ANALYST / SENIOR ANALYST, LIFE SCIENCES FUND
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About the Role
BDC's Life Sciences Venture Fund is seeking an Investment Analyst to support deal sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management with a focus on medical devices. You will perform financial analysis, market research, and assist in monitoring investments.
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Responsibilities
- Assist in managing the deal pipeline and providing financial analysis for end of period reports
- Perform market research and scouting to inform the fund's investment strategy, identifying emerging markets, verticals, technologies, or companies
- Conduct initial business plan reviews, support initial communications with entrepreneurs and referring sources, prepare initial interview guides and alignment memo with recommendations
- Perform due diligence analysis on companies' market, competition, management, sales, products, cap table, and anything relevant to determining potential business value and exit strategies
- Determine and validate performance metrics, feeding valuation models, forecasts and financial pro formas
- Monitor portfolio performance, comparing performance to forecasts and models, and relaying potential opportunities and issues to management
Requirements
- 1 to 3 years of experience in a role involving structured thinking, financial analysis, and technical expertise in bioengineering and medical device development
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM)
- Graduate level (MSc or PhD) strongly preferred in the field of engineering or bioengineering with medical applications
- Good skills in Excel, particularly in building financial models that include sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling
- Ability to use other MS suite applications, mainly Word and PowerPoint
- Bilingualism in French and English is an asset
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Position Overview
- Canada's life sciences sector holds significant potential, yet critical capital gaps remain. BDC's new Life Sciences Venture Fund is designed to address these gaps by investing in Canadian life sciences startups, accelerating their growth, anchoring innovation in Canada, and ensuring that economic r
- Investment Analysts to join the Life Sciences Team as an early career professional to operate parts of the process of evaluating potential deals and of monitoring our current portfolio, with a focus in the area of medical devices.
Challenges To Be Met
- Assist in managing the deal pipeline and providing financial analysis for end of period reports.
- Support other team members as appropriate during the life cycle of an investment.
- Ensure that the investment research files, and other collected information, including legal documentation, are maintained in conformity with our policies and procedures.
- Ensure that new and existing investment files are properly documented by monitoring investments, amendments, and disbursements, including financial analysis and forecasting.
- Discuss informally with entrepreneurs, investors and company representatives at occasional investment community or industry events, relaying any relevant information upwards.
- Stay on top of the current portfolio, identifying companies that are likely to raise funds for new and follow on investments, and relaying information upwards.
- Perform market research and scouting to inform the fund's investment strategy, identifying emerging markets, verticals, technologies, or companies.
- Conduct initial business plan reviews, support initial communications with entrepreneurs and referring sources, prepare initial interview guides and alignment memo with recommendations to pursue or decline.
- Perform due diligence analysis on companies' market, competition, management, sales, products, cap table, and anything that is relevant to determining potential business value and exit strategies.
- Manage operational tasks in due diligence such as booking meetings, and preparing interview guides.
- Determine and validate performance metrics, feeding valuation models, forecasts and financial pro formas.
- Analyze technical documentation and/or work with technical consultants to evaluate technologies, products, and services.
What We Are Looking For
- 1 to 3 years of experience in a role involving structured thinking, financial analysis, and technical expertise in bioengineering and medical device development.
- Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).
- Graduate level (MSc or PhD) strongly preferred in the field of engineering or bioengineering with medical applications.
- Good skills in Excel, particularly in building financial models that include sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling, as well as performing data analysis.
- Fair ability to use other MS suite applications, mainly Word and PowerPoint.
- Ability to answer questions politely in the context of a presentation to executive audiences.
- Any technology skills with wide application, such as coding, chemistry, electronics are an asset.
- Operational knowledge of any technical industry is an asset.
- Bilingualism in French and English is an asset.
Behavioral Traits
- Supportive, helpful attitude – willingness to proactively identify gaps and jump in to fill them.
- Motivation and ability to do focused, independent work, in the context of a team.
- Ability to work collaboratively and build positive relationships with stakeholders.
- Willingness to learn and take feedback constructively.
- Comfort working in a fast paced environment, where objectives must be met within tight deadlines.
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