About the Role
You will build the financing, company valuation, and M&A domain from scratch within a new nationwide project, making complex economic issues understandable for individuals preparing for business succession without an M&A background. You will collaborate closely with project leadership to define the technical direction and create reliable information offerings.
Responsibilities
- Develop workshops, information offerings, and digital orientation aids on company valuation, financing, and M&A in business succession.
- Communicate complex economic and financial contexts in workshops, events, and technical formats.
- Create understandable case studies on company value, purchase price, capital requirements, liquidity, and economic viability.
- Practically prepare typical valuation methods, financing models, deal structures, and transaction phases.
- Develop content for the project website, digital platform, and other publicly accessible information formats.
- Collaborate with the specialist responsible for funding and demonstrate how public and private financing components can interact.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years of practical experience in M&A, corporate finance, business financing, transaction advisory, or business succession.
- In-depth experience with company valuation and financing models.
- Proficient in handling annual financial statements, business performance analyses, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets.
- Strong understanding of capital requirements, liquidity, debt service capacity, and economic viability.
- Experience with small and/or medium-sized enterprises and an understanding of the specifics of owner-managed businesses.
- Ability to clearly and practically convey complex valuation, financing, and transaction issues.
- Experience in conceptualizing and conducting workshops, information formats, or technical events.
- Excellent German language skills and professional communication.
- Structured, meticulous, and independent work style.
- Reflective use of digital analysis tools, financial models, and AI.
- Demonstrated experience in transactions, financing, or valuation projects, including personal responsibility and achieving reliable results.
- Proactive approach with genuine initiative and a desire to shape new challenges.
- Ability to document assumptions comprehensibly, clearly identify economic risks, and present complex financial topics in an accessible manner.
Skills
- M&A
- Corporate Finance
- Business Financing
- Transaction Advisory
- Business Succession
- Company Valuation
- Financing Models
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Liquidity Management
- Workshop Design
- Content Development
- Digital Tools
- Financial Modeling
- AI
Location
- Berlin
- Nationwide
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Mobile Working
- Occasional Travel
Experience Level
- Minimum five years of practical experience
Education Level
- No specific degree required; practical experience is key.
Benefits
- Opportunity to actively build a project from the start with significant creative freedom.
- Direct collaboration with project leadership and short communication channels.
- Interdisciplinary team with expertise in financing, funding, marketing, and event management.
- Mobile working with 1-2 days in the Berlin office per week.
- Occasional nationwide travel for workshops, events, and networking.
- Work culture that prioritizes realistic goals, compensates for overtime, and addresses challenges early.
- Potential for continued collaboration and additional responsibilities after the initial three-year project duration.
About the Company
- NDF is the funding-specialized brand of Key Progress Makers Advisory GmbH.
- We primarily work with startups and innovative companies seeking financing for new products, technologies, or business models.
- We help identify funding potential and structure ambitious projects from idea to viable reality.
- We are applying this experience to a new, publicly funded project focused on business succession.
Equal Opportunity
- We welcome applications regardless of gender, gender identity, ethnic or social origin, nationality, religion or belief, disability, age, or sexual identity.
- Competence, motivation, and the perspective you bring to the project are decisive.
