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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $135k - $170k / year

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World Education Services

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1974

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Social Impact

World Education Services is a nonpartisan social enterprise that provides widely accepted international credential evaluation services to help students, professionals, immigrants, and refugees have their foreign education recognized in the United States and Canada. WES offers credential assessment reports (including ECAs for Canadian immigration), digital tools like iGPA and AccessWES, research and policy work, and social impact programs and philanthropy aimed at improving economic inclusion and workforce pathways for newcomers.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute WES's M&A and portfolio strategy • Identify, evaluate, and prioritize acquisitions, mergers, divestitures, strategic investments, and corporate development opportunities • Assess strategic rationale, market attractiveness, competitive positioning, operational fit, and value-creation potential • Develop investment theses and recommendations for executive leadership and Board committees • Maintain and prioritize a transaction opportunity pipeline • Lead financial modeling and valuation, including DCF, comparable company, precedent transaction, accretion/dilution, and return analyses • Evaluate financial projections, business plans, capital requirements, synergies, and transaction economics • Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses • Assess financial, accounting, tax, and capital structure implications • Lead and coordinate financial, operational, commercial, legal, technology, HR, tax, and other due diligence • Establish diligence scope, workstreams, timelines, responsibilities, and decision criteria • Identify and quantify transaction risks, liabilities, opportunities, and synergies • Coordinate internal functional leaders and external advisors • Synthesize diligence findings and communicate implications and recommendations to executive leadership • Develop transaction structures and negotiation strategies • Lead or centrally participate in negotiations with sellers, buyers, investors, management teams, advisors, and stakeholders • Negotiate letters of intent, purchase agreements, transition agreements, and other transaction documents with Legal, Finance, Tax, and external advisors • Evaluate valuation, structure, representations and warranties, indemnification, earn-outs, working capital, and other transaction terms • Explore optimal financing structures at deal and portfolio levels • Manage the end-to-end transaction process from initial evaluation through signing and closing • Develop and manage transaction workplans, timelines, decision points, and executive approvals • Coordinate investment bankers, attorneys, accountants, consultants, financing partners, internal stakeholders, and external advisors • Prepare materials and recommendations for executive leadership, the Board of Directors, and governance bodies • Ensure transaction requirements, approvals, documentation, and closing conditions are completed accurately and on schedule • Translate transaction assumptions and synergies into actionable post-close plans • Monitor revenue, cost, operational, and strategic synergies against the approved investment case • Conduct post-transaction reviews and capture lessons for future transactions • Serve as a trusted M&A advisor to executive leadership • Present transaction opportunities, analyses, risks, and recommendations • Build relationships across Finance, Operations, Legal, Tax, HR, IT, Sales, and other functions • Represent WES with acquisition targets, investors, advisors, and external parties

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent level of work experience • Significant experience in progressively senior roles focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate development, investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, or a related field • Demonstrated experience executing transactions across multiple stages of the M&A lifecycle • Experience leading financial analysis, valuation, due diligence, deal structuring, and negotiations • Advanced financial modeling, valuation, and analytical capabilities • Strong understanding of financial statements, corporate finance, transaction structures, and deal economics • Strong commercial and strategic judgment • Demonstrated negotiation and influencing skills • Experience managing complex cross-functional projects involving senior executives and external advisors • Strong project and transaction management capabilities • Executive-level written and verbal communication and presentation skills • Ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations • Exceptional strategic thinking, judgment, and problem-solving skills • Ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders across disciplines • Ability to thrive in a transparent, accountable, collaborative, results-oriented environment • Strong alignment with WES's mission and values • MBA or equivalent level of experience (desired) • Senior leadership experience across private, nonprofit, or social enterprise sectors (desired) • Experience with post-merger integration strongly preferred • Experience in education or workforce development (desired)

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options • Time-off programs • Wellness programs • Competitive compensation • Comprehensive benefits • Recognition of achievements • Learning opportunities • Personal and professional development opportunities • Inclusive, mission-driven culture • Flexible remote work

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