Financial Analyst – Originations (M&A)

Location: Remote - UK Vesta; core coverage is the United Kingdom and Ireland, with other European geographies as required.

Company

hirify.global operates within Jonas Software, providing enterprise management software solutions across multiple vertical markets through a global portfolio of software brands.

What you will do

• Screen inbound and adviser-introduced acquisition opportunities against investment criteria and hurdle rates, recommending whether to pursue, monitor, list, or pass.
• Build acquisition models covering recurring revenue, customer cohorts, churn, retention, EBITDA, working capital, cash conversion, IRR, and payback.
• Prepare Investment Committee papers, investment theses, valuation ranges, risk assessments, integration assumptions, and returns scenarios.
• Coordinate finance, legal, technical, and people due diligence; maintain issue tracking and translate findings into model and pricing adjustments.
• Support deal structuring, including consideration splits, earn-outs, deferred consideration, escrow, set-off, and operational ring-fencing provisions.
• Manage financial qualification and pipeline reporting across software verticals, geographies, deal stages, and portfolio companies.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of financial analysis experience with direct M&A exposure in transaction services, corporate development, lower mid-market M&A, or growth/debt finance.
• Ability to build acquisition models from management accounts and a trial balance without relying on a template, and defend assumptions before an Investment Committee.
• Understanding of software business economics, including recurring revenue, retention and expansion, gross margins, implementation and services drag, and hosting costs.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and competing priorities under the direction of the Finance Director.
• Clear and concise communication, sound judgement, and confidence working with Portfolio Managers and founders' finance directors.

Nice to have

• Experience with vertical market software, buy-and-build or serial acquirer environments, and high-volume smaller transactions.
• Familiarity with earn-out design, post-acquisition performance measurement, share purchase agreements, disclosure letters, and warranty and indemnity insurance.
• Additional European languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employment with 37.5 scheduled weekly hours.
• Flexible deployment across Portfolio Managers and software verticals based on live origination and diligence priorities.
• Work within a global software group supporting more than 60,000 customers across over 30 countries.