Leadership role in M&A and Corporate Development

This role is for one of Weekday’s clients

Min Experience: 9+ years

Location: NCR

JobType: full-time

As a senior leader in M&A and Corporate Development, you will play a key role in shaping the organization's inorganic growth strategy. You will independently lead deal origination, conduct market and industry mapping, identify potential acquisition targets, and build a high-quality pipeline aligned with the organization's strategic priorities.

The ideal candidate will combine strong BFSI industry knowledge with proven expertise in M&A, corporate development, deal origination, and stakeholder management.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

• Lead M&A origination across segments within the BFSI industry, identifying opportunities that align with the organization's strategic and growth objectives.

• Develop and maintain a robust acquisition pipeline across banking, NBFCs, insurance, fintech, wealth management, asset management, lending, payments, and other relevant financial services segments.

• Conduct comprehensive market and industry mapping to identify emerging businesses, attractive sub-sectors, consolidation opportunities, and potential acquisition targets.

• Originate and evaluate potential transactions through extensive market research, industry intelligence, professional networks, and relationship building.

• Build and maintain relationships with promoters, founders, CXOs, investment bankers, private equity investors, advisors, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Develop investment theses and preliminary business cases for potential acquisition opportunities.

• Work closely with internal leadership, strategy, finance, legal, risk, and business teams to assess strategic fit and transaction feasibility.

• Coordinate with advisors and external stakeholders during due diligence, valuation, negotiations, and transaction structuring.

• Track competitive M&A activity, industry consolidation, regulatory developments, and market trends to identify new opportunities.

• Prepare and present opportunity assessments, transaction rationale, market intelligence, and pipeline updates to senior leadership.

• Support negotiations and transaction execution from initial discussions through signing and closure.

• Develop a structured framework for continuously sourcing and prioritizing potential acquisition opportunities.

Must-Have Skills

• M&A

• Corporate Development

• Deal Origination

• Strong understanding of the BFSI industry and financial services ecosystem

• Proven experience in building and managing an acquisition pipeline

• Strong market and industry mapping capabilities

• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills

• Strong commercial, analytical, and strategic thinking

Good-to-Have Skills

• Merger & Acquisition

• Merger and Acquisition

• Merger

• Experience across multiple BFSI segments

• Exposure to transaction advisory, investment banking, private equity, or corporate strategy

• Experience working with senior executives, promoters, investors, and transaction advisors

Experience

9–15 years of relevant experience in M&A, Corporate Development, Investment Banking, Strategy, Private Equity, or related functions, with significant exposure to deal origination and transaction opportunities within BFSI.

The candidate should demonstrate a strong track record of identifying strategic opportunities, developing acquisition pipelines, building senior-level relationships, and contributing to successful M&A transactions.