M&A Analyst

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking highly motivated Analyst for its Singapore office, providing an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising. In particular, an Analyst’s work will typically cover the following:

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assisting senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale leaseback agreements, asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents and deal marketing materials
• Conduct due diligence and assess sellers’ and target business’s plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with clients’ senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• Minimum 12 months’ M&A advisory experience in an investment bank
• Professional proficiency in English required
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
• Effective client management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
• Willingness to travel

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.