VP, Mergers & Acquisitions Job Description
CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.
Role Description: As the VP, M&A for CoStar Group, you will report directly to the CFO and be responsible for locating, analyzing, and developing new opportunities to drive growth for the company. The VP, M&A will be responsible for execution of end-to-end deal transactions including identification, due diligence to deal closing and post-transaction close integration.
Responsibilities:
- Drive and execute the strategic direction of merger and acquisition activities.
- Lead stages of the M&A process, including landscape analysis, pipeline development, strategic due diligence, transaction management and play an initial role in post-merger integration.
- Evaluate current actionable prospects and lead strategic due diligence and transaction management for active deals.
- Accelerate pipeline development efforts on an on-going basis to ensure a longer, more robust list of prospective targets.
- Drive formal quantitative and qualitative analytical decision support for ensuring the right value for deals and targets.
- Facilitate short and long-term M&A strategic plans to include sourcing activities, company alignment and overall achievement of goals.
- Assure proper and thorough benchmarking, research, analysis, and evaluation is completed in a timely manner.
- Help leadership identify and address development issues that affect integration and optimization of investment.
- Establish performance measures, monitor results, and evaluate the efficacy of the investments.
- Maintain accountability and ensure compliance with all regulations and laws, as well as the code of ethics during all growth activities.
- Keep abreast of business and market trends across the real estate space.
- Collaborate across the organization to ensure smooth execution and integration.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, MBA strongly preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in a Corporate Finance or M&A transactional role.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience leading M&A deal transactions from inception to close.
- Proven track record of driving successful transactions preferably in the Real Estate or Technology space.
- Strong interpersonal, decision-making and leadership skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong analytical and quantitative experience.
- Able to work cross collaboratively.
- International transaction experience strongly preferred.
CoStar Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer; we maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
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