Aerospace & Defense M&A Vice President/Principal

Renaissance Strategic Advisors Overview

Renaissance Strategic Advisors is a leading and fast-growing advisory firm focused on aerospace, defense, and government services markets. We provide strategy consulting and M&A advisory to corporate clients and financial investors from offices in Arlington, VA; London, UK; Paris, France, and Melbourne, Australia. We are expanding our team driven by the growth of our client relationships, our international growth, and the success of our offerings.

As a 75-person industry specialist team we successfully compete with some of the largest firms in the advisory market. Our organizational purpose across our offerings is to bring confidence and clarity to our clients’ most consequential initiatives. Our distinct value proposition is to deliver deep sector expertise, rigorous analysis and client consequence through a collaborative engagement process that instils trust for decision making and action.

We combine the depth of our sector consulting expertise with investment banking, corporate development, and industry backgrounds to differentiate our M&A service offering. Our organization embodies a distinct culture of collaboration and apprenticeship, team and family, and performance recognition.  We pride ourselves in the development and longevity of our team members and our commitment to excellence which are central pillars to our overall expansion and success.

We are involved in more than 50 M&A assignments each year across the industry for leading financial sponsors and corporate clients. This includes on the “front-end” of engaging to construct an M&A-driven value creation strategy and proactively bringing thoughtful ideas to clients, to the “back-end” of evaluating a specific target as part of our diligence and financial advisory services, to formulating an ongoing growth strategy post-close.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for an accomplished professional to be focused on M&A buy-side origination, diligence and execution for leading corporations and financial sponsors. A competitive candidate will possess:

• Deep knowledge and experience in the Aerospace and Defense sector including an understanding of platforms, programs and technologies
• Strong experience in execution and diligence across the M&A lifecycle - corporate development, investment banking, or private equity backgrounds preferred
• Combination of public and private company evaluation skillsets
• High proficiency in managing teams in financial analysis and buyside M&A evaluation
  • Strong client presence and delivery skills; sector relationships a plus but significant potential to manage existing clients while becoming a business developer over time

Required qualifications

• 7-10 years of investment banking, corporate development, and/or M&A diligence expertise
• Deep experience within the Aerospace and Defense sector
• Excellent academics at a B.A. / S. or higher qualification level; MBA a plus
• Application requirements include a resume and cover letter