MCASPHALT | Senior Manager - Corporate Development

Colas Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading construction and maintenance company in Ontario is seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate Development, to shape its growth strategy. This role requires strong financial planning and analysis skills, extensive experience in M&A evaluation, and the ability to collaborate with executive leadership on key business initiatives. The ideal candidate will have 6–10 years of experience in corporate development and strong communication skills to present financial concepts to non-financial stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of experience in corporate development, private equity, investment banking, or strategy consulting.
• Experience in complex organizations or high growth companies.
• Strong financial modeling skills and ability to communicate concepts to non-financial stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and analyze business models for planning and investment scenarios.
• Support due diligence and integration planning.
• Analyze business performance drivers across revenue and capital efficiency.

Skills

Financial planning & analysis (FP&A)

M&A evaluation

Operational efficiency

Financial modeling

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or Business

MBA, CFA or CBV preferred

Tools

Excel

Power BI

JD Edwards

Job description

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 our investments, optimizing our business footprint, conducting business performance analysis and providing executive leadership with data-driven insights.

Duties and 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