Corporate Development Associate

Manulife • Boston, MA

4d • $73,350 - $122,250 • Hybrid

About The Position

Corporate Development serves as a strategic team responsible for managing Manulife’s mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures end-to-end, while driving major projects aligned with company goals. Acting as a trusted partner and control function, the team ensures transactions are well-structured, risk-managed, and executed through a disciplined process. Highly collaborative and cross-functional, Corporate Development works with all business segments to enable growth and deliver on strategic priorities. As part of the Corporate Development team, the Manager, Corporate Development is a key strategic role focused on performing valuations using various financial techniques to support mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. This person will be a strong communicator and adept at creating presentations that clearly and effectively convey M&A opportunities, analyses, and strategic conclusions to stakeholders. As part of a highly collaborative and cross-functional team, they will ensure that all transactions are well-structured and risk-managed, playing a crucial role in driving projects that align with the company’s growth objectives and strategic priorities.

Requirements

• Over 4 years of experience in Corporate Development or Investment Banking
• CPA, CFA, or MBA
• Strong financial background
• Ability to analyze results, identify issues and coordinate quick, appropriate resolutions
• Flexibility and organizational skills are required to manage and prioritize several projects at one time
• Competence in developing pro forma financial statements on a standalone and consolidated basis
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with demonstrated strong leadership
• Strong written and visual presentation skills (particularly in Microsoft PowerPoint)
• Proactive, self-directed, and able to work independently with a team of professionals

Responsibilities

• Support the valuation process for potential transactions, including peer review of calculations and transaction metrics
• Assess the impact of transactions or strategic initiatives with respect to Manulife’s operations, goals and objectives - both from a financial and strategic perspective
• Development of written presentations which present analysis and conclusions in a clear and concise manner.
• Conduct detailed research with respect to company or industry specific information, including but not limited to, competitor analysis, industry transaction analysis, emerging competitive, capital, regulatory and accounting landscapes
• Assist in managing transactions from initial evaluation stages through to due diligence, negotiations and closing
• Liaise with other areas to ensure assumptions used for the valuation are appropriate and consistent with Manulife’s standards.

Benefits

• health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
• various retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources.
• up to 11 paid holidays, 3 personal days, 150 hours of vacation, and 40 hours of sick time (or more where required by law) each year
• full range of statutory leaves of absence.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level