CDO Associate: AI-Driven Valuation & Board-Ready Strategy

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

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