Senior Director, M&A Finance (Solventum)

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Job Description:

Job Title: Sr. Director, M&A Finance

3M Health Care is now Solventum

At Solventum, we enable better, smarter, safer healthcare to improve lives. As a new company with a long legacy of creating breakthrough solutions for our customers’ toughest challenges, we pioneer game-changing innovations at the intersection of health, material and data science that change patients' lives for the better while enabling healthcare professionals to perform at their best. Because people, and their wellbeing, are at the heart of every scientific advancement we pursue.

We partner closely with the brightest minds in healthcare to ensure that every solution we create melds the latest technology with compassion and empathy. Because at Solventum, we never stop solving for you.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role
This Sr. Director, M&A Finance will support the Senior Vice President, M&A Finance in finance-specific workstreams related to Merger & Acquisitions, and will partner closely with the Chief Strat and Corp. Dev. Officer’s organization. As a Sr. Director, M&A Finance you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world.

Here, you will make an impact by:

• Partner with SVP, M&A Finance and Chief Strat and Corp. Dev Officer on search, evaluation, diligence, negotiation, and execution of deals   

• Lead deal model compilation, forecasting, and valuation efforts, including Solventum pro forma modeling

  • Ensure connectivity and triangulation between deal model, internal forecasts, and overall valuation

  • Cross-functional collaboration with various stakeholders to understand financial and deal value ramifications

• Lead M&A due diligence activities for finance:

  • Data room population and reviews

  • Coordination of financial diligence calls and related preparation, including agendas

  • Manage finance deliverables and milestones within the broader deal timeline    

  • Support negotiations and purchase agreement drafting

  • Coordinate with M&A advisors (e.g., financial due diligence firms)

• Create M&A playbook specific to finance, outlining approach to buy and sell-side financial diligence

  • Standardize templates for deal model forecasting and valuation

  • Standardize templates for due diligence requests and management agendas

• Partner with Investment Bankers to understand marketplace M&A trends, specifically valuations, and maintain a database of recent transaction precedents

Your Skills and Expertise 

To set you up for success in this role from day one, Solventum requires (at a minimum) the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited university and 10 years of Finance experience in private, public, government or military environment

• 5+ years of M&A experience

• Strong command of financial modeling; ability to build clean, dynamic excel models and present outcomes in an executive summary format

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:

• A master’s degree in finance or business from an accredited institution

• CMA, CPA, or CFA certification

• A background in investment banking or advisory or consulting services, including big 4

• Ability to “think outside the box” and embraced continuous change.

• Outstanding integrity, initiative, creativity, and passion

Work location: Remote

Travel: May include up to 15% domestic/international

Relocation Assistance: Is not author