Assistant Vice President - M&A

Mumbai Permanent View Job Description
You will join an established practice, built over the last four years, as its first dedicated senior hire. You will lead deal execution across all four service lines from day one and build toward independent deal leadership over two to three years
  • Join an established flagship practice
  • Opportunity to work on the promotors side of the table

About Our Client

The company is a specialist mid-market financial advisory firm with four decades of experience serving promoter families. We act as the promoter's extended team across the deal lifecycle, sell-side M&A, IPO advisory, growth fundraising, and buy-side advisory, with deal sizes typically ranging from INR 100 Crore to a few thousand crore across domestic and cross-border mandates.

Job Description

Your responsibilities run across all four practices rather than sitting within any one of them:* The financial case: build and own the transaction models, three-statement, DCF, LBO, IRR, scenario and deal-specific structures, that form the financial backbone of every mandate.* The deal narrative: lead the information memorandum and investor materials, the investment story, financial analysis, projections and supporting data.* The process and counterparties: select and manage the banker, legal and tax advisors; run the timeline from teaser through diligence, binding bid and close.* Query and data room management: own the buyer and investor Q&A end to end, triage, responses, the Q&A framework, and the virtual data room.* Valuation and negotiation: set valuation benchmarks and EBITDA adjustments; review term sheets, negotiate protections, and support the SPA or SHA through signing.* Diligence: oversee vendor assist on sell-side, and lead financial and commercial diligence on buy-side, across workstreams and jurisdictions including cross-border.* The team: lead and develop the junior deal team, and act as the quality backstop on every deliverable that reaches a client.* The working-level relationship: be the promoter's day-to-day operating contact on the deal, running the process so they stay focused on the business, with the CEO and Director holding the promoter relationship above you.

The Successful Applicant

* Chartered Accountant (mandatory).

* 5 to 7 years post-qualification experience in M&A advisory, sell-side advisory, fundraising, or mid-market investment banking, from a boutique advisory firm or mid-market investment bank.

* Strong financial modelling: three-statement models, DCF, LBO, and transaction models.

* Demonstrated experience building transaction models and investor-facing materials, information memoranda, investor presentations, and financial analyses.

* Independent workstream leadership on mid-market transactions in the INR 100 Crore to INR 2,000 Crore range.

* Strong written communication: investment narratives, IMs, and presentations, and the ability to manage investor and buyer queries under time pressure.

* Ability to run multiple simultaneous mandates and to lead and develop junior team members.

* Buy-side or due diligence experience is a plus, but not the primary requirement.

* Manufacturing or industrials sector exposure is an advantage.

What's on Offer

* Genuine ownership: you own mandates and the working-level client relationship directly from day one. Execution credit stays with the people who do the work.

* An established practice: as the first dedicated senior hire into a four-year-old practice with real traction, you help scale something that already works, not start from a blank page.

* A clear path: a defined route to independent deal leadership over two to three years, and to longer-term economic upside as you grow with the practice.

* Competitive economics: a strong base with meaningful deal-linked variable, structured transparently.

* Breadth: exposure across all four transaction practices and cross-border mandates, a range that larger institutions rarely offer at this level.

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Job summary

Function
Banking & Financial Services
Sub Sector
Corporate Finance / Mergers & Acquisitions
What is your area of specialisation?
Financial Services
Location
Mumbai
Job Type
Permanent
Job Reference
JN-062026-7050671

Diversity & Inclusion at Michael Page

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