Valuations Senior Manager

As a Valuation & Modeling – Real Estate - Senior Manager, you’ll assist clients by leading teams that apply traditional and cutting-edge valuation approaches and methods to a variety of analyses – all with the resources, environment, and support to help you excel.

From day one, you’ll be empowered by the greater CFO Advisory team to help clients make the moves that will help them achieve their vision and help you achieve more, confidently.

Your day-to-day may include:

• Supervise and oversee the real estate component of Valuation engagements throughout the transaction process, and coordinate with other service lines to ensure compete client deliverable
• Serve as the day-to-day point person on real estate engagements, lead meetings and calls with clients and target management
• Plan, execute, direct and complete real estate valuations for financial and corporate strategic buyers from a variety of industries, including manufacturing, energy, retail, hospitality, gaming, construction, non-profit, high-tech, real estate 
• Understand and manage firm risk on projects and proposals
• Oversee the assembly, maintenance, and finalization of working papers that support real estate valuations
• Manage client expectations concerning project deliverables and deadlines and lead change efforts effectively.
• Develop and maintain strong client relationships and cross-sell services
• Manage business development activities, such as proposals, account teams, whitepapers, conferences, and/or other thought leadership material
• Work closely with Grant Thornton managers and partners to promptly identify and resolve client problems or issues
• Communicate (verbally and in writing) externally with clients and internally with all levels of the organization to successfully accomplish objectives portraying knowledge and confidence
• Lead and support business development activities, such as identification, proposal development and other pursuit activities at clients
• Meet or exceed sales targets for new and follow-on work
• Meet or exceed targeted billing hours (utilization)
• Manage, develop, train, coach, and mentor staff on projects, assess performance for engagement and year-end reviews 
• Interview campus and/or experienced candidates
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Real Estate, Accounting, Finance, Business, or related discipline required
• Minimum 8 years of related work experience in a similar consulting practice or function servicing cross industry clients at a national level with experience in business valuation required
• MAI or related Certified General Appraisal State Licenses required
• Experience in Accounting, Audit or Transaction Advisory Services
• Current knowledge in US GAAP, GAAS, SEC Reporting, transaction advisory services or mergers and acquisitions
• Purchase price allocation valuation experience
• Technical background including fair value experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and simultaneous projects in a rapidly growing practice
• Demonstrated leadership, business development, recruitment, training, and mentoring experience
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is typically up to 10% per year.

The base salary range for this position in the Manhattan NY office only is between $198,700 to $298,100

The base salary range for this position in the Chicago IL office only is between $184,000 to $276,000

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