M&A Analyst

About BDA

BDA Partners (BDA) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia. BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

www.bdapartners.com

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated experienced M&A Analyst for its Ho Chi Minh City office. A career with BDA is an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors, focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising. The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

Responsibilies

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller's and target's business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client's senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (Core) Competencies

• At least 1 year of M&A experience and training in a similar role with another investment bank
• Experience working on M&A sellside deals in the origination and execution phases
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on cross-border mandates or in multicultural environments
• Strong work ethic, a team player, organized, self-disciplined, and high level of attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Professional proficiency in English and Vietnamese
• Additional Asian foreign language fluency (Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean) welcome, but not required
• Willingness to travel

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.