AI-Driven SaaS M&A Analyst

Circeus; Milano; In loco; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Circeus, Milan-based AI-native holding, hires an Investment Analyst to cover the full acquisition cycle from initial founder outreach to signing and integration. You will build analyses, financial models, and diligence findings that feed the investment committee and portfolio strategy.

You will underwrite AI-driven improvements across product depth and cost structures, while staying close to assets post-close.

Competenze

• 1-3 years in M&A, investment banking, private equity, or corporate development.
• Strong financial modelling and valuation skills built from scratch.
• Ability to read a SaaS business quickly: recurring revenue quality, churn, expansion, gross margin, and cash conversion.
• Practical fluency with AI tools in your own workflow, with concrete examples of what you have automated or accelerated.
• Clear written analysis and the confidence to defend a recommendation concisely.
• High attention to detail under deal timelines, with sound judgement on what matters and what does not.
• Fluent English and Italian, written and spoken.
• Right to work in Italy.

Mansioni

• Source and qualify acquisition targets through outbound origination, broker relationships, and proprietary screening.
• Build and own financial models covering valuation, returns, cohort retention, and post-acquisition scenarios.
• Run commercial, financial, and product diligence, and pull the findings into a clear view on the asset.
• Write investment memos and screening notes that stand up to challenge at committee.
• Assess where our central AI platform can expand a target's product and margin, and build that into the underwriting case.
• Build AI-assisted workflows for origination, data extraction, and diligence, and leave the process better than you found it.
• Prepare valuation ranges and support structuring, LOIs, and negotiation with founders and advisers.
• Coordinate external advisers and internal workstreams to keep deals moving to timetable.
• Track portfolio performance against the original underwriting case and flag divergence early.

Conoscenze

M&A

Financial modelling

SaaS knowledge

AI tooling

English fluency

Italian fluency

Strumenti

SQL

Python

Descrizione del lavoro

Circeus, Milan-based AI-native holding, hires an Investment Analyst to cover the full acquisition cycle from initial founder outreach to signing and integration. You will build analyses, financial models, and diligence findings that feed the investment committee and portfolio strategy.

You will underwrite AI-driven improvements across product depth and cost structures, while staying close to assets post-close.