Head of Corporate Development
About The Position
FactSet is seeking a seasoned and highly motivated M&A professional to lead the company’s end-to-end acquisition, strategic investment, and commercial partnership activities. This role reports to the Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for leading a lean, but high-impact team driving FactSet’s corporate development agenda and executing on the company’s inorganic growth priorities. The Head of Corporate Development will partner closely with the Executive Leadership team to shape FactSet’s inorganic strategy and roadmap, analyze potential transactions, and lead cross-functional teams to execute acquisitions, strategic minority investments, and other related transactions. This is a highly visible role requiring collaboration with the executive leadership team and potentially the board of directors, as well as serving as a senior representative of the firm in the market. Success requires an ability to work collaboratively to manage opportunity identification, deal execution, integration, and value capture.
Requirements
- Bachelors’ degree in finance, accounting or equivalent required; advanced degree (Masters/MBA) strongly preferred
- 15 + years of experience, including leadership roles in investment banking, consulting, private equity, strategy or corporate development
- Proven M&A track record with at least 10 years of prior transaction experience in a deal environment, particularly buy-side M&A (deal sheet required)
- Familiarity with FactSet and the broader technology, AI or information services industry
- Deep financial acumen and experience across the entire M&A lifecycle from identification, execution through integration
- Familiarity with structuring and negotiating a range of transactions – acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments, joint ventures and partnerships
- Demonstrated success building and identifying opportunities through external networks, and credibility serving as a public-facing representative of the firm with founders, executives, advisors, and partners
- Experience originating and standing up strategic or commercial partnerships, including nascent relationships
- Proven numerical and analytical skills with the ability to translate analytical findings into actionable insights, solutions or next steps
- Ability to partner with the CEO, CFO and other senior leaders to formulate overall inorganic roadmap, articulate M&A and partnership priorities, and execute strategy
- Entrepreneurial, hands on and bias to action. Player coach mentality, willing to roll up your sleeves
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
Responsibilities
- Own and lead all aspects of the M&A process from initial contact to closing, including strategic evaluation, due diligence, financial modelling, valuation, transaction structuring, deal negotiation and execution of acquisitions, divestitures, minority investments and other related transactions
- Develop, evolve, communicate, and enforce effective frameworks and strategies by which to identify, evaluate, prioritize and pursue potential inorganic opportunities
- Represent FactSet externally as a senior ambassador for the firm’s inorganic agenda – engaging founders, executives, investors, and industry participants.
- Originate and incubate strategic partnerships from first conversation through commercial launch, structuring pilots, commercial agreements, joint ventures and minority investments that create optionality for deeper relationships or future acquisitions.
- Effectively manage the transition of acquisitions and partnerships to internal teams and govern the integration of acquired businesses to ensure post-acquisition plans are implemented and value is captured
- Lead the formal review of prior transactions and inorganic initiatives, capturing lessons learned to enable continuous improvement
- Cultivate cross-functional relationships across the organization, build consensus among key stakeholders and work collaboratively to influence decision-making with executive- and board-level audiences
- Partner with cross-functional groups to strengthen FactSet's M&A infrastructure and readiness by ensuring adaptable and repeatable processes, playbooks and tools across all phases of the M&A lifecycle
- Maintain relationships with a network of advisors and industry contacts (e.g. bankers, consultants, lawyers, PE/VC firms, startups) to gain market intelligence and incorporate relevant external insights to drive internal stakeholder decisions
- Provide hands-on leadership, development and coaching to continuously enhance the effectiveness of the Corporate Development team and build a strong bench of talent
- Support non-deal related strategic initiatives and assist with ad-hoc analyses and special projects, as required
Benefits
- health, life, and disability insurance
- retirement savings plans
- discounted employee stock purchase program
- paid time off for holidays
- family leave
- company-wide wellness days
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
