Strategy and Corporate Development Analyst

🕒 July 30

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DeVry University

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1001 - 5000 employees

📚 Education

👥 B2C

Education • B2C

DeVry University is a private, career-focused university offering online and on-campus undergraduate and graduate degree programs, certificates, and workforce solutions. Its curriculum emphasizes technology, business, and healthcare fields (including programs in cybersecurity, software development, information technology, accounting, healthcare administration, and medical billing & coding), with services for working adults such as employer tuition benefits, military and transfer student support, and career services. DeVry also includes the Keller Graduate School of Management and highlights hands-on, career-centered learning and student support.

📋 Description

• Identify, research, screen, and track potential acquisition, partnership, and investment opportunities; develop target lists, company profiles, and strategic rationale for review by senior leadership. • 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, market attractiveness, business model, risks, and potential value creation. • Support due diligence processes by organizing information requests, tracking open items, summarizing findings, and coordinating inputs from internal and external stakeholders. • Assist in preparing transaction-related materials, including target summaries, diligence trackers, meeting notes, executive briefings, and recommendation memos. • Learn and support basic financial analysis, valuation, business-case development, and scenario analysis over time. • 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. • 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.