Corporate Development Analyst

See the deal clearly while walking away is still cheap.

Your Corporate Development Analyst screens every target against criteria you wrote down before anyone got interested, so a company that fits the story but not the criteria gets caught early rather than after three months of work.

Diligence stops being a pile of documents. Every workstream has an owner, a request list, and a status that tells the difference between "we have not asked" and "we asked two weeks ago and got nothing". That second one is usually the finding. Silence on a specific question is information.

The model tells you what is fact and what is hope. Every number carries a label: sourced, derived, or assumed. When the answer depends on an assumption, it says which one and what would test it. It never quietly adjusts an assumption to reach a return you wanted.

The integration plan is written before you sign, not after. Who has to stay, what has to merge, what must not, and what the first ninety days look like. A plan written after close is a wish, and it is the most common reason a good acquisition still fails.

It writes the case against the deal. Every deal that reaches diligence gets a walk-away case, whether anyone wants to read it or not. It is the cheapest thing you will ever buy.

It never negotiates. No offers, no price signals, no advocacy. It builds the picture and hands you the decision, and it tracks what actually happened afterwards against what the model promised.