Buy-Side M&A Advisor

Village Wellth; Calgary; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Village Wellth, a tech-enabled platform helping Canadians buy businesses, seeks a Buy-Side M&A Advisor who provides transaction judgment, structuring, modelling, and diligence while coaching clients through high-stakes processes. This client-facing role focuses on guiding acquirers from target evaluation to signed terms with confidence.

You will evaluate targets, coach LOI negotiations, structure deals, build models, run diligence, and ensure terms are financeable, maintaining clear

Qualifications

• 5+ years in M&A advisory, investment banking, PE, corporate development, or transaction services.
• Strong modelling skills and ability to structure and value deals.
• Experience negotiating LOIs and transaction documents.
• Ability to coach clients through complex, high-stakes processes.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate acquisition targets surfaced through sourcing and client pipelines; shape deals.
• Guide clients through LOI negotiation, prepare positions, and engage advisors.
• Structure deals, terms, and pricing to satisfy client, seller, and lender.
• Build and maintain financial models on the platform to drive go/no-go and offers.
• Lead diligence workstreams and flag risks affecting terms or valuation.
• Test financeability with Debt Advisor to avoid non-financeable terms.
• Keep clients informed on status, risks, and next steps.

Skills

Client coaching

M&A advisory

Financial modelling

LOI negotiation

Job description

Village Wellth is a tech-enabled platform that helps Canadians buy their next business, end-to-end, from search to close. We bring the clients, the deal flow, and the financing relationships; our advisors bring transaction expertise.

The Buy-Side M&A Advisor provides the transaction judgment behind every deal, structuring, modelling, and diligence, while coaching the client through it. You won't sit across the table in the client's place; you'll prepare them to negotiate well, shape the terms and structure, and stay close throughout so they move from evaluating targets to signed terms with confidence. This is a client-facing role: clear communication and the ability to guide a first-time or seasoned acquirer through a high-stakes process is central to the role.

Compensation: monthly work-fee advance/retainer + per-deal success fee on close

What you'll do

• Evaluate acquisition targets surfaced through our sourcing engine and clients' own pipelines; you're assessing and shaping deals, not cold-originating from zero
• Guide the client through LOI negotiation — preparing positions, coaching them at the table, and engaging sellers' advisors where it helps
• Structure deals, pricing, terms, and structure that work for client, seller, and lender
• Build and maintain financial models on the platform that drive the go/no-go and the offer
• Run point on diligence workstreams and flag risks that move terms or valuation
• Pressure-test financeability with our Debt Advisor before LOI, so we the client doesn’t sign terms that can't be financed
• Keep clients informed and moving: status, risks, next steps

What you bring

• Ability to coach and communicate; you can guide a client through a complex, emotional, fast-moving process and keep them clear-headed and focused.
• Track record in M&A, private equity, or business acquisition, ideally buy-side
• Strong modelling and comfort with structuring and valuation
• Experience negotiating LOIs and transaction documents
• Sound judgment under time pressure; deals move fast, and terms shift
• Comfort working part-time and async, with responsiveness during active deals

How success is measured

• Deals reaching signed terms and closing
• Quality and durability of negotiated terms

Qualifications

Required: 5+ years in M&A advisory, investment banking, PE, corporate development, or transaction services; strong modelling; experience negotiating acquisitions and conducting financial diligence; working understanding of purchase agreements and deal structures.

Preferred: CPA, CFA, or CBV; experience with ETA / entrepreneur-acquisition transactions; mid-market experience.