MCASPHALT | Senior Manager - Corporate Development

McAsphalt Industries Limited

Toronto

On-site

CAD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A construction company in Toronto seeks a Senior Manager for Corporate Development. This mid-senior level role focuses on financial modeling, strategic initiatives, and M&A activities. The ideal candidate has 6–10 years in corporate development or investment banking, a strong background in financial analysis, and excellent communication skills. This full-time position offers the chance to influence the company’s growth trajectory and align corporate forecasts with investment strategies.

Qualifications

6–10 years of experience in corporate development, private equity, investment banking, or strategy consulting.
Strong financial modeling skills with full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow projections.
Solid understanding of capital structures, debt financing, and equity returns.
Strong financial modeling skills: full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow projections.

Responsibilities

Build sophisticated business/financial models for decision-making.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams for due diligence and integration planning.
Conduct financial evaluation of M&A and strategic investment opportunities.
Provide data-driven insights and executive-ready presentations.

Skills

Financial analysis

Strategic thinking

Collaboration across functions

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field

MBA, CFA or CBV preferred

Tools

JD Edwards

Power BI

Excel

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Job Purpose

The Senior Manager, Corporate Development, plays a critical role in shaping the company’s long-term growth trajectory. This role partners directly with senior leadership to lead high-impact financial modelling, performance analysis, and decision support for business-critical initiatives. Key accountabilities include business case development, financial modeling for acquisition targets, facility rationalization, and cross-functional projects that drive long-term enterprise value. The role requires a strong background in financial planning & analysis (FP&A), M&A evaluation, and operational efficiency initiatives, with an exceptional ability to synthesize data into actionable insights for executive leadership.

This role will work closely with executive leadership to identify and execute high-impact corporate development initiatives assessing investments, optimizing the business footprint, conducting business performance analysis and providing executive leadership with data-driven insights.

Responsibilities

Strategic & Operational Modeling
- Build sophisticated business/financial models to support long-term planning, expansion decisions, pricing optimization, and market entry scenarios.
- Partner with business unit leaders to conduct “portfolio company”-style analysis on internal business units to identify value creation opportunities and capital efficiency improvements.
- Conduct ROI, NPV, and sensitivity analyses for key strategic initiatives, including new ventures, partnerships, and internal projects.
- Drive facility rationalization and footprint optimization efforts through cost-benefit analysis, footprint optimization, modeling cost structures to enhance operational efficiency and reduce overhead.
Operational & Strategic Support
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Operations, Finance, Legal, HR, etc.) to support due diligence, integration planning, and post-acquisition performance tracking.
- Partner with functional teams and business units to evaluate initiatives that improve margins, streamline operations, or optimize capital deployment.
- Apply structured analysis frameworks (inspired by private equity practices) to assess internal business units for performance improvement opportunities.
- Support internal optimization performance tracking and reporting to ensure alignment with business objectives and modelling.
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Analyze business performance drivers across revenue, cost, margin and capital efficiency.
- Align acquisition and investment activity with corporate forecasts, capital allocation strategy, and financial targets.
- Assist in the development of strategic plans and scenario modeling to support resource allocation, cost optimization, and EBIT growth.
- Benchmark internal performance against market and competitor data to support strategic decision-making.
M&A And Investment Analysis
- Assist in the identification, evaluation, and execution of acquisition opportunities, including financial modeling and preliminary valuation work.
- Lead the financial evaluation of potential M&A and strategic investment opportunities, including market sizing, assessing capital structure, working capital needs, return profiles, and valuation modeling.
- Conduct in-depth due diligence on targets: analyze historical performance, KPIs, margin trends, customer/channel concentration, and operational risk factors.
- Support negotiations by analyzing deal structures, earnouts, and post-close performance metrics.
- Prepare executive-ready presentations and summary documents that outline strategic rationale and financial impact.
Market & Competitive Intelligence
- Track industry and M&A trends to inform strategic decisions and identify potential partnership opportunities and strategic threats.
- Develop benchmarking and market sizing analyses to support strategic planning.
- Develop internal comps databases to track valuation trends and performance benchmarks.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, or related field; MBA, Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) or Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) preferred.
6–10 years of experience in corporate development, private equity, investment banking, or strategy consulting with deep exposure to financial analysis and M&A.
Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations, high growth companies, or industries undergoing transformation.
Solid understanding of capital structures, debt financing, and equity returns.
Strategic thinker with a deep understanding of value creation, operational efficiency and financial levers across the enterprise.
Strong financial modeling skills, including the ability to build full P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow projections.
Ability to collaborate across functions and communicate complex financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
Strong understanding of financial systems, ERPs (ie: JD Edwards preferred) along with experience with data visualization and Power of BI reporting tools.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to present to Executive and C-suite audiences.

Physical requirements

Office related physical demands. Travel may be required on occasion.

Direct reports

None

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