Financial Analyst – Originations

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Vesta Software Group

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201 - 500 employees

🏗️ Construction

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Vesta Software Group is a global organization specializing in the acquisition and long-term growth of vertical market software companies. Unlike traditional acquirers, Vesta operates on a buy-and-hold strategy, maintaining the independence of the companies they acquire and investing in their sustainable growth. Vesta prides itself on never selling a business, instead prioritizing the autonomy of its acquired companies and leveraging a network of resources to accelerate growth. With more than 30 acquisitions and a presence in over 9 countries, Vesta supports its portfolio companies with best practices and capital while fostering a productive and positive workplace culture, demonstrated by its Great Place To Work® certification.

📋 Description

• Provide dedicated financial screening, modelling and Investment Committee preparation support for acquisition opportunities across Pallas Software Group • Mature financial insights on targets and provide Portfolio Managers with rigorous, consistent analysis for PQs and modelling before handoff to the M&A Execution team • Work across all Portfolio Managers under the Finance Director's direction, prioritising competing origination and diligence demands • Screen inbound and adviser-introduced opportunities against group investment criteria and hurdle rates, recommending pursue, watch-list or pass with written rationale • Maintain and refresh target maps and market intelligence using public, paid and proprietary sources • Support adviser and intermediary relationships by logging opportunities and coordinating follow-up • Monitor market events, funding rounds, leadership changes, competitor acquisitions and distress signals • Build acquisition models covering revenue quality, recurring revenue, cohorts, churn, retention, EBITDA, working capital, cash conversion, IRR and payback under multiple scenarios • Prepare Investment Committee papers and offer support material, investment thesis, valuation range and bridge, key risks, integration assumptions and returns scenarios • Coordinate due diligence workstreams across finance, legal, technical and people contributors; maintain the diligence tracker and issues log; translate findings into model and price adjustments • Support deal structuring, including consideration split, earn-out mechanics, deferred consideration, escrow, set-off and operational ring-fence provisions • Track post-completion performance against acquisition models and feed variances into future underwriting • Own financial qualification and target status in the shared pipeline with the BD Manager • Capture notes and information in the group CRM on behalf of Portfolio Managers • Produce standing pipeline reports covering vertical and geographic coverage, stage conversion rates and pipeline ageing • Maintain competitive and valuation reference sets across active software verticals

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years experience in a financial analysis role with direct exposure to M&A: transaction services, corporate development, lower midmarket M&A, or growth/debt finance • Genuine modelling capability — able to build an acquisition model from messy management accounts and a trial balance without a template, and to defend the assumptions in front of an Investment Committee • Understanding of software business economics: recurring revenue, retention and expansion, gross margin structure, implementation and services drag, and hosting costs • Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and priorities at once, taking direction from the Finance Director on where to focus effort at any given time • Credible with a Portfolio Manager and a founder's finance director in the same week • Writes clearly and concisely • Self-directing, with sound judgement on when to escalate and when to proceed • Exposure to vertical market software, in any sector (desirable) • Experience in a buy-and-build, holding company or serial-acquirer environment with a high-volume, small-ticket deal model (desirable) • Familiarity with earn-out design and post-acquisition performance measurement (desirable) • Working knowledge of share purchase agreements, disclosure letters and warranty and indemnity insurance, sufficient to work effectively with counsel rather than to replace them (desirable) • Additional European languages considered a bonus

🏖️ Benefits

• Regular Career Site employment status • Full-time schedule of 37.5 hours per week