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Corporate Development Analyst

Join a team where culture is everything! We are looking for a high-achieving and driven pre-MBA candidate with a desire to continue building their current skillset before pursuing business school. The Corporate Development Analyst will focus on the strategic development, evaluation, and decision-making process related to Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) that will resultantly drive value across our Vistage platform. Our goal is nothing short of building a world-class organization. Training Magazine recently named Vistage seventh in the world for our extraordinary investment and results in human growth and development. Come join us!

The Company

With more than 21,000 members, Vistage Worldwide, Inc. is the world’s foremost chief executive leadership-development organization, providing unparalleled access to issue resolution and better performance through monthly peer-advisory groups, one-on-one business coaching, expert-speaker presentations, and extensive online connectivity via articles, best practices, podcasts and webinars. 

Today, Vistage Worldwide and its affiliates operate in 16 countries. Members meet in small, professionally-facilitated and process-driven groups every month to help one another make better decisions, achieve better results, and become better leaders. They are also connecting and learning by collaborating online, tapping into a vast content library, and applying the expertise of hundreds of top industry speakers. Simply stated, Vistage is instrumental in helping its members figure out what to do and to actually do what they must to get their companies to “the next level” of growth and success. 

Vistage-member companies generate more than $300 billion in annual revenues and employ approximately two million employees around the world. Studies have shown that Vistage-member companies outperform their competitors and, on average, grow their revenues at three times the percentage growth rate after joining Vistage. Consequently, Vistage enjoys extraordinary high membership retention, attendance and tenure rates. Vistage continues to grow its membership, expand internationally, build its brand, and leverage technology. 

Responsibilities
Reporting to the VP of Corporate Development & Strategy, the Corporate Development Analyst will be driving key work streams in these following areas:

Corporate Development

  • Provide insight, recommendations, and support as a thought partner across Corporate Development activities
  • Identify strategic partnerships to drive growth and member value
  • Develop investment hypotheses, identify acquisition targets, and build financial models for potential acquisitions
  • Leverage business knowledge and frameworks in evaluating and prioritizing opportunities
  • Drive due diligence efforts to fully understand financial strategic, and other considerations
  • Assess various investment theses
  • Execute, support, and coordinate integration plans  

Strategic Projects

  • Drive and support key strategic projects by collaborating with cross-functional teams
  • Work to improve and grow the business by collaborating with senior executives on special initiatives
  • Actively contribute new ideas and perspective on strategic decisions 

Qualifications

Our successful candidate must have excellent financial modeling skills and experience in M&A, investment banking, and/or private equity. He/she must have a perpetual curiosity for business and be looking for a high-impact opportunity with C-level exposure in preparation to enter a competitive business program.  

  • Pre-MBA with intent to apply to a top-tier business school
  • Bachelors in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, or equivalent from a competitive program
  • Passion for understanding challenges of middle market businesses
  • Executive presence and ability to cultivate C-level partnerships