Financial Advisory | Talent standards
Real Estate – Development – Senior Associate
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In an international firm like Deloitte, our strong global presence is complemented by our local reach and market knowledge. A career in Financial Advisory will equip you with a deep understanding of the local and regional business landscape, enabling you to identify opportunities and risks to our clients’ businesses. In addition, your breadth of vision will be engaged, as you match our global resources to our clients’ advantage. Our FA practice encompasses a broad range of specializations and services but whose common goal is to offer strategic services to clients throughout every phase of the economic cycle.
Our Purpose
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- Lead the way
- Serve with integrity
- Take care of each other
- Foster inclusion
- Collaborate for measurable impact
During your tenure as a Senior Associate in Real Estate Development, you will demonstrate and develop your capabilities in the following areas:
• The multi-disciplinary Real Estate team in the Middle East supports a wide range of clients in the Real Estate sector, including developers, investors, landowners and government entities. Integrating with other teams within the FA practice, other work we undertake includes project finance, capital raising, financial modelling, transaction due diligence and forensic support.
- The Real Estate team provides the following services for clients:
- Development & THL: Market, financial and strategic development advice for planned Real Estate (office/retail/residential/industrial) and Tourism, Hospitality and Leisure (“THL”) industry projects (from single sites to large scale mixed use master planned schemes).
- Valuation: Valuation of office, retail, residential, industrial and hospitality assets in accordance with RICS Valuation-Professional Standards (the ‘Red Book’) and audit assist work.
- Dispute: Arbitration and Expert Witness services to support real estate related disputes.
- Advising government bodies, developers, investors and corporate owners on real estate
development, market/financial due diligence and strategy.
• Being a primary point of contact for clients, managing the delivery of engagements, undertaking the preparation of client reports, undertaking development appraisals and working with clients and their design teams to deliver strategies to support real estate development projects. The work will cover residential, office, retail, hospitality and industrial sectors.
• Experience is typically a minimum MRICS/CFA II qualification.
• Based in Cairo, with travel across the Middle East to deliver client engagements.
• Mentoring and development of junior colleagues.
Leadership Capabilities:
- Identifies and embraces our purpose and values and puts these into practice in their professional life
- Develops self by actively seeking opportunities for growth, shares knowledge and experiences with others, and acts as a strong brand ambassador
- Seeks opportunities to challenge self; teams with others across businesses and borders to deliver and takes accountability for own and team results
- Builds relationships and communicates effectively in order to positively influence peers and other stakeholders
- Understands objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns own work to objectives and sets personal priorities
Qualifications:
- Educated to graduate level, with a Real Estate, Finance or related (Economics, Geography, Finance, Business) degree.
- A high level of numerical competence, with experience of using MS Excel and ability to develop pivot tables and complex formulas. Knowledge of other financial analytics tools is a plus.
- Familiarity and knowledge of corporate finance.
- Experience with investment analysis and working with financial models.
- RICS, ACCA, CFA or willingness to pursue similar professional qualification is an advantage.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience as a financial analyst in real estate or in a similar field.
- Primary English speaking and writing is essential. Arabic fluency is an advantage.
- Strong interpersonal, planning, organizational and time management skills.
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
· The chosen candidate will be required to work from our Deloitte office in East Cairo.