What You’ll Do

- Build and maintain acquisition underwriting models focused on SMB and multi-unit businesses

- Analyze P&Ls at the store/unit/location level to identify profitability trends, weak performers, and operational risks

- Normalize EBITDA and identify realistic add-backs across fragmented or messy financials

- Evaluate unit economics, capex requirements, and return thresholds (IRR, MOIC, cash-on-cash returns)

- Support due diligence processes, validate assumptions, and pressure-test deal quality

- Assist with LOIs, deal structuring, and transaction coordination

- Prepare clear, concise, data-driven materials for executive leadership and board discussions

- Manage multiple live deals simultaneously in a fast-paced acquisition environment

- Deliver fast underwriting turnarounds to support rapid investment decisions

What We’re Looking For

- 4–6 years of experience in:

. Search funds

. Lower middle market private equity

. SMB acquisitions

. Multi-unit roll-ups

. Franchise M&A

. Deal-focused FP&A

. Boutique transaction advisory or QoE/FDD firms

- Strong experience underwriting businesses in the $1M–$20M EV range (not large-cap corporate valuations)

- Proven ability to analyze business performance at the unit/store/location level

- Experience working on fast-moving deal environments with multiple concurrent transactions

- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills — practical underwriting ability matters more than theoretical models

- Strong understanding of:

. EBITDA normalization

. Cash flow analysis

. Unit economics

. Return metrics

Operational performance drivers

- Fluent English (C1+): strong verbal communication and presentation skills are critical

- Comfortable presenting findings to senior leadership and board-level stakeholders

- Available to work in or around Pacific Time (PT)