Director, Analysis

Join a motivated and high-performance team responsible for analysis and due diligence of acquisition targets in the financial services industry.

**The Director, Analysis & Diligence, Corporate Development will**:

- Gain a holistic understanding of the business to appropriately scope the diligence effort associated with a given transaction, maximize the relevance of analyses and accuracy of financial projections, and identify material and germane risks to transaction value.

- Conduct financial analyses, including determining economics of the target business on a standalone basis and preparing a financial forecast for the target as part of People Corporation.

- Filter for material and relevant risks, work with relevant stakeholders and providers to identify a path to solution.

- Day-to-day ownership of assigned diligence projects, including ensuring timely and efficient progress of the diligence project by leveraging and coordinating with relevant stakeholders as well as internal and external resources.

- Oversee confirmatory diligence workstreams such as IT, compliance, tax.

- Support end-to-end transaction success through knowledge transfer to relevant stakeholders.

**To be successful as a Director, Analysis & Diligence, Corporate Development with People Corporation, you will need**:

- 8+ years of professional experience in accounting, finance, or investment fields.

- Track record of successful project leadership or workstream ownership.

- Command of applicable finance and accounting concepts such as free cash flow/EBITDA, one-time v. recurring items, net working capital, and similar.

- Post-graduate professional education such as CPA, CBV, CFA, MBA, P.Eng., or comparable designations or experience.

- Proficiency with MS Office with strong Excel capabilities.

- Ability to advance multiple workstreams under tight timelines while maintaining quality of work product.

- Ability to coalesce information of various types, formats, sources, etc., to arrive at a holistic and granular understanding of the target business.

- Ability to build on the granular understanding to ‘zoom out’ and focus on the most relevant risks and challenges, finding efficient and practical mitigations and solutions to same.

- Ability to balance following a structured process to ensure consistency while exercising informed professional judgement to deviate from the standard process where appropriate to meet the core purpose.

- Willingness to work in excess of standard working hours to accomplish goals and meet timelines.

- Attention to detail and appreciation of data-informed, commercially-nuanced analysis.

- Ability to communicate effectively both in written and verbal form, tailor communication to audience.

- Leadership experience in due diligence engagements, transaction advisory services, corporate development, or M&A more broadly.

- Experience in financial services distribution.

- French language proficiency.

**What’s in it for you**:

- Work on a high-performing team delivering high-value, impactful outcomes.

- Intellectually stimulating and challenging set of responsibilities, tackling varying and evolving problem sets.

- An understanding of how to analyze a business and insight into what makes a business more/less valuable, risky, etc.

- Direct experience on the buy side of private markets M&A.

- Competitive compensation and benefits package, including retirement plan with company contributions.

At People Corporation we are committed to helping businesses succeed. We are a national provider of benefits, retirement, wealth, wellness, and human resource solutions. Our experts and solutions serve over 20,000 clients representing nearly 3 million Canadians. We offer customized solutions designed to fit the unique needs of businesses and their employees, members, and stakeholders.