About BDA

BDA Partners (“BDA”) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo.  With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

www.bdapartners.com

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated experienced M&A Analyst for its Ho Chi Minh City office. A career with BDA is an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors, focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• At least 1 year of M&A experience and training in a similar role with another investment bank
• Experience working on M&A sellside deals in the origination and execution phases
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on cross-border mandates or in multicultural environments
• Strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized, self-disciplined, and high level of attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Professional proficiency in English and Vietnamese
• Additional Asian foreign language fluency (Chinese, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean) welcome, but not required
• Willingness to travel

How to apply

Interested candidates should complete the online assessment and upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Responsibilities

BDA Partners is seeking highly motivated Analysts for its Mumbai office, providing an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising. In particular, an Analyst’s work will typically cover the following:

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assisting senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale leaseback agreements, asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents and deal marketing materials
• Conduct due diligence and assess sellers’ and target business’s plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with clients’ senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• Minimum 12 months’ M&A advisory experience in an investment bank
• Professional proficiency in English required
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
• Effective client management skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized and high level of attention to detail
• Willingness to travel

Interested candidates should complete the online assessment and upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Role of the Associate

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated experienced M&A Associate for its Mumbai office. A career with BDA is an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors, focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raise.

Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, an Associate’s work will typically cover the following:

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• Minimum three years of M&A and capital raising advisory experience on a full-time basis with another investment bank, corporate finance team of a Big 4 accounting firm, corporate M&A department, or private equity firm
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills –
• Having a deep understanding of valuation, advanced M&A accounting and general financial concepts
• Ability to guide juniors in financial modeling including building models from scratch and increasing efficiency in financial modelling
• Ability to interact with external stakeholders and defend assumptions and BDA analysis findings
• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase. Experience working on cross-border mandates welcomed
• Strong client management skills – ability to earn the trust and respect of client teams such that clients contact him/her first for daily tasks
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized
• Strong leadership mindset – able to facilitate more effective delivery by working with junior team to improve performance
• Ability to manage expectations, timelines and effectively communicate with both junior and senior team members of the team
• Specific sector experience not required but preferred
• High level of attention to detail
• Ability to travel on a frequent basis as required

Interested candidates should enter information on the application and upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Financial Sponsor Support Analyst, Mumbai

BDA Partners is seeking to recruit a highly motivated Analyst for Financial Sponsors Group based at our Mumbai office. We provide an excellent opportunity to work with high profile clients in cross-border deals involving Asia as well as mid-market Indian transactions across selected sectors focusing on sell-side, buy-side and capital raising.

BDA’s Financial Sponsors Coverage Group is one of the broadest and deepest in Asia, with seven senior bankers dedicated to the Private Equity community in Asia and 20 coverage bankers covering globally.

You will play a critical role in supporting and promoting Financial Sponsor Group (FSG) activities, with a focus on market insights, client engagement, data management, and marketing support for our MUM team. You will collaborate closely with MUM senior bankers and internal teams to deliver high-quality research, analysis, and materials, enhancing our client coverage and relationship management within the private equity clients.

Key responsibilities:

Marketing support & mandate targeting

• Maintain and update profiles for portfolio companies and sponsors
• Coordinate target pipeline decks for sponsor meetings
• Update the private equity brochure and standardize profiles for pitches
• Lead planning and execution of PE-related events

Portfolio & data management

• Manage data sources and systems for tracking opportunities
• Use advanced tools (e.g., Capital IQ, Salesforce) to monitor trends and client activities
• Ensure Salesforce dashboards are updated for PE activities
• Collaborate with IT for live reporting and regular activity tracking

Internal management

• Build relationships with stakeholders, ensuring alignment with FSG services
• Proactively meet coverage KPIs and coordinate coverage meetings
• Serve as liaison with global FSG and MUM team to support Indian fund coverage
• Monitor and strategize upcoming target mandates with key partners

Private Equity market insight & analysis

• Conduct research on market trends and produce PE trend reports.
• Provide insights on buyer behavior, comps, and deal flow for focus funds

Qualifications required

We are interested in candidates who meet the following criteria. Prior experience in finance or banking is highly desirable.

