Corporate Development Analyst

This is a remote role working for Lawfront.  

Job Purpose:

The primary purpose of this role is to work closely with the Corporate Development Director to increase the velocity of Lawfront acquisition activity. This role will closely on the valuation and financial modelling of current and future acquisition targets.

This role is focused upon delivering:

• Financial analysis and insight:  Aggregating and assessing financial information from multiple sources to provide an accurate appraisal of deal viability, risk, and opportunity.
• Lead advisory:  Supporting the Corporate Development Director to identify gaps, or inconsistencies requiring further analysis or data gathering to complete robust pre offer assessment processes.
• Integration:  Gathering information from multiple sources, consolidating, and summarizing key trends in preparation for financial due diligence.

Professional Experience:

2 years PQE, plus experience in a financial accounting role, preferably with audit and exposure to corporate finance and due diligence processes. 

This experience will have been sufficient to build outstanding numerical and analytical skill and ability to deliver complex data sets to a sophisticated stakeholder group.

A proven track record of transaction experience (buy side) including experience with valuation, financial due diligence, and financial modelling.

Sector or industry experience in business or professional services, experience gained in legal services, or a large professional services practise would be advantageous.

Exceptional analytical skills and a high level of proficiency with excel.

Personal Attributes

Result Orientation:  Demonstrates a commitment to the achievement of results, consistently delivers high quality work against agreed deadlines

Situational Agility:  Capacity to adapt their style to the situation, adjusting their approach or methodology to reflect the unique characteristics of each business opportunity.

Autonomy & Independence:  Ability to leverage sound judgement and expertise to determine the best way to deliver the target outcome.  This includes a confidence in their own judgement and ability to deliver; working independently yet collaboratively with others.

Ethics:  Consistently demonstrates strong personal values which align with Lawfront’s ethos and approach, reflect the highest professional standards which engender trust and respect from others.

Competitive drive:  Possesses a strong commercial acumen and drive to achieve results in a competitive process, thrives in an environment where they play a critical role in taking strategic business decisions.

Principal Responsibilities

1. To assemble and summarise all forms of financial data to provide sophisticated reports on financial status and risk on each acquisition target.                                                                                                                                                                                  
2. To deliver data backed reports which evaluate historical and current financial data to understand a firm’s financial condition and measure the financial risk associated with the potential investment decision.                                                                                     
3. Communicating with professional advisors, stakeholders, and existing firm ownership to gather the data, insights, and commercial context necessary to provide robust financial and commercial analysis of business performance.                                   
4. Undertake research to identify and locate any additional data to ensure a comprehensive understanding of firm financial performance, competitive positioning, and potential opportunities.                                                                                                       
5. To complete financial modelling necessary to analyse investment opportunities and fit within Lawfront’s existing investment portfolio, this may involve working with other subject matter experts in governance, operations and people and culture.                    
6. To take the lead advisory role on small acquisitions (merge-ins), driving the acquisition and integration processes, supported by the Corporate Development Director.                                                                                                                                                   
7. To prepare all the necessary reports and documentation to support the investment decision, this includes papers or reports required by Lawfront executive, CEO and investors.                                                                                                                            
8. To support the completion of successful acquisitions including participation (as required) in the integration phase, to ensure the value of the transaction is realised and risks and impact of issues identified through financial, and tax due diligence are mitigated.  This may include working closely with integration leads to ensure the success of the transition.                                         
9. To maintain data integrity and high standards of data quality pre and post deal to ensure robust ROI analysis can be undertaken, this requires maintenance of all databases, contracts, deal documents and associated paperwork.                                                     
10. Beyond the financial analysis, to support the Corporate Development Director as required with wider aspects of deal preparation or facets of the deal process eg support on legal due diligence.