Senior Associate - Real Estate Value Advisory

Location: Saint Peter Port

Line of Service

Industry/Sector

FS X-Sector

Specialism

Assurance

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

At PwC, our people in audit and assurance focus on providing independent and objective assessments of financial statements, internal controls, and other assurable information enhancing the credibility and reliability of this information with a variety of stakeholders. They evaluate compliance with regulations including assessing governance and risk management processes and related controls.

In financial statement audit at PwC, you will focus on obtaining reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes the auditor’s opinion.

Role: Real Estate Value Advisory Senior Associate

Location: Guernsey

Line of Service: External Audit

Grade: Senior Associate

Contracted Hours per Week: 37.5

PwC Channel Islands Overview

At PwC CI, we help you build, accelerate, and sustain momentum in a world that never stops moving. With our tech-forward and people-empowered network, we provide expert assurance, tax and advisory services to turn challenges into opportunities. Leveraging deep expertise and advanced capabilities, we ensure you’re ready for any future, helping you act boldly and achieve real results.

Job Summary

PwC Channel Islands is expanding a real estate centre of excellence of Chartered Surveyors, RICS Registered Valuers and real estate industry specialists, who, working in conjunction with our network of PwC member firms, support a wide range of local and international clients on a range of real estate matters. Our clients include property companies, institutional investors and real estate fund managers, government offices, private equity houses and family offices.

The breadth and diversity of our clients' real estate exposure, across sectors, geographies and investment strategies, in an ever-changing market environment, requires us to be agile, commercially minded and forward looking as we help them navigate complexity and make informed decisions.

High-quality real estate valuation advice is at the forefront of critical role in supporting informed decision making by management teams, boards and investors, helping them understand, create, sustain, realise and protect value, while meeting the highest standards of risk management and quality.

We are looking to recruit a newly RICS qualified / part qualified real estate valuer or alternatively qualified / part qualified real estate industry specialist to join our growing team, contributing to the growth of our real estate centre of excellence.

The role will provide you with an opportunity to work as part of our experienced Real Estate Value Advisory team on a range of client engagements and with a number of other teams. Alongside this, we would expect that a significant proportion of your time will be dedicated to supporting our Audit practice, critically assessing valuation methodologies and assumptions as part of the audit of our clients’ financial statements.

This is an exciting time to join our highly successful and growing Real Estate business, providing the opportunity to grow and develop your network and experience.

Responsibilities

You will be active across all areas of our work, working closely with clients, investors, their advisers and our Audit teams to deliver high-quality valuation assurance and advisory services.

Responsibilities include

Reviewing the real estate asset valuations of a wide range of leased and operational commercial, residential and development real estate assets, typically situated across UK and European markets, for audit purposes. This role will be performed as part of the wider team, under the supervision of a senior team member (Manager / Senior Manager / Director (team leader).

Developing knowledge of real estate market trends and technical valuation approaches across real estate sectors and geographies, whilst embracing opportunities to gain exposure to diverse client situations and perspectives.

Supporting the preparation of real estate valuations and sector specialist advice; typically as part of tax or business valuations, transactional due diligence, business recovery / restructuring or wider real estate advisory assignments. •

Working collaboratively and building networks with peers in PwC network firms, including UK, Middle East and Ireland.

Preparing clear, concise and impactful reports, presentations and client deliverables; translating complex real estate markets and technical valuation matters into practical insights for clients, investors, audit teams and other stakeholders.

Working closely with Managers, Senior Managers and the Director (team leader) within the Real Estate Value Advisory team, contributing to the delivery of complex assignments while continuing to develop your technical, commercial and leadership skills.

Supporting business development activities, including identifying opportunities, preparing proposals and pitch materials, attending client meetings and presentations, and contributing to the growth of our market-leading real estate practice.

Supporting the operations / management of engagements, including project planning, risk and acceptance procedures, budgeting, resource management, quality control and client relationship management.

Direct Reports

This role reports to

Manager, Senior Manager, Director, Partner

There are no direct reports into this role.

Qualifications & Certifications

RICS qualified, working towards RICS qualification, or qualified or working towards another relevant professional qualification in real estate, valuation, finance or a related discipline.

Skills & Experience Required

Essential skills

• Some / all of the following skills are required for this role:
• Good knowledge of UK / European commercial real estate markets.
• Good technical knowledge and practical experience of commercial real estate valuation.
• Working knowledge and application of Real Estate valuations and related software e.g. Argus Enterprise, Argus Developer, MRI.
• Willingness to learn and take responsibility.
• Strong interpersonal skills and comfortable communicating at all levels.
• Ability to work effectively in teams, on occasion to tight deadlines.
• Proven ability to deliver high-quality written work.
• Strong analytical skills but tempered with an ability to think laterally.
• Good MS Excel (some Real Estate cashflow modelling experience is preferable).
• Strong attention to detail, good project and time management skills.
• Professional verbal and written English.

Desirable skills

• Technical knowledge of development asset valuation.
• Technical knowledge of operating asset valuation (e.g. hotels, multi / single family residential, student accommodation).
• Technical knowledge and / or practical experience of financial reporting.
• Travel may be required for this role.

The skills we look for in our people

All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, Evolved PwC Professional.

The Evolved PwC Professional focuses on two core behaviours: Trusted Leadership and Distinctive outcomes. Trusted Leadership is underpinned by core behaviours that Inspire, Empower and Evolve, and Distinctive outcomes is underpinned by behaviours that Champion, Build and Deliver.

Diversity

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool as well as those who reflect the diverse nature of our society. We aim to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their unique strengths. Creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business.https://pwc.to/2vY6KZm

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required

Degrees/Field of Study preferred

Certifications (if blank, certifications not specified)

Required Skills

Optional Skills

Accepting Feedback, Accepting Feedback, Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards, Accounting Policies, Active Listening, AI Fluency, AI-Human Collaboration, Analytical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence (AI) Platform, Auditing, Auditing Methodologies, Client Management, Communication, Compliance Auditing, Complying With Regulations, Creativity, Data Analysis and Interpretation, Data Ingestion, Data Modeling, Data Quality, Data Security, Data Transformation, Data Visualization, Digital Tooling, Embracing Change {+ 27 more}

Desired Languages (If blank, desired languages not specified)

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Government Clearance Required?

Yes

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