Strategic M&A Analyst — Growth & Valuation

Univar Solutions; The Woodlands (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Salary reviews

Competitive pay and benefits

Job summary

Univar Solutions is seeking an M&A Analyst to support the coordination and execution of the company's strategic growth program, including due diligence, deal tracking, and post-closing integration. The role collaborates with the VP of M&A and the Europe-based Director of M&A, delivering financial models, risk analyses, and strategic recommendations to senior management across business lines.

Candidates bring 3+ years in finance, investment banking, consulting, private equity, or corporate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related field; MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience within finance, investment banking, corporate development and/or private equity or similar.

Responsibilities

• Perform extensive financial/valuation analyses for acquisition targets.
• Build advanced financial models to value potential and actual target opportunities, leveraging broad understanding of valuation and broad finance/accounting topics.
• Lead due diligence, research, analysis and documentation of potential and active projects.
• Actively participates in presentation development to highlight financial analysis and diligence findings.
• Actively participate in project meetings with key stakeholders.
• Identify improvements to processes and propose solutions to complete tasks more efficiently.
• Advise and support deal teams in development, presentation and reporting out key project milestones.
• Supports the execution of strategic initiatives in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders including preparation of biweekly pipeline development.
• Researches and analyzes company and industry financial and operating information.
• Integrates information from multiple sources to enable more efficient processes, enhanced analysis, and/or streamlined reporting.
• Delivers financial modeling to support strategic recommendations to clients.
• Thinks creatively and proposes new solutions.
• Works mostly independently but comfortable asking for help.

Skills

Financial modeling

M&A due diligence

Deal valuation

Excel modeling

Presentation skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Work ethic

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business or related field

MBA preferred

Tools

Excel

Job description

Univar Solutions is seeking an M&A Analyst to support the coordination and execution of the company's strategic growth program, including due diligence, deal tracking, and post-closing integration. The role collaborates with the VP of M&A and the Europe-based Director of M&A, delivering financial models, risk analyses, and strategic recommendations to senior management across business lines.

Candidates bring 3+ years in finance, investment banking, consulting, private equity, or corporate