Job Summary:
Vonage, now a subsidiary and business division within Ericsson AB, is looking for an investment banking, private equity or management consulting associate / senior analyst to join our Corporate Strategy and Development team and help build out our cloud communications business.
The role will focus on corporate development / M&A and strategy.
As a strategist, you will help support development of short and long term strategies by reference to dynamics in the cloud communications industry (covering communications and collaboration as-a-service as well as communications platform as a service (CPaaS)), competitive developments and emerging trends. You will lead development of powerpoint-type presentations and excel analyses explaining such strategies. The role also requires driving alignment of our strategy with our financial forecast and budgets and establishing frameworks for their realization.
You will also drive several key M&A undertakings. These include tracking industry M&A activity, creating comparable company analysis, building valuation models and pro forma merger analysis, and creating M&A committee presentations.
The candidate’s primary day-to-day workloads will involve a substantial mix of building out financial analysis and creating powerpoint-type presentations in context of our strategy and M&A initiatives. You will study cloud communications and technology literature, analyze company performance by reviewing financial and operational data, support ongoing strategy and M&A priorities, and attend functional leadership meetings on business performance.
Essential Job Functions:
- Competitive / Financial Analysis
- Build business cases / financial analysis to support strategy and identified initiatives, by coordinating with FP&A and business intelligence teams
- Analyze public peers quarterly earnings and create summary analysis on financial and business performance
- Help synthesize analysis, findings and recommendations into executive powerpoint style presentations with appropriate supporting analyses
- M&A Diligence and Execution
- Track industry relevant M&A and create comparable company analysis
- Maintain log of potential M&A ideas and opportunities
- Facilitate and support deal evaluation and diligence: create valuation models and M&A committee presentations
- Strategy Development and Implementation
- Support our annual strategy planning process: develop strategy materials (powerpoints) summarizing market developments, financial performance, product comparison, and key strategic questions
- Help frame issues and strategic initiatives through financial modeling (eg, identifying highest ROE areas for investment, financial effects of key strategic initiatives etc); work with business intelligence and finance to develop and vet data and analysis underpinning strategic issues and decisions
Compensation is highly competitive.
Qualifications and Skills
- 2-4 years experience in investment banking / mergers & acquisitions or private equity at the analyst or associate level
- Strong presentation development skills; high proficiency in Powerpoint and Word
- Strong analytical and financial modeling skills; proficiency in Excel
- Familiarity in reading financial statements and understanding basic accounting principles
- Complex problem-solving skills; innovative with ability to create differentiated analysis based on the situation
- Undergraduate degree in engineering, economics, computer science or other science fields
Key Qualities
- Able to thrive in ambiguity and drive towards outcomes
- Strong problem solving, analysis skills
- Professional maturity
- Versatile: interest in taking on wide gamut of responsibilities: framing and undertaking financial analytics; evaluating industry trends; seeking out business / financial information developing; and explaining strategy presentations
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