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Senior Manager, Corporate Development

Epic Games

Cary, NC 07-16-2024
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE

What We Do
Our Finance and Accounting teams build the financial infrastructure to scale our growing company. We combine analytical and strategic thinking to develop a sound financial future for our global brand. We work closely with teams across the company, international subsidiaries, as well as with external partners to ensure a world-class finance organization. Our team contains experts from fields like tax, treasury, purchasing, FP&A, and more.

What You'll Do

As a Senior Manager - Corporate Development, you will develop investment themes on new markets, propose M&A/investment ideas, and work with product and engineering teams to evaluate potential targets. As a deal team member, you will help coordinate the M&A process, working closely with functional leaders across finance, legal, sales, tax, HR, and Integration to build financial/valuation models, drive due diligence, develop post-acquisition KPIs, and help define an integration/operating plan. This position provides unparalleled exposure to senior executives and knowledge building around an incredibly dynamic space.

In this role, you will
• Partner with business leaders on strategy development, including identifying product gaps, evaluating build/buy/partner options, and collaborating on target selection criteria
• Research new markets, identify key trends, and translate data into actionable insights
• Source M&A and investment opportunities, and manage relationships with potential targets
• Partner with key business leaders to evaluate opportunities and drive to informed decisions
• Support M&A and investment opportunities through negotiation, execution, and due diligence, including financial modeling and valuation
• Guide and support post acquisition integration efforts
• Develop network of industry contacts, venture capital firms, and investment banking/advisory executives to bring knowledge of market trends and opportunities to bear on strategic discussions

What we're looking for
• Demonstrated track record of helping drive a broad range of M&A deal types
• Experience in technology; prior understanding of gaming, entertainment, and/or software highly desired
• Experience in a mix of investment banking, private equity/venture capital, and/or corporate development, with ability to demonstrate exceptional strategic thinking
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through deal stages
• Strong analytical skills with extensive valuation/financial modeling experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to influence across the organization
• Ability to effectively build relationships with internal and external partners as well as the ability to train and mentor junior team members
• Strong self-starter; ability to champion opportunities and drive decisions
• Investment banking analyst or associate backgrounds encouraged

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found here.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gq0x06-3-145-92-32-42 in your application.

Company Profile
Epic Games

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is also adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation.