Interim Platform Deal Support
Posted Today by Finatal
£800 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Interim Platform Deal Support role is focused on assisting a private equity-backed platform in executing a roll-up strategy within the environmental, agrifood, and infrastructure laboratory testing sector in Italy. The position involves supporting transaction execution and commercial planning initiatives during a critical phase of multiple acquisitions. The candidate will work closely with management teams and investors, contributing to due diligence, financing processes, and operational strategy. This role offers significant exposure to investment decision-making in a dynamic deal environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and maintain integrated financial and operational models across multiple acquisition targets
- Support management with operational due diligence, commercial analysis, and business planning activities
- Prepare investment committee materials and transaction documentation for investors and lenders
- Assist with acquisition execution across a phased buy-and-build process
- Work closely with management teams, advisors, and investors throughout the deal lifecycle
- Coordinate information gathering and analysis across multiple founder-led businesses
- Support financing workstreams and investor reporting requirements
- Identify operational risks, synergies, and value creation opportunities across the platform
Key Skills:
- Strong background in investment banking, transaction services, or private equity
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability, ideally within M&A or buy-and-build environments
- Experience supporting operational due diligence and strategic business planning processes
- Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced, entrepreneurial transaction environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across investors, management teams, and advisors
- Experience drafting investment committee materials and transaction presentations
- Prior exposure to cross-border transactions and founder-led businesses is advantageous
- Italian language skills are beneficial but not essential
- Experience within private equity-backed environments highly desirable
Salary (Rate): £800 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Interim Platform Deal Support
Location: London / Hybrid
Type: Interim Outside IR35
Rate: £600–800 per day
Start: ASAP
RB2805
Overview
We are supporting a private equity-backed buy-and-build platform executing a roll-up strategy across the environmental, agrifood, and infrastructure laboratory testing sector in Italy. With multiple acquisitions currently in exclusivity, the project is entering a critical execution phase involving confirmatory due diligence, financing processes, and phased transaction completion throughout Q3. This is an opportunity to join a highly active deal environment and work directly alongside an experienced management team and investors on a complex cross-border consolidation strategy. The role will support both transaction execution and broader commercial planning initiatives, with significant exposure to investment decision-making and operational strategy.
- Lead and maintain integrated financial and operational models across multiple acquisition targets
- Support management with operational due diligence, commercial analysis, and business planning activities
- Prepare investment committee materials and transaction documentation for investors and lenders
- Assist with acquisition execution across a phased buy-and-build process
- Work closely with management teams, advisors, and investors throughout the deal lifecycle
- Coordinate information gathering and analysis across multiple founder-led businesses
- Support financing workstreams and investor reporting requirements
- Identify operational risks, synergies, and value creation opportunities across the platform
Key Requirements
- Strong background in investment banking, transaction services, or private equity,
- Advanced financial modelling and analytical capability, ideally within M&A or buy-and-build environments
- Experience supporting operational due diligence and strategic business planning processes
- Ability to operate effectively within fast-paced, entrepreneurial transaction environments
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across investors, management teams, and advisors
- Experience drafting investment committee materials and transaction presentations
- Prior exposure to cross-border transactions and founder-led businesses is advantageous
- Italian language skills are beneficial but not essential
- Experience within private equity-backed environments highly desirable