Banyansoftware
4 days ago
Director, M&A - France
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Company information
- Company
- Banyansoftware
- Location
- Paris, Paris Germany
- Posted
- 4 days ago
Job description
Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. With a buy-grow-and-hold-for-life approach and a permanent capital base, Banyan acquires and grows companies worldwide, honoring founder legacies and helping portfolio companies modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. Founded in 2016, Banyan operates more than 120 portfolio companies across North and South America, Europe, and APAC, and has appeared on the Inc. 5000 list for six consecutive years. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world.
Director M&A - France (M/F)
Job Profile
As a front-line leader on the M&A team, the Director leads multiple acquisitions per year, from initial evaluation to post-closing integration. They meet with business owners to assess their fit with the company's acquisition criteria and determine their valuation. After acquisition, they are responsible for strategy and key operational improvements. Working closely with the origination team, operating partners, and finance team, they lead and develop the M&A function within their vertical, providing leadership and direction to the team.
Location: Paris, France
Responsibilities
- Meet with software owners and share the company’s value proposition: being the best permanent home for acquired businesses.
- Lead multiple acquisition processes per year, from Letter of Intent (LOI) through closing, collaborating with business owners on key issues and roadblocks to ensure successful transactions.
- Analyze financial data and develop financial valuation models.
- Lead due diligence efforts to identify the key risks and opportunities of target companies.
- Effectively manage internal resources and external vendors as needed (technical, accounting, legal).
- Manage post-acquisition integration, implementing the company’s best practices for managing software companies and capitalizing on opportunities identified during due diligence.
- Nurture relationships with intermediaries and investment bankers to support business development efforts.
- Build an M&A team to support the development of a specialized vertical.
Required Qualifications
- Proven experience as an M&A leader, with a significant volume of buy-side transactions executed in the software and technology sector in France.
- Ability and willingness to strategically influence direction, develop the team, and grow the region, while also being comfortable getting directly and operationally involved in transactions, as the region's primary execution resource.
- A CA/CPA qualification and/or an MBA is an asset.
- Ability to quickly evaluate the key risks and opportunities of a business.
- Ability to negotiate and execute acquisitions with business owners and executives.
- Financial literacy and the ability to build presentations for executive and board committees.
- Professional fluency in English and French, both written and spoken.
We do not yet have a physical office in France, it will be located in Paris. We are looking for individuals comfortable with a hybrid working model, ideally 2 to 3 days or more per week on-site.
Director of M&A - France
Job Profile:
As a front-line leader on the M&A team, the Director leads multiple acquisitions per year from early-stage evaluation through to post-closing integration, meeting with business owners to evaluate alignment with the company’s acquisition criteria and to determine prospective company valuations. Post-acquisition, the Director will be responsible for strategy and key operational improvements. Working closely with the origination team, operating partners, and finance team, the Director will be expected to lead and grow the M&A function within their industry vertical, providing senior leadership and direction to the team.
Location: Paris, France
Responsibilities:
- Meet with software owners and share the company’s value proposition of being the best permanent home for the acquired business.
- Lead multiple acquisition processes per year, from LOI through closing, collaborating with business owners on key issues and roadblocks to ensure successful closings.
- Analyse financial data and prepare financial valuation models.
- Lead diligence efforts to surface key risks and opportunities in target businesses.
- Effectively manage internal resources and external vendors as needed (e.g., tech, accounting, legal).
- Manage post-acquisition integration, implementing the company’s best practices for running software companies and capitalising on the opportunities surfaced during diligence.
- Nurture relationships with business brokers and bankers to aid business development efforts.
- Build an M&A team to support the development of a specialised vertical.
Qualifications for success:
- Proven experience as an M&A leader having executed a volume of buy side transactions in the software and technology sector in France.
- The ability and willingness to strategically influence leadership, grow the team and develop the region, while also being comfortable 'rolling up your sleeves' in transactions as the first execution headcount in the region.
- CA/CPA and/or MBA is an asset.
- Ability to quickly evaluate key risks and opportunities in a business.
- Ability to negotiate and execute acquisitions with business owners/executives.
- Financial literacy and the ability to build presentations for executive- and board-level audiences.
- Business-level written and spoken fluency in English and French
- While we don't have a physical office in France yet, it will be in Paris, and we will be looking for people comfortable working there in a hybrid capacity, ideally 2-3+ days a week.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at Banyan: Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.
Please Note: Banyan Software does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications submitted via email, LinkedIn, or other direct channels. All candidates must apply through our official Careers site to be considered for employment. Applications submitted outside of our applicant tracking system will not be reviewed.
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