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Dayforce

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

5001 - 10000 employees

👥 HR Tech

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

💰 $1G Post-IPO Debt - Dayforce on 2024-03

HR Tech • SaaS • B2B

Dayforce is a cloud-based human capital management (HCM) and workforce management platform. It provides an integrated application for payroll, HR, benefits, time and attendance, scheduling, and talent management, designed for employers to manage the employee lifecycle. Dayforce is delivered as a SaaS solution primarily to business and enterprise customers.

📋 Description

• Support enterprise strategy, corporate development, M&A, partnerships, and market intelligence work. • Identify, research, screen, and track potential acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities. • Maintain a corporate development pipeline, including target lists, research notes, outreach status, strategic rationale, and follow-up items. • Assist with early-stage evaluation of potential opportunities including strategic fit and alignment to the Institution’s M&A principles. • Support due diligence processes by organizing information requests, tracking open items, summarizing findings, and coordinating inputs. • Assist in preparing transaction-related materials, including target summaries, diligence trackers, meeting notes, executive briefings, and recommendation memos. • Build market maps that identify relevant companies, competitors, potential partners, acquisition targets, and emerging sector trends. • Create company profiles that summarize business model, ownership, leadership, market position, products/services, growth indicators, strategic fit, and potential relevance. • Monitor relevant news, transactions, investor activity, market shifts, and competitor moves. • Conduct research on industries, competitors, companies, market trends, student and workforce demand, partnerships, and M&A activity. • Translate research into concise summaries, insights, and recommendations for senior leadership. • Support enterprise strategy projects, growth initiatives, and special projects as needed. • Prepare presentation materials, research briefs, and analytical summaries for executive audiences. • Coordinate follow-ups, workstream trackers, and project documentation across cross-functional initiatives.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, strategy, data analytics, or a related field. • 1–3 years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, investment analysis, FP&A, market research, business analytics, strategic finance, or related analytical roles. • Experience supporting executive-level analyses, strategic initiatives, business case development, or cross-functional projects preferred. • Comfortable operating in fast-paced, evolving environments with shifting priorities and ambiguous problem sets. • Basic understanding of financial statements, accounting concepts, business models, and financial analysis. • Strong research and analytical skills, including the ability to gather information from multiple sources and synthesize it clearly. • Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills. • Clear written communication and ability to produce concise summaries, briefs, and presentations. • High attention to detail, strong organizational habits, and ability to manage multiple workstreams. • Curiosity about markets, companies, strategy, business models, and M&A. • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion. • Prior exposure to investment banking, private equity, consulting, corporate strategy, FP&A, accounting, market research, or business analytics preferred. • Experience creating market maps, company profiles, financial analyses, business cases, or executive presentations preferred. • Familiarity with financial statements, valuation concepts, corporate transactions, or M&A terminology preferred. • Experience using CRM tools, Excel models, PowerPoint, or data visualization tools preferred. • Interest in further developing expertise in financial modeling, strategic analysis, and transaction execution.