M&A Corporate Development Associate

Responsibilities

• Help manage the end-to-end M&A process, coordinating internal stakeholders, advisors, and external counterparties to keep deals on timeline
• Review confidential information memoranda (CIMs), management presentations, and data rooms; synthesize findings into clear 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; proactively source and screen targets with A-LIGN senior leadership
• Lead relationships with investment bankers, brokers, and intermediaries to surface and track opportunities
• Lead and coordinate diligence workstreams, including financial, commercial, legal, technical, and HR diligence activities
• 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 in partnership with deal counsel
• Maintain pipeline trackers, market maps, and competitive landscape analyses across A-LIGN’s core and adjacent markets
• Partner with corporate strategy on build-vs-buy analysis, new-service and new-market opportunity sizing, and post-close integration tracking

Qualifications

• 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
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment
• Able to work individually as well as collaboratively