M&A Corporate Development Associate

1 month ago
Full-time
Junior
Operations
A-LIGN

A-LIGN

A-LIGN provides comprehensive compliance and cybersecurity solutions, specializing in helping businesses navigate the complexities of security assessments and audits across various industries.

Professional Services
251-1K
Founded 2009

Description

  • Help manage the end-to-end M&A process by coordinating internal stakeholders, advisors, and external counterparties to keep deals on timeline.
  • Review confidential information memoranda, management presentations, and data rooms and synthesize findings into investment theses and recommendations.
  • Build and maintain financial models, including valuation, LBO/return analysis, and buyside and synergy cases to support deal evaluation.
  • Build and maintain the acquisition pipeline by proactively sourcing and screening targets with senior leadership.
  • Lead relationships with investment bankers, brokers, and intermediaries to surface and track opportunities.
  • Lead and coordinate diligence workstreams across financial, commercial, legal, technical, and HR areas.
  • Prepare investment committee and board materials, including target overviews, deal memos, and recommendation decks.
  • Support negotiation, structuring, and execution activities, including LOIs, purchase agreements, and integration planning with deal counsel.
  • Maintain pipeline trackers, market maps, and competitive landscape analyses across core and adjacent markets.
  • Partner with corporate strategy on build-vs-buy analysis, new-service and new-market sizing, and post-close integration tracking.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
  • 2–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, or corporate development.
  • Demonstrated exposure to M&A processes, including diligence, valuation, execution, and sourcing.
  • Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.
  • Excellent written and analytical skills with the ability to distill complex information into clear recommendations.
  • Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Highly organized self-starter able to manage multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders under deadline pressure.
  • Ability to meet deadlines with a high degree of motivation.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Ability to work individually as well as collaboratively.

Benefits

  • Healthcare, dental, and vision benefits.
  • Employer-paid life insurance and disability insurance.
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
  • Pet insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with employer matching.
  • Competitive bonus structure.
  • Home office reimbursement.
  • Certification reimbursement.
  • Personalized career coaching.
  • Generous paid time off.
  • Paid office closure from December 25 to January 1.
  • Vacation bonus.
  • Summer hours.

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