What are the responsibilities and job description for the Aerospace & Defense Mergers and Acquisitions Analyst position at Renaissance Strategic Advisors?
Who are we?
Renaissance Strategic Advisors is a leading advisory firm focused on aerospace, defense, and government services markets. Our team provides strategy consulting and M&A advisory to corporate clients and financial investors from offices in Arlington, VA; London, UK; Paris, France, and Melbourne, Australia.
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for an accomplished M&A analyst to be focused on buy-side origination and execution for leading corporations and financial sponsors. A competitive candidate will possess:
• A passion for and experience in the Aerospace and Defense sector
• Strong prior experience in execution across the M&A lifecycle - corporate development, investment banking, or private equity backgrounds preferred
• Combination of public and private valuation capabilities and deep M&A opportunity evaluation skills
• High proficiency in financial analysis, excel-based modeling, and PowerPoint deck creation
Primary day-to-day responsibilities – M&A Analyst
• Analyzing and validating business plans to produce informed expectations of future performance
• Producing cash flow-based valuation models and detailed comps analysis
• Supporting both sell-side and buyside processes with marketing materials and investment rationale
• Delivering reports and findings to leadership of major A&D corporations and financial investors
Required qualifications
• 1-3 years of investment banking, corporate development, strategy, or private equity experience, ideally with significant exposure to Aerospace and Defense
• Excellent academics at a B.A. / B.S. or higher qualification level
• Applicants must be able to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future
• Application requirements include a resume and cover letter
Why Renaissance Strategic Advisors?
We are a 75-person industry specialist team that successfully competes against 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 are expanding our team driven by the growth of our client relationships, our international growth, and our expanding offerings.
As a firm we are involved in over 50 M&A assignments each year across the industry. 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 and valuing a specific target as part of diligence and formulating an ongoing growth strategy post-close.
Our team combines 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 evaluate candidates for the long term. We pride ourselves in the development and longevity of our team members and our commitment to excellence which are central pillars to our overall growth and success.
