M&A Associate

2 Months ago • 2-4 Years • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

As an M&A Associate at Azerion, you'll manage and coordinate the entire acquisition process, focusing on the execution and due diligence phases. Working closely with the VP M&A, you'll execute transactions supporting corporate strategy, owning each deal from start to finish. Responsibilities include planning and driving due diligence, managing project teams, conducting financial modeling and valuation analyses, pre-negotiating deal points, preparing investment memos, and presenting findings to management. You'll need strong analytical, communication, and negotiation skills, along with experience in a corporate M&A team or investment bank. The role demands a deep understanding of the advertising technology, online entertainment, and online gaming sectors.
Must have:
  • 2-4 years M&A experience
  • Due diligence expertise
  • Financial modeling skills
  • Negotiation & communication
  • Understanding of AdTech, online gaming
  • Deal execution leadership
Good to have:
  • Experience in leading investment banks
  • Multiple languages
  • Familiarity with various legal, tax implications
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • Travel cost reimbursement or NS Business Card
  • Pension plan
  • Laptop/desktop
  • Lunch provided
  • Flexible working hours

Job Details

For our impactful M&A team at the Azerion Headquarter in Amsterdam, we are looking for an M&A Associate.


About Azerion

Azerion is a digital entertainment and media platform. It is a content, technology, and data company, serving consumers, digital publishers, advertisers, and game creators globally. Growth through acquisition is a key driver in Azerion’s growth strategy. Over the past years, our lean and versatile in-house M&A team closed 60+ transactions in the entertainment content, advertising, and technology space.


Today, Azerion employs around 1000 people across 21 offices in 17 countries and reaches millions of users every day.


About the team

The M&A team is primarily responsible for managing the full acquisition pipeline from initial scouting to completion and integration. Additionally, the team is responsible for occasional divestments, and other special business projects. The core team consists of M&A specialists, a finance specialist and two dedicated legal counsel and reports directly to the Vice President M&A of Azerion.


What you will be doing in this role

As an M&A Associate you will be responsible for managing and coordinating the whole acquisition process, primarily during the execution phase (i.e. due diligence phase). In close collaboration with the Vice President M&A, you execute M&A transactions in support of the overall Corporate Strategy. You own a transaction from A to Z, know every aspect of it, and are the first point of contact for all stakeholders. You are steering a project-based transaction team and jointly create valuation models, analyses, and reports that enable management to take informed decisions.


Your responsibilities:

Plan, coordinate, and drive due diligence processes, including data collection and analysis

Engage M&A team, internal business experts, and external advisory teams to steer project-based transaction & due diligence teams

Prioritize and assign tasks to ensure that the available resources are used effectively to meet work schedules and targets

Filter and prioritize due diligence findings, take appropriate actions, advice management on best course of action to achieve optimal deal. Integrate key due diligence findings into transaction structure, valuation, and deal tactics

Pre-negotiate deal points – business, financial, legal. Prepare management for final negotiation

Conduct financial modeling, synergy and valuation analyses

Prepare investment memos and reports for management and supervisory board


Ideal candidate

University degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field

2 - 4 years hands-on M&A experience in a large corporate M&A team, leading investment bank, M&A transaction services, or family office

Experience in leading (day-to-day) deal execution

Broad understanding of markets, companies, business models in advertising technology, online entertainment, and online gaming sector

All-round understanding of – and experience with – various, cross-disciplinary items of an M&A deal, including valuation, finance, legal, tax, commercial/business

Exceptional communication, analysis, investigation, and negotiation skills

Strong analytical and financial modeling skills as well as ability to interpret results and apply findings

Keen sense of business value, risk exposure, and opportunity potential.

Ability to prioritize and balance speed, cost, and quality

Knows how to play the M&A game.

Develops negotiating tactics in collaboration with management to achieve best possible outcome

High proficiency with Office Suite, analytics tools, and valuation methodologies

Ability to summarize, document, and present complex findings to management

A dynamic, proactive, highly flexible attitude. Curious individual, committed to teamwork

Impeccable English (multiple languages are a huge plus, Dutch not required)


What we offer you

The opportunity to work at an innovative, high-paced company, near Amsterdam

An informal yet professional international working environment

Room for personal development in a highly skilled and motivated team

Competitive salary

Travel cost reimbursement OR an NS Business Card

Pension Plan

Laptop/desktop

Lunch is provided

Flexible working hours


Here’s what happens after you send your application

You’ll receive an email confirming our hiring department has received your application. An update will follow as to what the next stage will be for you.


*Please note that if you choose to submit your details and curriculum vitae in application to this posted vacancy, you are consenting to the Azerion Human Resources department processing your personal data. Your details may be retained for comparison to future roles that may match your skills and expertise. Should you wish to withdraw your consent, this can be achieved by submitting your request to dpo@azerion.com


*Please note that Azerion does not work with agencies. We will not pay any fees related to unrequested cv introductions.

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About The Company

Founded in 2014, Azerion (EURONEXT: AZRN) is one of Europe’s largest digital advertising and entertainment media platforms. Azerion brings global scaled audiences to advertisers in an easy and cost-effective way, delivered through its proprietary technology, in a safe, engaging, and high-quality environment, utilizing its strategic portfolio of owned and operated content with entertainment and other digital publishing partners.


Having its roots in Europe with its headquarters in Amsterdam, Azerion has commercial teams based in over 26 cities around the world to closely support its clients and partners to find and execute creative ways to really make an impact through advertising.


Azerion’s integrated platform provides technology solutions to automate the purchase and sale of digital advertising for media buyers and sellers, supported by in market sales and campaign management teams.


Through our technology, content creators, digital publishers and advertisers work with Azerion to reach the millions of people across the globe that play Azerion’s games and view its distributed entertainment content to increase engagement, loyalty and drive e-commerce.


Founded in 2014 by two Dutch entrepreneurs, Azerion has experienced rapid expansion driven by organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Azerion is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and is a publicly traded company listed on Euronext Amsterdam.

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