Corporate Development Associate

Financial Modeling & Valuation: Build and maintain complex, dynamic financial models to evaluate potential target companies and strategic initiatives.

Assist with the process to identify and evaluate potential opportunities, which includes a rigorous idea generation and screening process that will bring quality acquisition and investment ideas to the executive team and board.

Assist with target analysis and financial modeling to estimate revenue and profitability of merger or acquisition over a multi-year project period.

Collaborate with peers across the globe on market research and analysis to help lead initiatives to drive business objectives.

Deal Execution & Due Diligence: Manage the day-to-day due diligence process for active transactions. Coordinate internal cross-functional teams (Legal, Finance, HR, Product) and external advisors (investment banks, accounting firms).

Market Intelligence & Pipeline Management: Research industry trends, track competitor landscape, and proactively identify attractive M&A target companies. Maintain and update our active M&A pipeline.

Partner and align with business leaders before, during and after the M&A processes, to ensure the deals make strategic sense, enable forward-looking business/growth plans, and are integrated smoothly/effectively across the organization.

Integration Planning: Assist in early-stage post-merger integration planning to ensure strategic alignment and synergy realization post-acquisition.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams in developing acquisition business case analyses and executing and interfacing with finance, legal, product, engineering, sales, IT, HR and other departments ensure seamless deal execution and integration investment and planning.

Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Business Administration. MBA is preferred.

Minimum of 2 years’ experience supporting and / or leading merger integrations or divestitures within a consulting firm or equivalent in an internal corporate role in a major corporation.