop informed recommendations that shape or support project objectives.
• You can deliver effective presentations and reports to convey clear messaging and insights to clients and stakeholders.
• You are interested and aware of trends in the market that impact our clients.
• And experience in building, developing and leading diverse, effective teams, fostering an environment of learning, inclusion and support.

Key required experience

• RICS Qualified
• Business Rates‑delivering strategic advice, navigating the Check, Challenge, Appeal process; valuation of specialist and trading properties, and negotiations.
• Use of Business Rates related software and databases.
• Delivery of wider real estate valuation tax‑related advice such as SDLT and CGT.
• Team leadership including development and articulation of strategy, talent management and engagement financials.

Connect to your business – Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory

In an ever‑evolving world, there are no certainties in business. Our teams help clients to navigate risks, process major transactions and deliver transformational change that will future‑proof their business. Join us to make a positive difference.

Infrastructure and Real Estate

Our Infrastructure and Real Estate team supports both public and private sector clients on complex infrastructure, real estate, and capital projects. Typical engagements include urban regeneration, transport, energy and renewables, and occupier advisory to central government and large corporate companies.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in London or Manchester with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face‑to‑face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make a kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world‑class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose‑driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers