Director​/Senior Director, Transaction Advisory Services – Financial Services Valuation

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Practice Overview:

Clients depend upon Ankura’s professionals to provide insightful and thorough valuations. Ankura offers a full range of services to clients who depend on us to provide insightful and thorough valuations that enable them to make informed business decisions. Our Financial Services professionals are experienced in many facets of valuation and are skilled at providing expert testimony, as well as defending our valuation before various regulatory bodies and the Internal Revenue Service.

Role Overview :

We can hire at either the Director or Senior Director level. This will be determined throughout the evaluation process based on candidate experience and qualifications. This hybrid-based role is ideally based in Chicago, but other locations will be considered. We are seeking Valuation professionals with Bank valuation experience for financial reporting purposes. Specifically experience valuing:

Loan portfolios

Customer relationship intangibles

Core deposit intangibles

Financial instruments

Responsibilities:

Our professionals are experienced in utilizing a variety of valuation standards, approaches and methodologies including:

Standards of value including fair market value, fair value, intrinsic value, and investment value

Responsible for managing and developing a staff

Oversight of on going projects and client relationships

Premises of value including going concern, fair market, and liquidation

Valuation approaches and methodologies including:

Market approach: guideline company method, merger and acquisition (transaction) method, market pricing for services, compensation

Sales comparison approach; utilizes recent transactions, selection of appropriate units of comparison

Income approach: discounted cash flow method, capitalization of earnings method, etc.

Asset approach: discrete/collective revaluation of assets and liabilities

Cost approach: estimation of costs to replicate a service or asset

Financial statement analysis including ratio, common-sized, and trend analyses

Discount/capitalization rates including buildup method, capital asset pricing model, weighted average cost of capital, and other quantitative approaches

Minority interest discounts/control premiums

Discounts for lack of marketability including restricted stock studies, pre-IPO studies, and other quantitative methods

Intangible asset valuations, entity valuation issues regarding C-corporations, S-corporations, partnerships, sole proprietor ships

Requirements:

Minimum of 5 years of experience with direct experience in performing bank valuations for financial reporting purposes. This experience will include valuing loan portfolios, core deposit intangibles and customer relationship intangibles

Undergraduate degree required, emphasis in Finance, Accounting or Economics preferred

Valuation experience in other segments of financial services such as: insurance brokerage, specialty finance and mortgage banking a plus Progress towards achievement of ASA, CVA, CPA, and/or CFA designation is a plus Willingness to travel as needed (less than 25%)Must be authorized to work in the United States now and in the future without sponsorship.#LI-Hybrid#LI-MJ1

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in California, Colorado, New York or other states with relevant pay transparency laws, Ankura is required to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the said markets and considers a broad range of factors including but not limited to skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs.

The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. The range does not include additional benefits outside of salary. At Ankura, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each role.

A reasonable estimate of the current base pay range is between $85,000 to…