ResponsibilitiesDeal Execution - Start to Finish
At Beacon, the investment process will provide you exposure to three parts of being an investor:
- Sourcing & Selling (15%)
- Underwriting and Execution (70%)
- Portfolio Work (15%)
The other main functions of the role include:
- Building and scaling our proprietary M&A agents and AI product suite
- Collaborate with Beacon leadership to shape Beacon's investment process, philosophy, theses, and capital allocation plan.
- Present acquisition opportunities and recommendations to Beacon's leadership, providing detailed financial models and analysis to support your recommendations.
- Lead the end to end deal process by overseeing the financial, operational, commercial, product, and technical diligence process with full autonomy.
- Manage relationships with software company founders, entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders, ensuring a smooth transition throughout the acquisition process.
- Collaborate with internal teams, including finance, legal, and operations, to ensure successful integration of acquired companies.
- Assist in the finance, operations, and integration of newly acquired businesses.
Qualifications- Seasoned M&A and / or investment professional with 6+ years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, private equity, investment banking, corporate development or strategic finance.
- Strategic thinker who can identify growth opportunities and contribute to Beacon's long-term vision of building a generational software holding company.
- Proven experience leading and closing M&A transactions, with a deep understanding of the full deal cycle from sourcing to integration.
- Agile generalist: comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and managing multiple deals across various industries simultaneously.
- Strong academic record from a competitive institution with a degree in Business or Finance.
- Deep interest in technology and learning about different businesses across diverse industries.
- Familiarity with a buy-and-build model and experience/knowledge in VMS, software, and technology is a plus.
- Strong ability to synthesize complex systems.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to be able to interact with stakeholders at all levels of the Company and targets.
- Ability to translate high level objectives into actionable work plans and strategies.
- High attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet tight deadlines.
- Extremely organized.
- Conduct interactions with a high level of integrity and trust.
- Possesses a growth mindset, consistently seeking personal and process improvement.
What You Will Get From Beacon- Demonstrated interest in learning about different businesses across diverse industries.
- Learn directly from entrepreneurs who have scaled businesses from seed-to-$10B+ IPOs.
- Work directly with Silicon Valley product and engineering teams to perform diligence and underwrite technology driven value creation streams with potential acquisitions.
- Operate in an environment that encourages initiative and rapid development.
- Strong development of interpersonal and presentation skills
- Unique work environment which combines a high growth technology startup and a long term buy/hold private equity investment firm.
