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We provide trusted, objective advice and outstanding execution for companies around the world. If this resonates with your approach, then you’ll soon feel welcomed and valued. It is our global approach to clients, transactions and project work, that creates diverse, inclusive teams that support our business and each other.

We believe that our employees are critical to our success and are our most valuable asset. We seek individuals who have a winning track record of delivering innovative solutions and being a trusted partner to their clients. We invite you to explore global opportunities with us.

  • M&A Associate at BDA Ho Chi Minh City

    Role of the Associate

    BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Associate for its HCMC office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

    The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

    As well as having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance, Associates should be able to identify and vet potential buyers from pitch materials and support sector teams in developing various client ready materials.

     

    Responsibilities

    Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, an Associate’s work will typically cover the following:

    • Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
    • Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
    • Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
    • Assisting senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence
    • Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale leaseback agreements, asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents and deal marketing materials
    • Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
    • Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis
    • Attend and participate collaboratively in meetings with client’s senior team members
    • A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

     

    Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

    • Strong quantitative and accounting skills – Having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance and should be able to guide and support juniors in financial modeling
    • Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
    • Strong client management skills – ability to earn the trust and respect of client teams such that clients contact him/her first for daily tasks
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
    • Mentorship/Coaching skills – able to facilitate more effective delivery by working with junior team to improve performance
    • Professional proficiency in English required
    • Additional foreign language fluency (Japanese, Cantonese, Korean) welcomed but not required
    • Willingness to travel

     

    Interested candidates should submit a brief cover letter and a CV to: HCMC recruit

    All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

  • M&A Analyst at BDA Ho Chi Minh City

    Role of the Analyst

    BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Analyst for its Ho Chi Minh City office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to gain broad, hands-on advisory experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

    The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

     

    Responsibilities

    • Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
    • Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
    • Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
    • Assist senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence
    • Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale leaseback agreements, asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents, and deal marketing materials
    • Conduct due diligence and assess sellers’ and targets’ business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
    • Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis
    • Attend and participate collaboratively in meetings with clients’ senior team members
    • Fulfil a wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

     

    Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

    • Strong quantitative and accounting skills
    • Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
    • Effective client management skills
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
    • Well versed in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint, knowledge of building a financial model and pitchbook creation
    • Professional proficiency in English
    • Willingness to travel

    Interested candidates should apply using the following link: here

    All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

     

  • M&A Vice President at BDA New York

    Role of the Vice President

    BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated Vice President for its New York office. BDA provides an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

    The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

    As well as having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance, Associates should be able to identify and vet potential buyers from pitch materials and support sector teams in developing various client ready materials.

     

    Responsibilities

    Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, an Vice President’s work will typically cover the following:

    • Direct and manage the work of Associates and Analysts on the execution of international Mergers &
      Acquisitions (M&A) and divestments transactions from company valuation analysis and conducting due
      diligence to deal structuring and negotiations.
    • Maintain effective relationships with existing clients on behalf of the company.
    • Design and conduct training and performance evaluations of Associates and Analysts.
    • Develop market data in international M&A and accordingly advise clients on current and future
      financial status of their respective transactions.
    • Source opportunities for M&A transactions and actively develop new clients and credentials while
      actively participating in sectors class and related marketing activities.
    • Analyze risks and impacts of client companies’ M&A transactions.
    • Review M&A transaction reports and industry views, analyze market conditions, and provide feedback
      and suggestions to Associate/Analyst.
    • Review and optimize the financial models built by Associate/Analyst and provide valuation guidance to
      clients for M&A transactions.
    • Serve as central point for coordination internally and externally with clients, co-advisors, lawyers,
      accountants as well as potential transaction counterparties; liaise with external advisors on valuation and
      strategy.
    • Lead the team to prepare pitch books and transaction materials, including Teasers, Process Letters,
      Information Memorandums, Term Sheets, Stock/Asset Purchase Agreements.

     

    Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

    • Master’s Degree (or foreign equivalent) in Finance or related fields and three years of work experience as an Associate, Analyst or related
    • Strong quantitative and accounting skills – Having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance and should be able to guide and challenge juniors in financial modeling
    • Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
    • Strong client management skills – ability to earn the trust and respect of client teams such that clients contact him/her first for daily tasks
    • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
    • Strong leadership mindset – able to facilitate more effective delivery by working with junior team to improve performance
    • Willingness to travel

     

    Interested candidates should submit a brief cover letter and a CV to New York Recruit.

    All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

  • Marketing Specialist at BDA Hong Kong

    Marketing Specialist role

    BDA Partners has been growing significantly in the past few years, and we have ambitious growth plans moving forward.

    The Marketing Specialist is a global, pivotal role, working across all nine offices of the BDA network. This new role will suit a person who has the dedication to achieve successful outcomes in a dynamic and changeable environment, while being meticulous and independent. The ideal candidate for the role will be someone who enjoys developing and improving processes and has a structured, data-driven approach to problem-solving and has an aptitude for working with a diverse team with different work styles, across many time zones.

    The role will report directly to the Marketing Director, and work closely with and the wider operations team, deal teams and local office administrators.

    Experience in marketing, communications and/or events from Financial Services or another professional services firm is key, M&A experience a plus.

     

    Responsibilities

    The prime responsibilities of the role are to ensure the smooth daily functioning of the marketing activities, supporting the Marketing Director in building out the firm’s marketing and communications capabilities.

    Events

    • Assist with the planning and execution of both virtual and on-site BDA events
    • Produce all relevant material, including invitations, content and event branding
    • Seek sponsorship and conference opportunities
    • Provide analysis to track success

     

    Content

    • Draft and proof-read M&A deals transaction announcement
    • Review and summarise insight pieces and case studies
    • Create and distribute internal communications

     

    Digital

    • Create engaging posts on social media
    • Update and improve the BDA website
    • Track and increase traffic and rankings for both website (SEO & SEM) and social channels
    • Update intranet and internal portals
    • Keep the internal and external distribution lists current

    Branding

    • Review and provide recommendations to enhance BDA’s image library
    • Be a brand ambassador to ensure consistent branding firm wide, across PPT, brochures, invitations, social media posts, etc.

     

    Miscellaneous

    • Manage daily administrative tasks to ensure the marketing department runs smoothly
    • Conduct market research to identify new opportunities
    • Keep organized records of marketing metrics and results of past campaigns
    • Monitor competitors’ marketing activities
    • Monthly admin calls / admin coordination
    • Support with other marketing projects that may arise

      

    Essential competencies

    Technical

    • Fluent or native in English
    • 4-5 years of marketing experience from a similar type of professional services firm
    • Experience in marketing systems. Some of the programs we use at BDA include Salesforce, Pardot, UpSlide, WordPress and Photoshop

     

    Personal

    • Attention to detail
    • Continuous improvement mindset
    • Effective communication
    • Effective meeting management
    • Presentation skills
    • Analytical skills with goal-oriented attitude
    • Problem solving
    • Self-initiative
    • Critical thinking
    • Team player
    • Effective project management
    • Integrity

     

    Flexible work arrangements

    BDA is committed to providing flexible work arrangements to employees. All employees benefit from having one fixed day working from home per week and employees can also request to work away from the office for up to two weeks per year. The flexible arrangements need to be agreed with their manager in advance so that the needs and objectives of both the organisation and the employee can be met.

    For all enquiries, please contact Marketing at BDA –  marketing_recruit@bdapartners.com