Associate - Valuation and Financial Analysis

Acuity Analytics; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Analytics in Gurugram, Haryana, seeks a valuation professional to identify comps, perform investment valuations, and support diligence across PE and M&A projects.

You will analyze enterprise value, capital structure, and EBITDA adjustments, building robust models and presenting findings to senior management and lenders.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, transaction advisory or valuation.
• Strong knowledge of financial statements, enterprise value, equity value, and valuation methodologies.
• Experience with EBITDA normalization and adjustments.
• Comparable company analysis and precedent transaction analysis.
• Mark-to-market or fair-value analysis.
• Financial modeling and sensitivity analysis.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Excellent analytical, research, writing and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and select relevant public-company comparables based on business model, industry, size, geography.
• Perform valuation analyses for new investments, existing portfolio companies, add-on acquisitions, divestitures.
• Assess enterprise value, equity value, net debt, capital structure, and ownership positions. Analyze movements across periods and value creation/d destruction drivers.
• Prepare valuation materials for investment committees, valuation committees, auditors, lenders, and senior management.
• Analyze reported EBITDA and identify adjustments for valuation and transaction purposes. Distinguish sustainable EBITDA from adjustments.
• Reconcile management-adjusted EBITDA to reported EBITDA and ensure consistency with transaction documents.
• Support quality-of-earnings analyses and coordinate with third-party accounting and diligence advisors.
• Prepare trading comparable company tables and valuation range analyses. Evaluate relevance and limitations of comparables.
• Monitor market multiples and industry valuation trends.
• Research and analyze mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other relevant transactions.

Skills

Valuation analysis

Financial modeling

EBITDA normalization

Comparable company analysis

Precedent transaction analysis

Sensitivity analysis

Analytical writing

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance/Accounting/Economics/Business

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Identify and select relevant public-company comparables based on business model, industry, size, geography


• Perform valuation analyses for new investments, existing portfolio companies, add-on acquisitions, divestitures


• Assess


• enterprise value, equity value, net debt, capital structure, and ownership positions.Analyze valuation movements across reporting periods and identify key value-creation or value-destruction dri


• Prepare valuation materials for investment committees, valuation committees, auditors, lenders, and senior man


• Analyze reported EBITDA and identify appropriate adjustments for valuation and


• transaction purposes.Distinguish between sustainable, recurring EBITDA and adjustments that may not be supportable.


• Reconcile management-adjusted EBITDA to reported EBITDA and ensure consistency with transaction documen


• Support quality-of-earnings analyses and coordinate with third-party accounting and diligence advisors.


• Prepare


• trading comparable company tables and valuation range analyses.Evaluate the relevance and limitations of selected comparables.


• Monitor market multiples and industry valuation trends.


• Research and analyze mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other relevant transactions.

Preferred candidate profile

• Bachelors degree/ Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.


• Approximately


• 2-4 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, transaction advisory, valuation Strong knowledge of financial statements, enterprise value, equity value, and valuation methodologies.


• Demonstrated


• experience with:EBITDA normalization and adjustments


• Comparable company analysis


• Precedent transaction analysis


• Mark-to-market or fair-value analysis


• Financial modeling and sensitivity analysis


• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and strong PowerPoint capabilities.


• Excellent


• analytical, research, writing, and presentation skills.Ability to interpret complex financial and operational information.


• Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines.