M&A Corporate Development Associate

Job Description

M&A Corporate Development Associate | A-LIGN

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at A-LIGN. A-LIGN is the leading provider of high-quality, efficient cybersecurity compliance programs, offering a wide breadth of services including SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST, FedRAMP, and PCI. This role is crucial for executing corporate development and acquisition activities, providing analytical and strategic support to help drive the company’s continued growth.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time

• Team: Reports to the SVP of Financial Planning and Analysis
• Mission: This person executes corporate development and acquisition activities, providing analytical and strategic support to drive the company’s continued growth.
• Tech Stack: Excel, PowerPoint

What You’ll Actually Do
• Process Management: Manage the end-to-end M&A process, coordinating internal stakeholders, advisors, and external counterparties.
• Evaluation: Review confidential information and synthesize findings into clear investment theses and recommendations.
• Financial Modeling: Build and maintain financial models, including valuation, LBO/return analysis, and buyside and synergy cases, to support deal evaluation.
• Sourcing & Pipeline: Build and maintain the acquisition pipeline and proactively source and screen targets with A-LIGN senior leadership.
• Diligence Leadership: Lead and coordinate diligence workstreams, including financial, commercial, legal, technical, and HR diligence activities.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, or a related field.
• Experience: 2–3 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, or corporate development, with demonstrated exposure to M&A processes including diligence, valuation, execution, and sourcing.
• Skills: Strong financial modeling and valuation skills; excellent written and analytical skills; advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; highly organized self-starter able to manage multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders under deadline pressure; excellent communication skills; thrives in a high-activity environment.