Associate, Corporate Development

Description

Arrow International is the world's largest manufacturer and supplier of charitable gaming products and solutions. We produce and distribute a wide array of products including consumables (pull tab tickets, bingo paper and ink, etc.) as well as world class, state-of-the-art, electronic gaming products. Our products are sold, installed, and operated in numerous social and gaming venues around the world. We continue to grow at a record pace and offer this exciting career opportunity to join our team where we are focused on attracting and engaging exceptional talent, empowering colleagues to achieve fulfilling careers, and creating fun and engaging products that are second to none for our customers.

Position Summary

The Associate, Corporate Development will work closely with the Manager, Corporate Development to help drive growth opportunities for Arrow. This is an exciting opportunity to help analyze, assess and execute high profile corporate growth priorities related to all aspects of corporate M&A and strategy. The candidate will spend approximately 80% of their time on the evaluation and execution of acquisitions and 20% on strategic growth projects. A successful candidate must possess demonstrated financial acumen, business analytics, strategic thinking, problem solving and executive communications skills as they will be exposed to executive leadership, the company Board and private equity deal team.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Support a variety of business strategy and development projects through qualitative and quantitative business analysis
• Support corporate development projects including review of potential acquisitions and development of business cases for strategic decisions
• Supporting organic growth initiatives for new market and product launches including forecasting, pricing, return on investment and other key investment criteria
• In collaboration with Arrow leadership, develop and maintain corporate strategic plan and related reporting materials 
• Identify, monitor and track M&A pipeline and stages of discussions with various acquisition targets
• Screen and evaluate new acquisition opportunities
• Perform detailed financial modeling and valuation analysis under direction and support of Manager, Corporate Development
• Coordinates due diligence efforts with cross functional leaders and advisors both internally and externally
• Assist with development of investment memos and board materials supporting material acquisitive and organic investments
• Assist with transaction post-merger integration planning and execution
• Provides support and guidance as required to other corporate business transactions as they arise
• Other related duties as assigned by supervisor

Requirements

Experience and Education

• A minimum of 1 year of experience in corporate development, investment banking, corporate banking, accounting or transaction advisory services
• Ability to build complex valuation models including public comps, DCF and LBO
• Foundational understanding of valuation, corporate finance and accounting concepts
• Work accurately and efficiently within Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business management or a related field