Lead M&A origination and corporate development across BFSI segments. Responsibilities include market mapping, acquisition pipeline development, target identification, relationship building, investment thesis creation, transaction evaluation, due diligence coordination, valuation, negotiations, and transaction execution. The role partners with senior leadership, finance, legal, risk, business teams, and external advisors to identify and close strategic acquisition opportunities.
This role is for one of Weekday’s clients
Min Experience: 9+ years
Location: NCR
JobType: full-time
As a senior leader in M&A and Corporate Development, you will play a key role in shaping the organization's inorganic growth strategy. You will independently lead deal origination, conduct market and industry mapping, identify potential acquisition targets, and build a high-quality pipeline aligned with the organization's strategic priorities.
The ideal candidate will combine strong BFSI industry knowledge with proven expertise in M&A, corporate development, deal origination, and stakeholder management.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Lead M&A origination across segments within the BFSI industry, identifying opportunities that align with the organization's strategic and growth objectives.
- Develop and maintain a robust acquisition pipeline across banking, NBFCs, insurance, fintech, wealth management, asset management, lending, payments, and other relevant financial services segments.
- Conduct comprehensive market and industry mapping to identify emerging businesses, attractive sub-sectors, consolidation opportunities, and potential acquisition targets.
- Originate and evaluate potential transactions through extensive market research, industry intelligence, professional networks, and relationship building.
- Build and maintain relationships with promoters, founders, CXOs, investment bankers, private equity investors, advisors, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Develop investment theses and preliminary business cases for potential acquisition opportunities.
- Work closely with internal leadership, strategy, finance, legal, risk, and business teams to assess strategic fit and transaction feasibility.
- Coordinate with advisors and external stakeholders during due diligence, valuation, negotiations, and transaction structuring.
- Track competitive M&A activity, industry consolidation, regulatory developments, and market trends to identify new opportunities.
- Prepare and present opportunity assessments, transaction rationale, market intelligence, and pipeline updates to senior leadership.
- Support negotiations and transaction execution from initial discussions through signing and closure.
- Develop a structured framework for continuously sourcing and prioritizing potential acquisition opportunities.
Must-Have Skills
- M&A
- Corporate Development
- Deal Origination
- Strong understanding of the BFSI industry and financial services ecosystem
- Proven experience in building and managing an acquisition pipeline
- Strong market and industry mapping capabilities
- Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills
- Strong commercial, analytical, and strategic thinking
Good-to-Have Skills
- Merger & Acquisition
- Merger and Acquisition
- Merger
- Experience across multiple BFSI segments
- Exposure to transaction advisory, investment banking, private equity, or corporate strategy
- Experience working with senior executives, promoters, investors, and transaction advisors
Experience
9–15 years of relevant experience in M&A, Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Strategy, Private Equity, or related functions, with significant exposure to deal origination and transaction opportunities within BFSI.
The candidate should demonstrate a strong track record of identifying strategic opportunities, developing acquisition pipelines, building senior-level relationships, and contributing to successful M&A transactions.
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