Corporate Development Specialist

3 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom The Financial Times Full time

About the Role

The Financial Times is seeking a highly skilled Corporate Development Specialist to join its Corporate Development & Strategy team. As a key member of the team, you will be responsible for sourcing, supporting, and executing the FT's inorganic and centralized growth initiatives, including M&A, Strategic Partnerships, and special projects to accelerate growth beyond business as usual.

Key Responsibilities

  • Sourcing corporate development opportunities, including acquisition target sourcing and filtering, relationship building, and generating strategic partnership proposals;
  • Improving the FT's corporate development toolkit;
  • Execution of acquisitions and disposals and strategic partnerships, including business valuation modeling, business plan analysis, and pricing, due diligence coordination, contract negotiation, and integration;
  • Assisting with existing internal centralized projects and cross-departmental strategic initiatives;
  • Assisting with strategic projects on a case-by-case basis;
  • Leading the financial and valuation analysis of business opportunities, applying critical thinking to the business case, and how it progresses the FT's strategy, and assisting in the preparation of any documentation required to take the business case to the CFO, CEO, FT Board, and Nikkei for approval.

Requirements

  • Undergraduate degree, ideally in economics, business, finance, or accounting;
  • Confident and experienced in financial modeling, valuation analysis, and business plan and commercial analysis;
  • Demonstrable end-to-end transaction experience;
  • Excellent English oral and written communication skills;
  • Highly numerate, with proven analytical and business and problem-solving skills, with the ability to apply financial analysis to commercial issues;
  • Confident working under own initiative as well as being a strong team player;
  • Outstanding project management skills;
  • Excellent attention to detail, commitment to the job, and a strong results-driven work ethic;
  • Strategy experience is a plus;
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and/or Google Suite.

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