Deal Origination Senior Manager – M&A Strategy & Growth

EY; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Career development

8 weeks flex leave per year

Parental leave (gender-neutral)

Job summary

EY-Parthenon in Australia and New Zealand is seeking a Senior Manager, Deal Origination to lead the Deal Origination Hub. You’ll identify attractive acquisition targets, develop credible M&A theses, and convert market intelligence into opportunities.

You’ll engage with business owners, private equity investors and advisers, manage a small origination team, and apply data, AI and analytics to improve screening and pipeline outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in M&A or related fields.
• Strong commercial judgement and analytical capability.
• Ability to lead relationships with business owners, investors and advisers.

Responsibilities

• Originate and qualify M&A opportunities by identifying attractive businesses, acquisition targets and transaction themes, assessing strategic fit and developing credible transaction or commercial theses.
• Develop acquisition theses by combining sector analysis, company intelligence and commercial judgement to identify attractive acquisition opportunities.
• Engage directly with the market, including business owners, private equity investors, advisers and other market participants, to develop relationships and opportunities.
• Support priority private equity accounts and targeted origination campaigns, including understanding investment strategies, mapping portfolio companies and identifying credible acquisition and bolt-on opportunities across priority accounts, sectors and market themes.
• Build new-to-EY relationships and identify opportunities within EY’s existing relationships, working with account teams and Partners to develop transaction hypotheses, appropriate approaches and routes to decision-makers.
• Lead the day-to-day operation of the Deal Origination Hub, setting priorities, allocating work and developing team members; overseeing the origination intelligence platform and pipeline; using data, technology and AI to improve origination; and working across EY-Parthenon and broader EY teams to convert originated opportunities into pursuits and mandates.

Skills

M&A experience

Corporate finance

Deal origination

Private equity

Corporate development

Stakeholder management

Job description

EY-Parthenon in Australia and New Zealand is seeking a Senior Manager, Deal Origination to lead the Deal Origination Hub. You’ll identify attractive acquisition targets, develop credible M&A theses, and convert market intelligence into opportunities.

You’ll engage with business owners, private equity investors and advisers, manage a small origination team, and apply data, AI and analytics to improve screening and pipeline outcomes.