Manager, Corporate Development

The Manager will have proven financial and strategic skills and a thorough understanding of the creator economy. They will develop investment theses, identify growth opportunities, and evaluate proposed transactions from a strategic and financial perspective.  The Manager will evaluate businesses across a wide spectrum of media and be able to clearly articulate how these various elements interact. This role plays a key role in M&A diligence and deal flow and will interface with internal and external executives.

The ideal candidate for this role will have 4-7 years of combined experience in media as well as investment banking, strategic consulting, venture capital, or private equity and wants to make the jump to deal-making and strategy in the Media and Entertainment business.

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, model, and lead due diligence on investment opportunities.
• Assess targets with an understanding of potential synergies and create complex models that reflect both opportunistic upside and risk.
• Perform ongoing research, detailed financial modeling, and analysis to inform investment decisions.
• Develop theses and draft white papers around the future of the media landscape and businesses that Jellysmack can expand into.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to manage the day-to-day execution of investment priorities.
• Manage M&A processes and systems to keep team and executives aware of the latest changes in ongoing deals
• Formulate and prepare presentations to share findings and recommendations for divisional and senior management critical to the decision-making process
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses at the request of senior executives

A little about you:

• 4-7 years of experience working with both media companies as well as investment banks, strategic consultancies, private equity firms, venture capital funds, and other corporate development roles
• Superb quantitative skills, advanced knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint, comfortable working with large amounts of data and financial documents
• Excellent problem-solving skills including project prioritization, critical thinking, and hypothesis development
• Ability to logically break down approaches and assumptions, hypothesis-driven and comfortable with ambiguity
• Experience in M&A
• Experience in entertainment and/or media preferred
• B.S / B.A. required

Our “Work from Jellywhere” philosophy:

Jellysmack believes in a flexible work environment in which anyone can work from anywhere. This is why we’ve implemented our flexible location philosophy, meaning you get the best of both worlds: you can choose to work from home and / or from our offices in Paris, New York, Los Angeles and Corti.

Nota bene: your residence must be in the country in which you are applying

Perks at Jellysmack:

• Early Summer release Fridays
• Paid volunteering: 1 day dedicated to supporting a cause of your choice
• Company sponsored wellness programs and events
• Competitive Healthcare coverage
• 401K match

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