THE PLATFORM ARM OF PACEMAKERS

Where financial modeling meets real-world execution

Built by a practitioner with twelve years on multi-billion riyal deals, now available as free certification training and institutional-grade modeling tools.

Real Estate Models
Business Valuation
Project Finance
Renewable Energy
FP&A
Capital Structuring
Debt Sizing
M&A Advisory

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THE PLATFORM

What is Financial Modeler Pro.

The Modeling Hub is a practitioner-built platform that replaces complex manual spreadsheets with structured, guided financial modeling workflows. Built for analysts, investors, and advisory firms who need institutional-grade outputs without months of rebuilding from scratch. Every module walks you through a professional framework with traceable calculations and presentation-ready formatting.

What makes the Modeling Hub different is that it's built by a practitioner who uses these models daily on real transactions. Each module reflects how deals are actually structured in institutional-grade advisory work - not a generic academic template. Whether you're modeling a real estate development, a business valuation, a leveraged buyout, or an FP&A model, the framework is designed for the way real deals work.

Every model exports to a fully formula-linked Excel workbook for customization and to a clean investor-ready PDF report ready to share with clients from day one. No cleanup. No reformatting. Just professional outputs in hours instead of weeks.

What you get

Multi-discipline modelingReal estate development, business valuation, project finance, FP&A and corporate finance, each with its own workflow rather than one generic template.
Structured workflowsA model is built module by module in a fixed order, so nothing is left undefined and no assumption is buried in a cell nobody opens.
Structured Excel and investor PDF exportThe workbook exports fully built and traceable, every figure showing the basis it was calculated on, alongside a clean PDF report ready to circulate.
Built by a practitioner, not a software companyEvery module reflects how a deal was actually structured. When a live mandate exposes a structure the tools handle badly, the tools change.

WHO IT IS FOR

Built for the people who have to defend the numbers.

The platform assumes a working knowledge of finance and no patience for a course that never reaches a model.

Financial Analysts

Build a complete, balanced model without starting from an empty workbook every time. The structure, the schedules and the checks are already in place, so the work goes into the assumptions rather than into wiring up the mechanics.

Investment Professionals

Screen and underwrite opportunities on a consistent basis. Scenario analysis compares cases side by side, and the IC presentation builder turns the result into a deck whose figures stay linked to the model behind it.

Real Estate Developers

Model a phased, multi-asset development properly: mixed unit programmes, construction drawn against a facility with interest capitalised during the build, instalment revenue, and an equity waterfall that survives a lender review.

Family Offices

Review your own holdings rather than outsourcing the review. Test a sponsor case yourself, see which assumptions carry the return, and hold an independent view before committing capital.

Lenders and Banks

Interrogate a borrower model on your own terms. DSCR, debt sizing, sculpting and covenant headroom are computed explicitly, so a credit team can stress the case rather than accept a sponsor summary.

Students and Aspiring Analysts

Learn the method that firms actually use, then prove it. Both certification paths are free, assessed rather than attendance-based, and end in a certificate an employer can verify online.

THE TWO HALVES

Two platforms. One destination.

One teaches the method and one runs it. Both are free to start and both open on the Financial Modeler Pro site.

BUILD

Modeling Hub

Live now
Free to start

The modeling engine. A guided workflow takes a model from project setup through to investor returns, one module at a time, with every calculation traceable to the input that drives it. Real Estate Financial Modeling is live now, with business valuation and equity research in build.

Project setup covering structure, land allocation, costs and financing
Revenue modelling across unit sales, hospitality and retail, with cohort-based collection
Operating expense, payroll and fixed-cost schedules across the operating window
A full three-statement output: P&L, cash flow and balance sheet, linked and balanced
Returns analysis with IRR, NPV, MoIC, DSCR, equity multiples and stabilised yield
Scenario analysis and an IC presentation builder whose figures stay linked to the model

Exports to a formula-linked Excel workbook and an investor-ready PDF.

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LEARN

Training Hub

2 certification paths
100% free

The method, taught and assessed. Video sessions build the model with you, each one ending in a quiz you have to pass before the next unlocks, and the path finishes with a certification exam. Free, and it stays free.

Two paths: 3-Statement Financial Modeling and Business Valuation Modeling
Sessions delivered on the platform, each ending in an assessment
A 70% pass mark on each session before the next one unlocks
A final certification exam covering the whole path
A verified certificate with a unique ID, QR code and a permanent verification link
No fees, no subscription and no paywall on any course or certificate

Employers and institutions can verify any certificate online at any time.

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CERTIFICATION

Two paths, both free, both assessed.

Certification is earned on assessment rather than attendance. Each path ends in an exam and a certificate carrying a unique ID.

3SFM

3-Statement Financial Modeling

17 Sessions
6 Hours
Beginner

The complete integrated model, built from zero: income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement, linked and balanced. The foundation every other discipline on the platform assumes you have.

Build a fully integrated income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement
Model capex, depreciation, working capital and debt schedules
Create revenue models with capacity planning and production forecasts
Build COGS, payroll, overhead and tax models from scratch
Link all three statements and balance the balance sheet
Apply the Excel techniques used in investment banking and corporate finance

Verified certificate with a unique ID on passing all 17 assessments and the final exam.

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BVM

Business Valuation Modeling

6 Lessons
3 Hours
Intermediate

The three core valuation methodologies used by investment bankers, corporate finance teams and equity researchers, built from scratch in Excel and presented as a professional football field chart.

Apply DCF valuation using both FCFF and FCFE
Build a rolling WACC model and reconcile FCFF against FCFE
Construct a comparable companies valuation model
Calculate and apply EV/EBITDA, P/E and EV/Revenue multiples
Apply control premium and DLOM adjustments
Build a football field chart showing the valuation range

Verified certificate with a unique ID on passing all 6 lesson assessments and the final exam.

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GET STARTED

Start on the platform. Come to the firm when it stops being a modeling question.

Registration is free, the Modeling Hub is open and both certification paths cost nothing. When the question moves past the model and becomes a judgment call, PaceMakers takes it from there.

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