Acquisitions Associate

Job description

About Everfield Everfield is a platform with a mission of acquiring, building and operating vertical market and specialist software companies, focused on European businesses. We invest in and provide support and best practices to software companies for them to live up to their full potential by offering a very established approach to promote growth. Everfield is looking to be the leader in European Vertical and specialist software solutions across myriad niche industries that provide mission-critical applications, services, and support to their clients. Everfield seeks to deliver innovation and growth to its acquired companies by providing best practices and operational support to help identify opportunities and install proven methodologies to accelerate customer and market share. Everfield is located throughout Europe, with offices in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Poland and Spain. Responsibilities - Identify and connect with vertical software businesses across diverse sectors. Initiate and maintain outreach and communication with potential targets, their owners, and stakeholders (incl. proper management of all CRM processes) - Collect and analyse data from various sources to effectively assess potential targets - Build strong relationships with CEOs, investment bankers, and industry veterans to facilitate connections with target companies - Represent Everfield in meetings with CEOs and at trade shows/conferences, with frequent travel - Prepare valuations (incl. full financial model) and conduct comprehensive analyses during the origination and due diligence processes - Lead and manage operationally all workstreams within the due diligence process from A-to-Z, including Finance, Tax, Tech, Legal and Commercial - Support and learn in legal and structuring aspects of the transaction - Develop/revise transaction materials, as well as documentation for investment committee purposes - Ensure all company information, calls, outreach activity is consistently and with high-quality saved in the CRM - Prepare and start negotiating SPA and other legal documents (i.e. employment agreements) with selling parties together with Acquisitions Manager - Manage and co-ordinate internal Everfield resources to ensure smooth integration and hand over of completed acquisitions - Support in in presenting (your) targets vis-a-vis Everfield management and our investor - Experience - At least 2-3 years of experience with evaluating companies in corporate development or at an investment bank, private equity or growth equity firm (in all cases, ideally with focus on tech / software) Competencies Professional - Familiar with every component and step of a transaction process, from sourcing through execution to closing - Strong analytical and financial skills - Expert in Excel and PowerPoint - Proficient in corporate finance and valuation, including software-specific valuations and metrics - Enables and leverages AI in daily work Personal - Understanding of and curiosity about software and technology - Tenacious, energetic, and outgoing personality - Able to adhere to processes while helping the team continuously improve and adapt them over time - Hands-on, able to work independently and autonomously, with a collaborative team spirit - Entrepreneurial and international mindset - Proactive by nature — wants to do more than the role requires, with an inherent eagerness to stay fully up to speed on all topics and to let the team shine Process - TA Screening call - Interview with Hiring Manager - Case study - Interview with Head of Acquisitions