Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC.
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 to closing, collaborating with business owners on key issues and roadblocks along the way to successful closings.
- Analyze financial data and prepare financial valuation models.
- Lead diligence efforts to surface key risks and opportunities in target businesses.
- Effectively manage internal resources and outside vendors as needed (tech, accounting, legal).
- Manage post-acquisition integration, implementing the company’s best practices for running software companies and capitalizing on the opportunities surfaced during diligence.
- Nurture business broker and banker relationships to aid in business development efforts.
- Build an M&A team to support the development of a specialized 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 your sleeves up' 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 ability to build presentations for executive team/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 in the office.
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Skills Required
- Proven experience as an M&A leader with buy side transactions
- Financial literacy and presentation skills for executive audiences
- Business level fluency in English and French
- CA/CPA and/or MBA
What We Do
Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software businesses, their employees, and customers to preserve the legacy of founders, while helping grow the business into the future. We are on a mission to acquire, build and grow great software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets all over the world. Today Banyan has over 750 employees throughout the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Founded in 2016 with permanent capital to preserve the legacy of founders, Banyan focuses on a buy, hold and grow for life strategy. For more information on Banyan Software, Inc. visit: http://www.banyansoftware.com What We Look For: - Great enterprise software businesses that have dominant positions in niche markets - We work with owners who are thinking about an exit today or further down the road - We are flexible and can be creative when we find a business that is a good fit - The businesses in the Banyan family all share a similar profile: - Annual revenues in excess of $2M-$30M - A high percentage of recurring revenue - Positive operating margins and cash flow - High customer retention and satisfaction - Happy and committed employees
