M&A Strategy & Growth Associate

Align; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare, Dental, Vision

401(k) with employer matching

Competitive bonus structure

Home office reimbursement

Certification reimbursement

Paid time off

Summer hours

Job summary

A-LIGN is seeking an M&A Corporate Development Associate to execution all aspects of the M&A process, from sourcing opportunities to due diligence and integration planning. You will build sophisticated financial models, support transaction execution, and provide strategic analysis to drive growth.

You will report to the SVP of FP&A and collaborate with senior leadership across deal teams, structuring transactions, and preparing materials for investment committees.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• 2–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, or corporate development.
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills.

Responsibilities

• Help manage the end-to-end M&A process, coordinating internal stakeholders, advisors, and external counterparties to keep deals on timeline.
• Review CIMs, management presentations, and data rooms; synthesize findings into clear investment theses and recommendations.
• Build and maintain financial models, including valuation, LBO/return analysis, and buy-side and synergy cases to support deal evaluation.
• Build and maintain the acquisition pipeline; proactively source and screen targets with A-LIGN senior leadership.
• Lead relationships with investment bankers, brokers, and intermediaries to surface and track opportunities.
• Lead and coordinate diligence workstreams, including financial, commercial, legal, technical, and HR diligence activities.
• Prepare investment committee and board materials, including target overviews, deal memos, and recommendation decks.
• Support negotiation, structuring, and execution activities, including LOIs, purchase agreements, and integration planning in partnership with deal counsel.
• Maintain pipeline trackers, market maps, and competitive landscape analyses across A-LIGN’s core and adjacent markets.
• Partner with corporate strategy on build-vs-buy analysis, new-service and new-market opportunity sizing, and post-close integration tracking.

Education

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

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

A-LIGN is seeking an M&A Corporate Development Associate to execution all aspects of the M&A process, from sourcing opportunities to due diligence and integration planning. You will build sophisticated financial models, support transaction execution, and provide strategic analysis to drive growth.

You will report to the SVP of FP&A and collaborate with senior leadership across deal teams, structuring transactions, and preparing materials for investment committees.