The role of Infosys Corporate M&A function is to drive the company’s inorganic growth agenda. This involves defining the strategic priorities, evaluating relevant landscape of companies, prioritizing potential targets, valuing, and structuring transactions, managing due diligence, negotiating and finalizing definitive agreements, securing compliance to all applicable governance and approval framework – both internal and external, and supporting integration (with a similar set of activities for any divestitures the company decides to pursue).
The role will require strong project management, business analytics, strategic thinking, problem solving, executive communications and consensus building. There will be significant hands-on work requiring detailed market / industry / category / company analysis, valuation and modeling, information synthesis, and preparation / presentation of report material.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Develop and maintain financial models which support management decisions for M&A targets
- Perform research, cost studies, benchmarking to support financial and operational assumptions
- Perform forecasting, valuation and scenario analysis
- Prepare industry benchmarking analysis, trading comparable and precedent transaction analysis
- Prepare materials for presentations for senior management and other stakeholders as needed
- Work with cross-functional team of HR, Legal, Finance, to perform due diligence
- Work with business units to ensure that transactional synergies are identified and delivered
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Familiarity with research databases and ability to screen potential opportunities
- Engage with management to understand capability / market gaps, and outline strategic direction
- Sharp mind with strong analytical and numerical skills, proficient in financial modeling, analysis
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain collaborative work relationships within the company as well as with external partners.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to manage, prioritize and complete multiple projects in a timely manner. Adept in standard office software tools, especially MS Excel and MS PowerPoint
- Ability to think globally in relation to the Company’s strategic plan
Requirements
- M&A experience of 2-4 years, CA/MBA/CFA preferable
Location of the role: Bangalore, India