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About the Role
Associate Directors lead the day-to-day delivery of engagements and work closely with senior professionals and testifying experts on complex issues at the intersection of valuation, finance, accounting, economics and law. The role includes developing and reviewing financial analyses, preparing expert reports, managing project teams, interacting directly with clients and counsel, attending trials and arbitration hearings, developing junior professionals, and contributing to the growth of the practice.
Responsibilities
- Managing engagements and significant workstreams involving business valuation and economic damages
- Developing and reviewing complex financial models, valuation analyses, forecasts, discount rates and other financial inputs
- Analyzing financial and non-financial information and identifying issues relevant to the valuation or quantification of economic damages
- Conducting and directing economic, financial, industry and company-specific research
- Preparing and reviewing expert reports and other written analyses
- Preparing and reviewing rebuttal analyses that assess the analyses and conclusions of other experts
- Communicating directly with clients and counsel regarding analyses, information requirements, findings and engagement progress
- Managing project plans, staffing, timelines, budgets and deliverables
- Supervising, reviewing and developing junior team members, including providing technical guidance and feedback
- Preparing for and attending hearings, trials and mediations
- Supporting testifying experts throughout the engagement and hearing process and contributing to business development and practice-building initiatives
Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, business or another relevant discipline from a recognized post-secondary institution
- A CBV, CPA, CFA, ACA/ACCA or equivalent international professional designation
- Approximately seven to ten years of relevant professional experience
- Prior professional experience in business valuation, economic damages, forensic accounting, dispute advisory or economic consulting
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills in business valuation and financial analysis, and the ability to develop practical and creative approaches to complex financial and commercial problems
- The ability to interpret financial statements and other financial and non-financial information and identify issues relevant to an engagement
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex financial concepts clearly and concisely
- Experience managing projects or significant workstreams and working effectively under competing deadlines
- Experience supervising, reviewing and developing junior professionals
- A willingness to travel domestically or internationally when required
- Experience preparing expert reports or other analyses for litigation or arbitration proceedings
- International arbitration, direct client and counsel interaction, business development, practice-building experience
- Experience with financial databases such as S&P Capital IQ and Bloomberg
- Experience with VBA and/or python
- Additional language skills, reflecting the international nature of our practice
Skills
- Business valuation
- Economic damages
- Financial analysis
- Financial modeling
- Forensic accounting
- Dispute advisory
- Economic consulting
- Microsoft Excel
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Project management
- Financial databases (S&P Capital IQ, Bloomberg)
- VBA
- Python
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Full-time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Associate Director
- 7-10 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- CBV
- CPA
- CFA
- ACA/ACCA
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$225,000 CAD
Benefits
- Ongoing professional development
- Recognition
About the Company
- Secretariat professionals are trusted in the highest-stakes legal, risk, and regulatory matters around the world.
- Join a rapidly growing elite team of bright minds and passionate problem-solvers.
- Utilize your skills and expertise on day one, working with renowned law firms, leading corporations, and influential institutions.
- Answer complex questions that shape critical financial, economic, and strategic business decisions.
- Globally integrated teams are united by ambition, energy, and commitment.
- Inspire and empower an open, collaborative culture that embraces diversity.
- The Valuations & Damages team is a growing domestic and international practice focused on business valuation and the quantification of economic damages.
- The Toronto team works on large, complex and high-profile matters involving business valuations, post-acquisition disputes, shareholder disputes, breaches of contract and other commercial disputes and international arbitrations across a wide range of industries.
Equal Opportunity
- We inspire and empower an open, collaborative culture that embraces ongoing professional development, recognition, diversity, and – most importantly – you.
- At Secretariat, we believe in pay transparency and equity.