Director – Corporate Development

Responsibilities

• Identify new target opportunities that are in support of Ulteig’s Strategy.
• Engagement and oversight as a trusted advisor to the leadership team to help build and foster relationships and close strategic acquisitions.
• Work with Executive Leadership and other Ulteig leaders to understand and develop strategic direction on acquisition priorities
• Develop a pipeline process leveraging strategic business unit priorities
• Lead and drive deal sourcing including proactive target identification, screening and analysis and providing updates to the senior leadership
• Engage, develop, and manage external relationships to support early insight into relevant opportunities
• Support acquisition valuation, and pre-closing processes including the provision of comprehensive financial and strategic rationale to senior leaders; manage the deal execution process in alignment with the CSO and the CFO
• Lead a cross functional team for due diligence and transaction processes with the goal of a seamless execution
• Support determination of deal structure and deal negotiations
• Support the deal communications process (i. e., Board presentation preparation, Executive Leadership and broader ULT updates, organizational communications) in alignment with the CSO, CFO, Executive Leadership, and corporate communications
• Support integration process by working with the identified Integration Leader to ensure appropriate focus on and commitment to the acquisition integration; ensure proper training on the corporate integration process
• Develop and implement processes and performance measures around M&A
• Create and refine detailed and dynamic DCF models to distill a clear and concise investment conclusion
• Lead the sourcing and execution of corporate finance initiatives across the capital structure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, or related fields
• At least 12 years of experience in all aspects of M&A, including sourcing, financial modeling, due diligence, closing, Day 1, Day 2 and post-merger integrations.
• Prior experience in investment banking, private equity, and/or management consulting
• Demonstrated experience in pipeline development, including upstream opportunity identification and signal tracking for M&A or strategic growth initiatives
• Cross-functional leadership skills and ability to establish and foster effective professional relationships, internally and externally
• Excellent internal and external communication skills; ability to effectively articulate messages, to be persuasive, and explain position to target audiences who may possess varying levels of technical knowledge
• Proficiency with accounting fundamentals and financial analysis
• Strong DCF model building skills
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Business and financial acumen, combined with analytical thinking, resulting in the ability to manage the company‘s opportunities, risk, profitability, volume, etc.
• Strategic and innovative thinker who can envision the future and lead and manage change efforts when necessary.
• Adaptable and flexible to a changing environment.
• Proven ability to effectively manage diverse teams (including functional teams, project teams, etc.) to achieve results, despite multiple and changing priorities.
• Strong problem-solving, negotiation, conflict-management, public speaking and presentation skills
• Organized and detail oriented with the ability to adapt to a changing environment
• Must have the ability to travel up to 50%
• Must have authorization to work permanently in the U. S.
• Hard Skills
• M&A
• financial modeling
• due diligence
• DCF model building
• pipeline development
• deal sourcing
• acquisition valuation
• deal structure
• transaction processes
• financial analysis
• Soft Skills
• cross-functional leadership
• communication skills
• problem-solving
• negotiation
• conflict management
• public speaking
• presentation skills
• organizational skills
• adaptability
• analytical thinking

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance
• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering
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