Associate Finance & M&A (m/w/d), 1 bis 3 Jahre Erfahrung, auch Berufseinstieg

The role

You will build and defend valuation models for target companies. You will prepare financial and commercial due diligence, write decision templates for management, and integrate acquired companies into reporting systems.

What you will do

• Build and defend valuation models including normalized results and purchase price mechanics
• Normalize annual financial statements to show actual earning power
• Calculate the financing side including debt service and payment structures
• Prepare financial and commercial due diligence by structuring data rooms
• Write decision templates for management as recommendations with reasoning
• Assist with letters of intent, negotiation documents, and shareholder materials
• Integrate acquired companies into reporting systems
• Build evaluations to compare earning power, utilization, and mandate development across locations

Required qualifications

• One to three years of experience in a number-oriented environment, or a degree in economics with a focus on Finance, Accounting, or Corporate Finance
• Serious experience with valuation from studies, practice, or personal initiative
• Ability to build models that others can understand and use
• Ability to read annual financial statements and identify items requiring explanation
• Ability to work with AI as a tool for research, data room preparation, drafting, and pattern recognition
• Ability to handle confidential information with discretion

Nice to have

• First practical experience in M&A, Transaction Services, Corporate Finance, a private equity company, or tax consulting
• First experience with a data room
• Tax assistant with ongoing studies
• Mathematics or physics profiles with interest in corporate valuation
• People who have built or sold a company themselves

Benefits

• Exam promotion with 25,000 EUR qualification budget and three months of release
• 100% coverage of childcare costs
• EGYM Wellpass
• Company pension scheme
• Job ticket with 90% subsidy
• Home office equipment and a device of your choice from a catalog
• One book per month from the Vogel canon
• AI tools without token limits or budget caps
• 28 days of vacation
• Daily lunch and dinner provided without personal cost
• Social events and offsites

Before you apply

• Application process includes a written task, a 30-minute interview, a joint working session on a real problem, and an on-site meeting with the team
• Use of AI is expressly allowed for the written task

About the company

Vogel is one of Germany's leading mid-sized consultancies, second-generation owner-managed since 1959. It builds a leading consulting platform for the mid-market using its own capital.