Corporate Development Associate

The Corporate Development Associate plays a critical role in supporting the company's strategic initiatives. Reporting directly to the Head of Strategy, this position focuses on high-impact analytical work, data assessment, market benchmarking, and providing support across strategy, M&A, and corporate-related deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct market research and benchmarking against key industry players.
• Develop insights from performance data to support strategic planning.
• Maintain dashboards and trackers to monitor strategic KPIs.
• Assist in sourcing, screening, and evaluating investment and acquisition opportunities.
• Perform light financial modeling and develop business cases for internal approval.
• Prepare presentations, strategy updates, and other reports.
• Summarize complex data and deal analysis into digestible insights.
• Maintain internal records and documentation for corporate actions.
• Perform structured and unstructured data analysis to inform decisions.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge databases on markets, competitors, and potential targets.
• Translate trends and analytics into actionable business recommendations.
• Partner with teams across finance, operations, product, legal, and strategy.
• Support cross-departmental initiatives requiring corporate development insight.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or a related field.
• 2-4 years' experience in an analytical role in a high growth environment such as technology startup/scaleup, strategy consulting, or banking.
• Strong analytical skills and business case development.
• High proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint; experience with data tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) is a plus.
• Fluency in English; Arabic knowledge is preferred.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Hybrid)