Associate / Associate Principal, Thrive Lab - Bdc Capital

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Choosing BDC as your employer means working in a healthy inclusive and skilled workplace that puts forward the best conditions to bring together unique teams where employees are empowered to act. It also means being at the centre of ambitious economic and financial projects to see further and to do things differently to fuel the success of Canadian entrepreneurs.

Choosing BDC as your employer also means:

• Flexible and competitive benefits including an Employee Savings and Investment Plan where BDC matches part of your voluntary contributions a Defined Benefit Pension Plan a $750 wellness and health care spending account to name a few

• In addition to paid vacation each year five personal days sick days as necessary and our offices are closed from December 25 to January 1

• A hybrid work model that truly balances work and personal life

• Opportunities for learning training and development and much more...

POSITION OVERVIEW

Thrive Lab is an innovation lab and impact investment vehicle delivered through a coinvestment partnership program. Its goal is to build a stronger ecosystem to support the creation of a new pipeline of womenled impactdriven businesses with a particular focus on those that contribute to transformative social change.

Were looking for a passionate missiondriven individual excited about investing in earlystage womanled impactdriven collaboration with the Managing Director the Director of EarlyStage Impact Investments the Associate and the group of portfolio coordinators the ideal candidate will network research and perform analysis for prospective and current impact investments leveraging our unique coinvestment and partnership model.

In this role you are expected to combine sharp analytic skills and business sense. You will get the opportunity to lead investment analysis workstreams and support the team strengthening the impact investment ecosystem.

CHALLENGES TO BE MET

Deal Sourcing

• Work with our coinvestment partners to prioritize potential deals and analyze the nominations presented.

• Discuss informally with entrepreneurs investors and company representatives at occasional investment community or industry events relaying any relevant information to the rest of the team.

• Conduct an initial evaluation of the intentionality of the founder to create positive social and or environmental impact. Review the business plan investment materials and manage the initial communication with entrepreneurs. Provide recommendations to pursue or decline a deal.

• Develop and maintain appropriate information resources and subject matter expertise in various industries markets and business trends.

Platform Building

• Participate in innovation discussions to create new offerings for women founders.

• Assist in the implementation of a strategy to build the impact investing ecosystem.

• Propose new offerings to support our coinvestment partners.

• Assist in the development and management of relationships with key decision makers in the innovation sector including incubators accelerators family offices angel groups and other ecosystem actors to create a pipeline of investments.

• Represent Thrive Lab at conferences and other industry events to build a relevant network of contacts.

Deal Making

• Lead a workstream of due diligence on companies market competition management sales products cap table and anything that is relevant to determining potential business value and exit strategies.

• Determine and validate performance metrics creating valuation models forecasts and financial pro formas.

• Draft Investment Memos most often focusing on the Financials and Market sections.

• Support during presentations to the Investment Committee.

• Analyze technical documentation and/or work with technical consultants to evaluate technologies products and services.

• Conduct reference calls with competitors clients industry experts and prospect companys current or past employees.

• Evaluate the potential impact of a company using impact frameworks such as IMP.

Portfolio Management & Support

• Manage internal reporting requirements by acting as a liaison with the backoffice to perform semiannual valuations and other requests.

• Assist in the management of efficient ongoing relationships with executives of investee companies promptly responding to all inquiries in a courteous and efficient manner as well as with representatives from the investment impact and technology communities through active and ongoing marketing efforts.

• Ensure the accuracy and timeliness of data by developing and maintaining appropriate information resources and subject matter expertise in various industries markets and business trends.

• Assist investees with introductions to potential suppliers investors and employees.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

The ideal candidate should have an entrepreneurial spirit a passion for social innovation and capital allocation (debt equity or hybrid forms) and strong knowledge of the impact and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Canada. With outstanding dynamism curiosity and motivation the ideal candidate will be able to operate well in a rapidly changing environment alongside a small but energetic team.

Typical Background

• 4 years of experience in a role involving structured thinking financial analysis and investments and technical expertise. These profiles are likely to come from but are not limited to:

  • Finance roles: venture capital private equity investment bank accounting firm

  • Operator roles: technology startup industryleading corporation industry specialist

  • Advisory roles: consulting law corporate strategy corporate development

• Bachelors degree in Commerce Economics Science Technology Engineering or Mathematics (STEM). Other degrees are viable if the professional has strong analytical skills

• A postgraduate degree or equivalent certification completed or in course is valuable. Typical postgraduate credentials are likely to be but are not limited to:

  • Masters in business administration (MBA)

  • Other STEM Masters or PhD degree

  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Technical Knowledge

• Good skills in Excel particularly in building financial models that include sensitivity analysis and scenario modeling as well as performing data analysis. Any other analytic tools and techniques are an asset

• Good ability to problemsolve using structured thinking and communication techniques

• Good ability to use other MSsuite applications efficiently mainly Word and PowerPoint

• Ability to intervene pertinently in the context of a presentation to executive audiences

• Ability to write an Investment Memo that is clear concise and eloquent

• Operational knowledge of any technical industry is an asset

• Understanding of frameworks to measure and manage impact investments

• Experience working with PitchBook and Capital IQis an asset

• Bilingualism in French and English is a strong asset

Behavioral Traits

• Love working with a small valuesdriven team able to contribute to our strategy and execution processes

• Supportive helpful attitude willingness to proactively identify gaps and jumpin to fill them

• Motivation and ability to do focused independent work in the context of a team

• Ability to work collaboratively and build positive relationships with stakeholders

• Continuous learning attitude with maturity to take feedback constructively

• Openness to share knowledge and advice with less experienced colleagues

• Comfort working in a fastpaced environment where objectives must be met within tight deadlines

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