Personal Competencies:

• Commercial savviness to trace opportunities in client universe
• Energy and drive to support the further development of the FSG business
• Entrepreneurial mindset and tenacity
• Highly motivated, enthusiastic and shows initiative

Experience/Knowledge:

• Knowledge of relevant financial sponsor product suite is preferred

Education:

• Master’s degree

Interested candidates must send a CV to Mumbai Recruit.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview

About BDA

BDA Partners (“BDA”) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo.  With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

www.bdapartners.com

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated experienced M&A Analyst for its Shanghai office. A career with BDA is an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors, focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside) and capital raising.

The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• At least 1 year of M&A experience and training in a similar role with another investment bank
• Experience working on M&A sellside deals in the origination and execution phases
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on cross-border mandates or in multicultural environments
• Strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized, self-disciplined, and high level of attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Professional proficiency in English and Mandarin Chinese
• Additional Asian foreign language fluency (Japanese, Cantonese, Korean) welcome, but not required
• Willingness to travel

Interested candidates should complete the online assessment and upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

About BDA

BDA Partners (“BDA”) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

Role of the Analyst

BDA Partners is seeking a highly motivated experienced M&A Analyst for its Tokyo office. A career with BDA is an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience across sectors, focusing on M&A (sellside and buyside).

The prospective candidate will provide project management and execution support on complex transactions and prepare presentation materials to communicate key messages to clients and counterparties. Specific duties will include assistance in the preparation of financial models, valuation analysis, marketing documentation and research.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions
• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business
• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements, including buyside, sellside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations
• Assist senior bankers in process management
• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents
• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance
• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company, precedent transaction, leveraged buyout, and discounted cash flow analysis
• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members
• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

• At least 1 year of M&A experience and training in a similar role with another investment bank
• Experience working on M&A sellside deals in the origination and execution phases
• Strong quantitative and accounting skills
• Experience working on cross-border mandates or in multicultural environments
• Strong work ethic, a “team player,” organized, self-disciplined, and high level of attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Professional proficiency in English and Japanese
• Additional Asian foreign language fluency (Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Korean) welcome, but not required
• Willingness to travel

How to apply

Interested candidates should complete the online assessment and upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.

About BDA

BDA Partners (“BDA”) is a leader in cross-border investment banking, advising on acquisitions, divestments, JVs, capital raising, and restructuring involving Asia. BDA has been majority owned and managed by its employees since it was established in 1996.

BDA has an extensive track record of providing independent advice to entrepreneurs, blue-chip corporate and financial sponsor clients from North America, Europe and Asia.

BDA has teams of dedicated professionals located across Asia, the US and Europe with offices in New York, London, Mumbai, Singapore, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo. With more than 120 professionals, BDA has one of the largest and most experienced M&A teams in Asia.

BDA works across many sectors and has strong regional experience in Asia, with particularly deep expertise in the Chemicals, Consumer & Retail, Healthcare, Industrials, Services, Sustainability and Technology sectors.

Role of the Operations & Systems Specialist

BDA is looking to hire an Operations & Systems Specialist with immediate effect to be based out of its Mumbai office. The role is global, reporting into the IT Director, based in London. The Operations team consists of five people, split between London, New York and Hong Kong, Singapore & Tokyo with substantial interaction across our other Asian offices. You will be working closely together with the COO, the Senior Managing Partners and Operations team, in particular the IT Director, and will be overseeing key systems including Salesforce, Microsoft and both management of our internal support queue as well as overseeing tickets covered by our external helpdesk.

