The Corporate Development team partners closely with senior leadership to drive Cloud Software Group’s most critical strategic initiatives. The team leads all aspects of the M&A lifecycle, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, and strategic investments, and also supports broader corporate strategy initiatives such as long-range planning, capital allocation, and cross-functional value creation efforts.
We are seeking an Associate to own and support a range of strategic and analytical workstreams. This role provides regular exposure to senior leadership and business unit executives and the opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams including Finance, Product, Operations, and Legal.
The Associate will contribute to evaluating strategic opportunities, supporting transaction processes, and developing financial models, valuation analyses, and analytical frameworks used to inform major strategic and capital allocation decisions across the company.
Responsibilities:
The Associate will contribute to a range of strategic and transaction-related initiatives, including:
- Strategic Analysis: Develop financial and operational analyses to support key decision-making. Build financial models and analytical frameworks used to evaluate acquisitions, partnerships, and internal strategic initiatives
- Transaction Execution: Support the evaluation and execution of M&A transactions, strategic investments, and partnerships. Contribute to valuation analysis, financial due diligence, and coordination of cross-functional diligence workstreams (Legal, HR, Product, Finance, etc.)
- Executive Materials: Prepare investment memoranda, transaction summaries, strategic analyses, and presentation materials used in discussions with senior leadership to support key strategic and capital allocation decisions
- Pipeline Development: Help maintain the company’s deal pipeline by identifying, screening, and evaluating potential acquisition targets and strategic opportunities. Conduct market research and competitive analysis to support opportunity assessment
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field
- Experience: 2 - 5 years in a relevant analytical role
- Typical backgrounds include: investment banking, private equity, venture capital, consulting, transaction / deal advisory, valuation, corporate finance / financial planning and analysis
Skills: strong financial modeling and analytical capabilities, experience building financial models and conducting valuation analysis, ability to synthesize complex information and communicate insights clearly, strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple workstreams, comfort working cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
About Us:
Cloud Software Group is one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value passion for technology and the courage to take risks. Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.
Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.
Cloud Software Group will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history and conduct the recruiting process in accordance with the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and San Diego Fair Chance Ordinance. For access to the laws see the following links: California FCA and Los Angeles FCO.
If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process, please contact us via the Bridge portal for assistance.
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