CDO Associate

• Build valuation and transaction models, including DCF, trading and transaction comparables, accretion/dilution, LBO, synergy cases and scenario analysis
• Translate analysis into executive-ready presentations for senior decision-makers
• Conduct market, competitor and target screening; size markets and develop the fact base underpinning strategic options
• Support live transactions end to end, covering target screening, diligence coordination, business case development and integration planning input
• Prepare Executive Committee and Board materials alongside the Chief of Staff, frequently to short timelines
• Develop AI-enabled tooling and automation; agents, structured prompt workflows and scripts that convert filings and documents into usable data, and apply AI to accelerate modelling and presentation work while maintaining full auditability
  
   

You have:

• Approximately 2 years of experience in management consulting, investment banking, or corporate development
• Degree in finance, industrial engineering and management, economics or a comparable quantitative discipline
• Strong financial modelling capability: able to build a valuation model from first principles, structure it for third-party review and substantiate each assumption
• Excellent executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to structure a clear argument and convey it concisely to a senior audience
• Demonstrated fluency with AI tools, evidenced by tooling or workflows you have built, together with sound judgement on the limitations of model output
• Comfort with ambiguity and with senior stakeholders, including the ability to scope an open-ended question independently and return with a considered view
• Fluent English; Finnish is an advantage but not a requirement

Nice to have:

• Exposure to telecommunications, networks or technology-sector transactions
• Experience preparing Board or Executive Committee materials
• Working knowledge of Python or SQL sufficient to automate recurring analytical tasks