We are a very data-driven organisation and so the ideal candidate will possess a technical edge: being fluent in Salesforce.com administration, familiarity with Microsoft administration portals, Azure and Intune, Power Platform, data analysis and development, business intelligence concepts, and statistical techniques. In addition, advanced Excel skills are required, together with strong PowerPoint presentation skills. Familiarity with Google Sheets and Google Drive is also key.

Solid experience in operations or related roles at a senior level is required. Experience in Financial Services / M&A is a plus.

Responsibilities

Your primary responsibilities are centred on on-going data & reporting management and administration of key systems including Salesforce and Microsoft.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate strong capabilities in the following areas:

• Supporting both the IT Director in various projects concerning:

1. Salesforce
2. Data Analysis,
3. Data Entry including Data Loading,
4. Data, Record and Object Clean up within Salesforce,
5. SharePoint and Teams,
6. Google Sheets and Google Drive,
7. Excel and PowerPoint,
8. Power BI/Tableau/DataStudio

• Maximising knowledge transfer internally and with our partners, to facilitate fast and lasting dissemination of key lessons and best practices

1. Creating and maintaining IT Training documentation including SharePoint sites, training documents, training videos and training sessions

• Building and automating advanced Salesforce.com reports for the benefits of Sector Heads, individual bankers, our Executive Committee, Partners, Senior Managing Directors and the COO, using BI tools, Google Sheets and Excel when required
• Using and integrating financial and operational data analytics to provide insight, critical thinking, and action-oriented direction to the company
• Developing advanced analysis on key Opportunity and Deal data, extracting relevant Salesforce.com data and manipulating in Excel/Google Sheets
• Displaying the data analysis in executive-friendly PowerPoint presentations
• Developing live data dashboards using data visualisation software, e.g. Power BI
• Being able to deal with ad-hoc requests from all of the above mentioned stakeholders on any Salesforce.com related question
• Supporting the Operations & Systems Manager in developing new capabilities (including new tools) to enable better data driven decision-making for the Partners of BDA
• Working closely with the Operations team members, in particular the Operations & Systems Manager as well as the CRM & Analytics specialist, to realise the above responsibilities

Essential (‘Core’) Competencies

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following competencies, which are considered core for the role.

Technical

• Salesforce Certified Advanced Administrator (ADM 201) and Salesforce Certified Platform App Builder credentials
• Familiarity with SharePoint and OneDrive
• Familiarity in Power BI and/or Tableau visualisation
• Familiarity in Querying – SOQL, Google Query – and database management proficiency
• Strong experience in SF Lightning (including Flows, web components, app building, change sets and deployment)
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills – XLS (index matching, lookups, basic VBA), strong PPT skills
• Advanced skills within Google sheets (Google Query, import range, Google Scripts) is highly desirable
• Familiarity with Microsoft administration centre; in particular user & group management, exchange management)
• Familiarity with Azure & Intune is desirable
• Familiarity with SharePoint, Teams and Microsoft 365 Groups

Business

• Attention to detail
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Effective communication
• Effective meeting management
• Presentation skills
• Problem solving
• Self-initiative

Leadership

• Critical thinking
• Team player
• Effective project management
• Integrity

Desirable (‘Bonus’) Competencies

The following competencies are not considered strictly required for the role, but will be considered advantageous. We will be looking for candidates that can provide evidence of as many of the below competencies as possible.

• Knowledge of Investment Banking
• Knowledge of M&A processes
• Experience from working in a cross-border organisation
• Experience from working with Asian countries / working in Asia
• Knowledge of general IT systems
• Cybersecurity knowledge
• Manual and policy drafting
• Project launches and implementations
• Training of colleagues
• Team leadership/oversight

For all enquiries please contact Mark Salib, IT Director – msalib@bdapartners.com

How to apply

Interested candidates should upload their CV here.

All information received will be kept in strict confidence and used only for employment-related purposes. Unfortunately, given the number of applications we receive, only short-listed candidates will be contacted for an interview.