Associate, Exit Planning and Transaction Support

🏢 Accordion · 📍 Boston; Chicago; Dallas; New York · 💼 onsite 💰 $120,000 - $170,000 / yr
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Company Overview

We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation.

If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. 

Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark.

Strategic Finance Practice | Exit Planning and Transaction Support Sub-Practice  

This position is an exciting opportunity to join our Exit Planning and Transaction Support sub-practice, which is a dedicated, transaction-focused team within our broader Strategic Finance practice. This position requires candidates to have 3 to 5 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, or quality of earnings. 

Strategic Finance: Accordion’s Strategic Finance practice provides strategic advisory to CFOs to unlock end-to-end value creation, partnering with Finance teams on building capabilities to enhance performance visibility, planning activities, and data analytics to enable and accelerate value creation. By combining extensive operational FP&A experience, data and technology skills, and a proprietary engagement model, we develop and implement tools and processes and deliver solutions that meet the rigor and pace required in a private equity-backed environment.

Exit Planning and Transaction Support: Our Exit Planning and Transaction Support sub-practice, sitting within our broader Strategic Finance practice, focuses on the full spectrum of M&A execution: from financial modeling, valuation, and analytical support to serving in a bolt-on corporate development capacity. From quarterbacking current deals to developing playbooks and best practices for a robust acquisition strategy, from the fund level to the portfolio level, from platforms to add-ons to carve outs, “no job is too small, no fee is too big.” In addition to analyzing the financial and operational data, we help quantify current an

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Key Role Competencies & Evaluation Highlights

Key Role Focus:

Strict focus on advanced financial modeling, private equity value-creation mechanics, and immediate C-suite advisory credibility.

📋 Preparation Priorities (Key Areas to Clarify):
  • 1. Flawed technical accounting or financial modeling errors during live case tests.
  • 2. Inability to synthesize complex financial data into a concise, actionable executive summary.
  • 3. Arrogance or talking down to corporate finance team members during engagements.
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I partner with private equity sponsors and portfolio CFOs to pull the exact operational levers that accelerate enterprise value.

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