IN-Manager_Financial Instruments Valuations_Transaction Services _Advisory_ Mumbai

Price Waterhouse Cooper LLP; Mumbai; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Price Waterhouse Cooper LLP in India seeks a Manager for the Valuation Advisory practice, focusing on financial instruments, derivatives and complex securities. Lead client engagements across financial reporting, regulatory and audit-support needs.

Role involves building valuation models, documenting methodologies and coaching junior staff, with clear communication to senior stakeholders. CA/MBA with 5–7 years’ experience preferred.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in financial valuations.
• CA / MBA with Chartered Accountant Diploma.
• Financial modeling in Excel expertise.

Responsibilities

• Lead valuation engagements for financial instruments from scoping to delivery.
• Build and review valuation models and develop defensible conclusions.
• Prepare audit-ready valuation reports and working papers.
• Coach junior team members and communicate valuation matters to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Financial Instruments Valuations

Financial Modeling in Excel

Alteryx

Education

CA / MBA

Chartered Accountant Diploma

Tools

Alteryx

Job description

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in deals focus on providing strategic advice and support to clients in areas such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and restructuring. They help clients navigate complex transactions and maximise value in their business deals. In deal valuation at PwC, you will focus on providing analysis and valuation services for mergers, acquisitions, and other financial transactions. You will help clients make informed decisions by assessing the worth and potential risks of various deals.

*Why PWC

At PwC, you will be part of a vibrant community of solvers that leads with trust and creates distinctive outcomes forour clients and communities. This purpose-led and values-driven work, powered by technology in an environment that drives innovation, will enable you to make a tangible impact in the real world. We reward your contributions, support your wellbeing, and offer inclusive benefits, flexibility programmes and mentorship that will help you thrive in work and life. Together, we grow, learn, care, collaborate, and create a future of infinite experiences foreach other. Learn more about us.

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Job Description & Summary

We are looking for a Manager to join the Valuation Advisory practice, specializing in the valuation of financial instruments, derivatives and complex securities. The role will involve leading client engagements across financial reporting, transactions, regulatory and audit-support requirements. The candidate will independently manage valuation engagements for financial instruments, build and review valuation models, develop defensible valuation conclusions, prepare high-quality documentation, manage client and auditor discussions, and coach junior team members. The role requires strong technical valuation knowledge, quantitative modelling ability, commercial judgment and the ability to communicate complex valuation matters clearly to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Engagement Management and Client Delivery

• Lead financial instruments valuation engagements from scoping to final delivery, including work planning, data requests, model development/review, documentation, quality control and timeline management.
• Act as the day-to-day point of contact for clients, auditors and internal stakeholders on valuation matters.
• Interact with clients, auditors, regulators and internal stakeholders on valuation methodologies, assumptions and conclusions.
• Present valuation methodologies, assumptions, sensitivities and conclusions clearly to client management, audit teams and other reviewers.
• Manage multiple engagements simultaneously while ensuring high-quality delivery, risk management and adherence to professional standards.
• Identify key valuation issues early, elevate appropriately, and provide practical solutions to clients.

2. Financial Instruments and Complex Securities Valuation

Perform and review valuations of a wide range of financial instruments and complex securities, including:

• Derivatives such as swaps, forwards, futures, options, structured options and embedded derivatives, vanilla & exotic derivatives.
• Fixed income and structured debt instruments, including NCDs, convertible debt, CCDs, optionally convertible instruments, contingent debt and hybrid instruments.
• Equity-linked and private-company securities such as CCPS, preference shares, warrants, SAFE notes, convertible instruments and earn-out arrangements.
• Employee and management incentive instruments such as ESOPs, RSUs, SARs, PSUs and management incentive plans.
• Contingent consideration, put/call arrangements, guarantees and other transaction-linked instruments.
• Structured products and complex capital structures, where applicable.

3. Advanced Modelling and Quantitative Analysis

Build, review and validate valuation models using methodologies such as:

• Black-Scholes option pricing
• Binomial / trinomial lattice models
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Option Pricing Method and OPM Backsolve
• PWERM and scenario-based methods
• Discounted cash flow and yield-based approaches
• Waterfall and equity allocation models
• CVA / DVA and credit-risk adjustments

• Estimate and benchmark valuation inputs such as volatility, correlation, risk-free rates, credit spreads, discount rates, DLOM, expected term, time to liquidity and market-participant assumptions.
• Conduct volatility computation/ calibration using historical and implied volatility, guideline public company data and transaction data.
• Perform sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis and reasonableness checks to support valuation conclusions.
• Review third-party, client-prepared and internal valuation models for formula integrity, methodology, assumptions, controls and output reasonableness.

4. Financial Reporting, Accounting and Audit Support

• Support valuations for financial reporting under applicable standards such as Ind AS, IFRS and US GAAP.
• Prepare audit-ready valuation reports, memos and working papers that clearly document methodology, assumptions, source data and conclusions.
• Respond to auditor review comments and support clients through audit queries.
• Apply fair-value measurement principles and financial instrument accounting concepts in valuation analysis.
• Support hedge accounting, treasury advisory and financial risk valuation assignments where relevant.

5. Capital Structure and Waterfall Analysis

• Analyse complex capital structures and shareholder rights, including liquidation preferences, conversion rights, anti-dilution provisions, participation rights, dividend rights and exit waterfalls.
• Perform equity allocation across share classes and instruments for transaction, financial reporting and tax-related valuation purposes.
• Interpret transaction documents, shareholder agreements, debenture terms, ESOP plans and other legal documents from a valuation perspective.

6. Team Leadership and Practice Development

• Guide, review and coach junior team members on technical modelling, valuation methodology, documentation and client communication.
• Conduct internal trainings on financial instruments, option-pricing models, valuation standards and quality expectations.
• Support onboarding of new team members and contribute to building team capabilities.
• Assist senior leadership in preparing proposals, credentials, thought pieces and client presentations.
• Contribute to practice development, process improvement, model templates and automation initiatives.

Mandatory skill sets

• Financial Instruments Valuations

Preferred skill sets

• Financial Instruments Valuations

Years of experience required

5-7 years

Education qualification

CA / MBA

Education

(if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified) Degrees/Field of Study required: Chartered Accountant Diploma. Degrees/Field of Study preferred:

Certifications

(if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Financial Modeling in Excel

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, AI Interaction, Alteryx (Automation Platform), Analytical Thinking, Asset Valuation, Balance Sheet Analysis, Business Valuations, Business Value Analysis, Capital Modeling, Coaching and Feedback, Communication, Corporate Finance, Creativity, Deal Structures, Derivative Valuation, Digital Tooling, Disputed / Distressed Valuation, Embracing Change, Emotional Regulation, Empathy, Financial Advising {+ 45 more}

Desired Languages

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