Strategy and Corporate Development Analyst

Position Summary

The Strategy & Corporate Development Analyst will support enterprise strategy, corporate development, M&A, partnerships, and market intelligence work. This role is designed for someone with strong analytical ability, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to learn transaction-related work on the job.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a corporate development pipeline, including target lists, research notes, outreach status, strategic rationale, and follow-up items.
• Support due diligence processes by organizing information requests, tracking open items, summarizing findings, and coordinating inputs from internal and external stakeholders.
• Avoid learning and support basic financial analysis, valuation, business-case development, and scenario analysis over time.
• Build market maps that identify relevant companies, competitors, potential partners, acquisition targets, and emerging sector trends.
• Create company profiles that summarize business model, ownership, leadership, market position, products/services, growth indicators, strategic fit, and potential relevance.
• Monitor relevant news, transactions, investor activity, market shifts, and competitor moves.
• Translate research into concise summaries, insights, and recommendations for senior leadership.
• Support enterprise strategy projects, growth initiatives, and special projects as needed.
• Prepare presentation materials, research briefs, and analytical summaries for executive audiences.
• Cook up follow-ups, workstream trackers, and project documentation across cross-functional initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, strategy, data analytics, or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, investment analysis, FP&A, market research, business analytics, strategic finance, or related analytical roles.
• Experience supporting executive-level analyses, strategic initiatives, business case development, or cross-functional projects preferred.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous problem sets.
• Basic understanding of financial statements, accounting concepts, business models, and financial analysis.
• Strong research and analytical skills, including the ability to gather information from multiple sources and synthesize it clearly.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Clear written communication and ability to produce concise summaries, briefs, and presentations.
• High attention to detail, strong organizational habits, and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Curiosity about markets, companies, strategy, business models, and M&A.
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior exposure to investment banking, private equity, consulting, corporate strategy, FP&A, accounting, market research, or business analytics.
• Experience creating market maps, company profiles, financial analyses, business cases, or executive presentations.
• Familiarity with financial statements, valuation concepts, corporate transactions, or M&A terminology.
• Experience using CRM tools, Excel models, PowerPoint, or data visualization tools.
• Interest in further developing expertise in financial modeling, strategic analysis, and transaction execution.