Senior Private Equity Valuation Specialist

Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

Employment Type: Full-Time

Work Arrangement: 100% Remote — Work From Home

Level: Senior

We are seeking an experienced Senior Private Equity Valuation Specialist to oversee and support the valuation of private equity investments, portfolio companies, and alternative investment assets. The successful candidate will perform detailed financial analysis, review valuation models, assess investment performance, and ensure that valuation methodologies are consistent with applicable accounting standards and established valuation policies.

This fully remote role requires strong expertise in private equity valuation, financial modelling, investment analysis, and fair value assessment. You will collaborate with investment teams, fund administrators, auditors, external valuation specialists, and senior stakeholders to support accurate, transparent, and well-documented investment valuations.

• Conduct and review valuations of private equity investments, portfolio companies, and alternative investment assets.
• Apply appropriate valuation methodologies, including discounted cash flow (DCF), comparable company analysis, precedent transactions, and market-based approaches.
• Develop, review, and maintain financial valuation models for private equity portfolios.
• Analyze historical financial performance, projected cash flows, revenue growth, profitability, and operating assumptions.
• Assess enterprise value, equity value, capital structures, debt obligations, and other relevant financial adjustments.
• Review investment performance and assess changes in portfolio company valuations over reporting periods.
• Evaluate valuation assumptions, discount rates, terminal values, market multiples, and other key model inputs.
• Assess the impact of market conditions, industry developments, and company-specific risks on investment valuations.
• Review financial statements, management accounts, business plans, budgets, and forecasts supplied by portfolio companies.
• Support the valuation of minority investments, majority-owned businesses, growth equity positions, and complex capital structures.
• Analyze comparable companies and relevant market transactions to support valuation conclusions.
• Review impairment indicators and assess potential changes in the recoverable value of investments.
• Coordinate valuation information requests with portfolio company management and investment professionals.
• Prepare valuation reports, investment analysis summaries, sensitivity analyses, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain valuation records, model assumptions, source data, and audit trails.
• Support quarterly, semi-annual, and annual fund valuation cycles.
• Review valuation reports prepared by external valuation firms and assess the reasonableness of their methodologies and conclusions.
• Coordinate with fund administrators and finance teams to ensure valuation outputs are accurately reflected in fund NAV calculations.
• Support internal and external audits by providing valuation models, financial evidence, and methodological explanations.
• Monitor changes in valuation standards, market practices, and relevant accounting guidance.
• Identify valuation risks, methodological inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve valuation governance.
• Recommend enhancements to valuation models, review procedures, and reporting controls.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Investment Management, or a related discipline. A master's degree is an advantage.
• Significant experience in private equity valuation, investment analysis, corporate finance, financial modelling, or fund valuation.
• Strong understanding of private equity fund structures, investment strategies, and portfolio company valuation.
• Advanced knowledge of discounted cash flow, comparable company, precedent transaction, and other valuation methodologies.
• Experience developing and reviewing complex financial models.
• Strong understanding of enterprise value, equity value, capital structures, and investment return calculations.
• Knowledge of fair value measurement principles, including IFRS 13 and other relevant accounting standards.
• Familiarity with International Private Equity and Venture Capital Valuation (IPEV) Guidelines is desirable.
• Experience assessing valuation assumptions, discount rates, market multiples, and sensitivity scenarios.
• Understanding of private equity investment instruments, including…