Senior Manager, Corporate Development

The role

You will identify, evaluate, and execute inorganic growth opportunities through mergers, acquisitions, strategic investments, and partnerships. You will work with product, engineering, and business leadership to provide strategic recommendations via rigorous analyses.

What you will do

• Partner with leaders to identify strategic opportunities for product roadmap and business strategy
• Act as a subject matter expert on the competitive landscape and industry trends
• Develop business cases for growth via product expansion or partnership distribution strategies
• Lead qualitative and quantitative analyses including build, buy, or partner considerations
• Perform financial forecasting and valuation modeling
• Manage all stages of a deal process including sourcing, assessment, valuation, negotiations, due diligence, structuring, closing, and post-deal integration
• Coordinate across large cross-functional teams
• Collaborate and build relationships with internal stakeholders and external parties like VCs, founders, and investment banks

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant work experience in corporate development, investment banking, venture capital, or private equity
• Proactive ownership mindset
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Passion for high growth tech, FinTech, and traditional FinServices
• Ability to think strategically using critical thinking, intellectual curiosity, business judgment, and product intuition
• Demonstrated problem-solving skills
• Exceptional ability to create structured quantitative and qualitative analyses
• Superior financial modeling and valuation skills including DCF and comps analysis
• High EQ and interpersonal skills
• Ability to balance multiple high-priority projects
• Ability to collaborate and coordinate across large cross-functional teams
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Top-tier health benefits and life insurance
• Long-term group savings with employer match, through Wealthsimple for Business
• 20 vacation days
• 4 wellness days
• Unlimited sick and mental health days per year
• 90 days away: work outside Canada for up to 90 days per year

About the company

Wealthsimple is Canada’s leading financial innovator, offering a suite of financial products across managed investing, trading, cryptocurrency, tax filing, spending and saving. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.