Assistant Director, Real Estate Valuation

This is your opportunity to join Deloitte Real Estate Advisory - a team that blends consulting, finance, construction, digital and property skills to address the most complex challenges in real estate and infrastructure. Within Deloitte Real Estate Advisory is our well-established and growing Valuation team. We are a unique Valuation practice in the market, blending the core services and skills associated with the valuation profession with the strategic insight and perspectives which are the bedrock of Deloitte.

As one of the largest and most respected integrated real estate advisory teams in the UK, the team includes chartered surveyors, cost consultants, project managers, engineers, technology specialists and accountants. Connect to your career at Deloitte. Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

We are currently looking for an ambitious professional with experience in delivering Valuation and associated advice to join our Valuation, Assurance & Professional Advisory team. Working at Assistant Director level you will advise on a wide range of projects for both our public and private sector clients, who occupy, invest in and lend to a vast array of real estate. This is a senior role and will require proven a proven track record in delivering insightful results to clients, having a fastidious eye for detail, contributing to the team’s strategy and nurturing our talent. In turn, working here will give you the chance to further develop your business consulting skills to build on your existing professional or industry expertise.

Expectations of the role will include:

• Providing valuation assurance services across both Deloitte’s internal network (with our market leading Audit practice) and direct to clients in the UK and overseas;
• Interacting with the breadth of Deloitte’s various disciplines, including our Tax and Legal and Transactions businesses, taking lead engagement roles in the delivery of strategic advice;
• Providing opinions of value for Financial Statements, strategic asset management and Purchase Price Allocation;
• Identifying new trends and supporting the development of innovative valuation related solutions across the spectrum of Real Assets;
• Learning and liaising with colleagues from different professional disciplines to deliver the most informed solutions for our clients;
• Contributing to continued development of Deloitte’s market profile.

We are looking for people who are comfortable dealing with clients at senior management and leadership levels with ranging levels of experience in real estate. This will therefore require someone who is an excellent communicator and is able to articulate complex situations and messaging into clear advice and insight.

Three key reasons this presents an excellent opportunity for successful applicants:

1. You will work with the biggest clients across the UK and beyond.
2. You will engage at the very top of the organisation.
3. You will be part of a high performing team with the opportunities to develop your career in a large professional services firm.

Key required skills:

• You can collect and analyse data from appropriate sources to extract insights and develop informed recommendations that shape or support project objectives.
• You can deliver effective presentations and reports to convey clear messaging and insights to clients and stakeholders.
• You are interested and aware of trends in the market that impact our clients.
• Experience in building, developing and leading diverse, effective teams, fostering an environment of learning, inclusion and support.

Key required experience:

• Valuation – delivering opinions of value, strategic valuation advice and/or assurance reviews.
• Working knowledge of Argus Enterprise/Developer; Creation of discounted cash flows; Use/knowledge of visualisation software such as PowerBI.
• Business Rates – delivering strategic advice; navigating the Check, Challenge, Appeal process; valuation of specialist and trading properties; negotiations, and use of Riverlake and Analyse (or equivalent).

Our Infrastructure and Real Estate team supports both public and private sector clients on complex infrastructure, real estate, and capital projects. Typical engagements include urban regeneration, transport, energy and renewables, and occupier advisory to central government and large corporate companies.

Our hybrid working policy: You’ll be based in London or Manchester with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy.

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