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M&A Associate

Voodoo is a Tech company that creates and publishes hyper-casual and casual mobile games for a wide audience. It is the worldwide leader in the mobile game market through snackable, innovative and creative content combining data and new technologies.

The company raised $200M in 2018 and we have been certified a Great Place to Work France 2020. More recently, Tencent has become a minority stakeholder in Voodoo, with a role in framing our strategy to dominate the Asia Pacific region.

#1 worldwide in mobile game downloads, and regularly at the top of the App Store rankings, our games have about 300 million monthly active users and more than 5 billion downloads since our creation. Voodoo is one of the most impressive examples of hypergrowth in the ecosystem, having multiplied its turnover by 5 over the past few years.

With more than 300 employees around the world, we would love you to apply to join an ambitious, innovative and international company!

We recruit passionate and creative profiles, who seek to harness the power of data and new technologies to disrupt the mobile market. Driven by a test-and-learn culture, we welcome talented people wishing to undertake and manage unique, ambitious and challenging projects. Our goal is to foster excellence at all levels -individual, team and company, which to us means solving problems by breaking the rules, learning fast and autonomously and delivering with the best execution.

Before applying, you need to know that the company’s Culture is very important to us. Our employees evolve within an environment designed to be fulfilling. Life at Voodoo is characterised by numerous events throughout the year that allow you to feel fully integrated into the team and to get involved in creative and innovative projects. Among them: onboarding programs, our annual global summit, other company-wide events, hackathons, game jams, wellness events and more.

We are looking for an M&A Associate to join our Corporate Development team. Working closely with the CEO, CFO and Head of M&A, you will actively contribute to our growth strategy by sourcing potential investment or acquisition opportunities and delivering successful transaction outcomes.

- Tracking competitive intelligence in the mobile games market, worldwide

- Developing a network of relationships across the industry

- Maintaining a deal sourcing pipeline

- Performing detailed financial modelling and valuation analysis

- Drafting deal investment memos

- Conducting and coordinating due diligence processes

- Preparing or reviewing term sheets and contracts

- Monitoring integration progress

The M&A Associate will interact with a wide variety of stakeholders, including founders / management teams of potential M&A partners, Voodoo’s senior leadership and colleagues across all functional areas, as well as external advisors.

- Strong academic background

- Minimum 3 years of experience in investment banking (M&A) and/or private investing (VC, growth, PE)

- Superior analytical, financial, and modelling skillset

- Familiarity with the technology and internet sectors; passionate about gaming (or make up for it with an outsized sense of humour)

- Enthusiastic, proactive, accountable, and detail-oriented

- Strong organizational skills, ability to prioritize and to remain composed in a fast-paced environment

- Strong written (memos as much as slides) and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex ideas clearly and concisely

- Team-oriented; able to flex communication style to interact effectively with a wide range of counterparts across cultures and seniority

- Highest degree of Integrity and emotional maturityFluent in French and English

Competitive compensation package ⧫ Free shares ⧫ Remote days ⧫ Lunch card ⧫ Wellness activities ⧫ Hackathon ⧫ Seminars ⧫ Global Summit

We are offering all members of staff a flexible vacation policy, allowing them to take as many paid days off as they wish as long as the work is done and objectives are achieved.

Our recruitment process typically includes a call with our recruitment team, as well as interviews with your future manager and team members focusing on job fit. We will focus on your soft skills through values fit interviews that will determine if your values are compatible with ours. Lastly, a test / case study will feature at some point in your process.