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🚨 HIRING: Associate Director – M&A Advisory
📍 London
MVA International is supporting a growing independent M&A advisory firm with the appointment of an Associate Director.
This is a senior, hands-on transaction role for someone with strong experience in a deal-related environment who wants broader exposure across the transaction lifecycle, direct access to Partners and clients, and a genuine route towards Director and origination.
The Role
- Lead and manage live buy-side and sell-side M&A engagements
- Analyse EBITDA, earnings quality, cash flow, working capital, forecasts, net debt and key value drivers
- Identify issues that could influence valuation, pricing, deal structure, negotiation or investment decisions
- Advise private equity sponsors, corporates, investment banks and other deal principals
- Challenge management assumptions and translate complex financial information into clear commercial advice
- Lead client relationships, senior meetings and transaction teams
- Contribute to pitches, proposals and business development
- Develop towards originating and winning your own mandates
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Who We're Looking For
- Significant experience within a core deals environment, ideally from:
- M&A Advisory
- Investment Banking
- Transaction Advisory / Deal Advisory
- A closely related transaction-focused team
- Strong hands-on deal execution experience
- Excellent commercial judgement
- The confidence to engage directly with senior clients and investors
- Understanding how financial analysis influences real transaction decisions and outcomes
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You do NOT need to arrive with an established book of business.
The firm is looking for someone who is already a strong transaction professional but has the commercial potential, credibility and ambition to become an originator over time.
Why consider it?
- Join an entrepreneurial advisory platform
- Work closely with Partners
- Take genuine ownership of transactions
- Build towards an all-round Director role combining execution, client leadership and origination
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