CDO Associate

Nokia; Finland; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia seeks an Associate to provide the analytical foundation for Corporate Development. You will support senior leaders, including the Chief of Staff and the Director, Corporate Development, and contribute to analysis and materials for the Executive Committee and Board.

In a fast-paced AI-first environment, you will build AI-enabled tooling, agents, scripts and data pipelines that speed analyses while maintaining full auditability, covering the full transaction lifecycle from screening to

Qualifications

• 2 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, or corporate development.
• Finance/economics/quantitative degree required.
• Strong financial modelling capability with a first-principles valuation approach.
• Excellent executive communication and concise presentation to senior audiences.
• Fluency with AI tools and ability to build tooling/automation.
• Comfort with ambiguity and ability to scope open-ended questions independently.
• Fluent English; Finnish is a bonus, not required.

Responsibilities

• Build valuation and transaction models (DCF, comps, accretion/dilution, LBO, synergy cases, scenario analysis).
• Translate analysis into executive-ready presentations for senior decision-makers.
• Conduct market, competitor, and target screening; size markets and underpin strategic options.
• Support live transactions end-to-end: screening, diligence coordination, business case development, integration input.
• Prepare Executive Committee and Board materials with the Chief of Staff under tight deadlines.
• Develop AI-enabled tooling and automation to convert filings into usable data and accelerate modelling while ensuring auditability.

Skills

Financial modelling

Executive communication

AI tooling experience

Fluent English

Ambiguity tolerance

Stakeholder management

Education

Finance or Economics degree

Industrial Engineering & Management degree

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

As an Associate, you will provide the analytical foundation for that work. You will support the senior leaders of the CDO organization, working most closely with the Chief of Staff and the Director, Corporate Development, and contributing to the analysis and materials presented to the Executive Committee and the Board.

Nokia Corporate Development works AI-first. You will be expected to use frontier AI models daily and to develop your own tooling - agents, scripts and automated data pipelines that increase the team's speed and analytical reach.

The role offers significant exposure: a small team, senior stakeholders and material decisions, with visibility across the full transaction lifecycle from initial screening to completion.

• Build valuation and transaction models, including DCF, trading and transaction comparables, accretion/dilution, LBO, synergy cases and scenario analysis
• Translate analysis into executive-ready presentations for senior decision-makers
• Conduct market, competitor and target screening; size markets and develop the fact base underpinning strategic options
• Support live transactions end to end, covering target screening, diligence coordination, business case development and integration planning input
• Prepare Executive Committee and Board materials alongside the Chief of Staff, frequently to short timelines
• Develop AI-enabled tooling and automation; agents, structured prompt workflows and scripts that convert filings and documents into usable data, and apply AI to accelerate modelling and presentation work while maintaining full auditability
  

You have:

• Approximately 2 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, or corporate development
• Degree in finance, industrial engineering and management, economics or a comparable quantitative discipline
• Strong financial modelling capability: able to build a valuation model from first principles, structure it for third-party review and substantiate each assumption
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to structure a clear argument and convey it concisely to a senior audience
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools, evidenced by tooling or workflows you have built, together with sound judgement on the limitations of model output
• Comfort with ambiguity and with senior stakeholders, including the ability to scope an open-ended question independently and return with a considered view
• Fluent English; Finnish is an advantage but not a requirement

Nice to have:

• Exposure to telecommunications, networks or technology-sector transactions
• Experience preparing Board or Executive Committee materials
• Working knowledge of Python or SQL sufficient to automate recurring analytical tasks
  

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