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• Company

  Duff and Phelps

• Location

  Chicago, IL, 60606

• Compensation

  Competitive

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  30 Jun 2008

• eFC Ref no

  405006

The Duff & Phelps’ Portfolio Valuation Advisory Group specializes in assisting clients in the valuation of alternative investments, specifically for securities and positions for which there are no active market quotations available.

At Duff & Phelps, we work with excellence in many areas of financial advisory and investment banking services, from M&A to valuation. The best part? The way we bring our unique insight to all of them. Our professionals bring practical experience, responsiveness and a collaborative approach to satisfy our clients’ needs with the rigor and independence that the market demands.

Duff & Phelps is one of the world’s leading independent financial advisory firms. Our growing global presence attracts independent professionals who think outside the continent, while our entrepreneurial approach ensures each new mind makes a difference. What unites us? It's more than a job—it's an outlook.

If you’re looking for a welcoming, diverse atmosphere, as well as the tools and support to foster your career, look to Duff & Phelps. We offer it all, plus the benefits and competitive compensation you expect as a professional. Bring your talent and motivation, and we’ll provide you the means for success.

The Duff & Phelps’ Portfolio Valuation Advisory Group brings extensive and unparalleled industry specific experience through years of working with some of the world’s foremost investors in alternative assets. We assist our clients with the valuation challenges of a single investment to entire portfolios of investments. We advise on valuation policy including performing independent “diagnostic” assessments of a client’s existing valuation policy to assisting in the development and implementation of industry leading valuation “best practices”.

Directors will provide a range of valuation advisory services specifically to the alternative investment community including private equity and hedge funds, Business Development Companies, corporations, pensions and endowments in assisting those clients with valuation issues surrounding their alternative investment positions. Directors will also provide a range of valuation advisory services to our clients’ underlying portfolio companies including business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations and stock option valuations.

Responsibilities include:

• Building long-term client relationships through exceptional client service including a deep understanding of the client and their needs, exceptional responsiveness, and the delivery of the highest quality service and work product

• Translating exceptional client service skills into new client relationships

• Developing a deep technical strength in the valuation of alternative assets, serving as a firm resource for that expertise and sharing that knowledge through training and mentoring

• Translating deep technical strength into an industry-wide resource through speaking engagements, writing articles and position papers

• Developing and implementing fundamentally sound and technically rigorous procedures and processes for executing unique engagements

• Managing client engagements from day-to-day interaction with the client through to staffing and managing the resources and work plan through to timely completion

• Individuals will be assigned a wide variety of projects and given as much responsibility as their experience and capabilities permit

Experience:

• Demonstrated technical skills, proven analytical and problem solving skills

• Demonstrated leadership experience including managing and developing client relationships as well as mentoring and developing staff

• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills, comfortable speaking with senior management and in front of an audience

• Minimum of 7 years of related work experience

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting or Economics; or MBA from an accredited college/university

• CFA or CPA professional designation a plus

Duff & Phelps is committed to providing equal opportunities in employment. We will not discriminate between applications for reason of gender, race, religion, color, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, age or disability.