Senior Purchase Price Allocation Specialist

Job Title:

Senior Purchase Price Allocation 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 Purchase Price Allocation Specialist to manage and perform purchase price allocation (PPA) analyses arising from business combinations, acquisitions, mergers, and strategic investments. The role focuses on identifying and valuing acquired assets and liabilities, assessing intangible assets, determining goodwill, and supporting acquisition accounting in accordance with applicable financial reporting standards. Working remotely from the UAE, you will collaborate with finance, corporate development, valuation, accounting, and transaction advisory teams to deliver accurate, well-supported valuation analyses and reporting documentation.

• Lead and coordinate purchase price allocation assessments for acquisitions and business combinations.
• Analyze transaction structures, acquisition agreements, consideration transferred, and relevant closing adjustments.
• Identify acquired tangible assets, intangible assets, assumed liabilities, and contingent liabilities.
• Evaluate the recognition and measurement of identifiable intangible assets, including brands, customer relationships, technology, software, patents, and contractual rights.
• Apply appropriate valuation methodologies, including income, market, and cost approaches.
• Develop and review valuation models using discounted cash flow, relief-from-royalty, excess earnings, and other relevant techniques.
• Assess useful lives, economic obsolescence, attrition rates, royalty rates, and other valuation assumptions.
• Review working capital, property, plant and equipment, financial instruments, and other identifiable balance sheet items.
• Evaluate contingent consideration, earn-outs, and other acquisition-related financial obligations.
• Calculate goodwill or bargain purchase gains based on the allocation of acquisition consideration.
• Assess deferred tax implications arising from fair value adjustments and identified intangible assets.
• Reconcile purchase price allocation results with acquisition accounting records and financial reporting schedules.
• Review management forecasts, transaction assumptions, and supporting financial information for consistency and reliability.
• Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to evaluate the impact of changes in key valuation assumptions.
• Coordinate with external valuation advisers, auditors, legal teams, and internal finance stakeholders.
• Prepare technical accounting papers, valuation reports, allocation schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Support financial statement disclosures relating to business combinations and acquisition accounting.
• Assist with goodwill allocation and subsequent impairment testing requirements.
• Monitor relevant changes in IFRS, particularly IFRS 3 and IAS 38, and other applicable accounting and valuation guidance.
• Establish standardized PPA procedures, model templates, review controls, and documentation standards.
• Identify valuation inconsistencies, accounting issues, and potential reporting risks, recommending appropriate corrective actions.
• Manage multiple acquisition-related assignments while maintaining accuracy, confidentiality, and reporting deadlines.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
• Professional qualifications such as ACCA, CPA, ACA, CFA, or equivalent are highly desirable.
• Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Valuation, or Business Administration is an advantage.
• Significant experience in purchase price allocation, business valuation, transaction advisory, corporate finance, or acquisition accounting.
• Strong understanding of business combination accounting under IFRS 3 and relevant financial reporting standards.
• Knowledge of IAS 38, IAS 12, IAS 36, and other standards relevant to acquired assets, deferred taxes, and goodwill.
• Demonstrated experience identifying and valuing intangible assets arising from acquisitions.
• Advanced knowledge of valuation methodologies, including DCF, relief-from-royalty, and multi-period excess earnings methods.
• Experience assessing customer relationships, brands, technology, software, patents, and other intangible assets.
• Strong understanding of fair value measurement principles and valuation assumptions.
• Experience analyzing acquisition consideration, contingent…