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Practice and Role Overview:
Valuation Professional

Ankura’s Valuation and Transaction Disputes (VTD) is a practice within our Disputes & Economics group. We are a leader in supporting companies and their counsel navigate challenging and high stakes legal and regulatory matters, as well as complex tax, transaction, and financial reporting issues. Ankura’s VTD professionals are some of the world’s best and brightest subject matter experts with a strong track record and top-tier leadership position in the industry. Our testifying experts have delivered expert witness testimony on some of the most complex valuation, accounting, solvency, and damages matters in U.S. Tax Court, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, and U.S. District Court, as well as in state courts, arbitrations, mediations, and international settings.

Our team is built with highly experienced senior professionals who possess multi-disciplinary and diverse backgrounds and perspectives. We are driven to innovate, to stay ahead of the curve, and see opportunities where industries, technologies, and trends overlap. We provide empirically based analyses, backed up with evidence and data, and we place enormous value on collaborative lateral thinking to tackle problems and provide clarity and expertise to our clients.

We value companies, business interests, intangible assets, and illiquid and complex financial assets. We also perform forensic accounting analyses, work with debtors and creditors in restructuring transactions, perform solvency reports in contentious matters, prepare economic damages assessments, and provide testimony to government regulators.

Role and Responsibilities:
Ankura’s VTD practice is a diverse, tight-knit team of finance and accounting professionals. The individual will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with our senior consulting professionals (and directly with our testifying experts on a regular basis) on engagements across a broad range of industries and subject matters.

Associate or Senior Associate level will be determined through the interview process.

Responsibilities include:
Analyze historical financial information and cash flow projections

Aggregate, synthesize, and evaluate large data sets in Microsoft Excel and other analytical tools

Develop comprehensive, detailed valuation and other financial models

Conduct independent research into industry, market, and other factors relevant to the analysis, as well as research into technical valuation and accounting literature

Provide detailed review and analysis of large volumes of document production

Prepare clear, concise, and compelling written reports, memos, and presentations

We seek smart, driven people to join our team who have

Bachelor’s degree from a top-tier 4-year public or private college or university

1-4 years of experience

Strong aptitude for financial modeling and financial analysis

Dedication to taking personal ownership of work product and consistently meeting internal and external client deadlines and high-performance expectations

Strong intellectual curiosity and problem-solving skills with the ability to synthesize complex unstructured information rapidly and develop compelling insights and analysis for expert reports prepared for litigation, arbitrations, restructurings, fraudulent transfer matters, tax controversies, transaction disputes, and other high stakes matters

Proficiency in Microsoft product suite (particularly Microsoft Word and Excel)

Willingness to travel pending health and safety concerns (up to 10% - 20%)

Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

Preferred:
Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) or other advanced degree in accounting, finance, or economics and/or a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) / Accredited Member (AM) designation, or progressed towards, is strongly preferred

Desire to obtain an additional professional certification(s) and/or advanced degree(s)

What you can expect from Ankura

Competitive salary and benefits package

Ankura offers on-the-job training and internal and external training opportunities to further develop your technical capabilities

Dynamic career path

Be prepared to expand your network of clients and contribute to business development efforts

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Ankura is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where mutual respect and collaboration is paramount. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other legally protected status.