Our Harris International Group is looking to hire a Research Analyst to work closely with our Corporate Development team, M& A team and Portfolio Leader in supporting the company’s mergers and acquisition (M& A) research and analysis efforts in the India.

Reporting to the Corporate Development lead, this position will play a key role in identifying, qualifying, and targeting new businesses for acquisition opportunities. You will be researching existing opportunities, finding new potential markets and verticals, researching companies for carveouts, identifying and reviewing trade show opportunities for the business development team.

The ideal candidate is someone who is comfortable working with data, has excellent technical and research skills. While no formal financial training is required, basic financial literacy and/or a software industry experience is an asset.

In this role you will be responsible for working with the portfolio's M& A team to identify opportunities and software businesses that our M& A business development team will nurture.

Location: Remote (India)

Shift Timings: 10AM - 7PM IST

The Role

The Research Analyst will play a key role in our capital deployment team, supporting acquisition activity by investigating opportunities based on market activity, existing databases and enhancing our M& A strategy by researching new markets and opportunities.

• Maintaining and expanding the historical M& A database to ensure it reflects and provides a consistent high standard of data and analysis;
• Gaining a good understanding of the markets and verticals that will help us accelerate our capital deployment
• A firm understanding of our criteria to determine whether or not specific transactions meet the database inclusion criteria;
• Identifying and reviewing trade show opportunities for the CD team;
• Contributing to and producing reports with commentaries and data for internal publications based on our database, using specialized knowledge of M& A
• Responsible for ensuring our database is updated ensure that deal records, company records and individual profiles are accurate and comprehensive;
• Support the M& A team in qualifying potential company targets;
• Track activities and maintain relevant information in Salesforce;
• Generate and report on leads, supporting our Business development team as they set up qualified appointments and move opportunities through the M& A pipeline to our deal team.

Experimentation is part of what we do at Harris. All candidates will be considered, if you think you may be a good fit for the role, we want to hear from you.

ABOUT HARRIS COMPUTER
Harris’ strategy focuses on acquiring software businesses, strengthening and managing them well, and growing them for the future. Our companies provide mission-critical software solutions to a global customer base across various vertical markets. We are a part of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX: CSU), one of the world’s most active acquirers of software businesses.