Associate, Corporate Development

Role overview

Strategic and transaction work

• Develop growth ideas, scope initiatives, and prepare business cases using financial and strategic analysis.
• Coordinate with business units, functional teams, and Corporate Venture Capital to support inorganic growth plans.
• Assess acquisition and divestiture opportunities for strategic fit and value; analyze potential growth areas.
• Build forecasts and merger models, assess synergies and dis-synergies, conduct valuation analysis, and estimate transaction impacts.
• Coordinate transactions, lead due diligence efforts, and support negotiations.
• Prepare recommendations for senior executives and the Board; engage business leaders, advisers, counterparties, and target companies.
• Monitor industry developments and support disclosures, goodwill impairment testing, recovery and resolution planning, and legal entity tax valuations as needed.

Required qualifications

• University degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Math, Engineering, or a similar field.
• Four years of corporate finance or M&A experience; financial-services M&A, investment banking, or accounting-firm experience is preferred.
• Advanced financial modeling and valuation skills.
• Experience preparing market and target-company presentations, with financial-services knowledge and research and analysis capability.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, analytical, and problem-solving skills; able to engage senior stakeholders.
• Resourceful, solutions-focused, curious, and able to adapt working hours as needed.

Additional assets

• Matrix-environment experience is a plus.
• Advanced studies or credentials such as MBA, CFA, CA, or CBV are a plus.
• Global outlook and ability to work across cultures and time zones are a plus.

Employment details

• Full-time, regular position with salaried pay.
• Work schedule is listed as 37.5 hours per week.