Corporate Development Associate - Mergers and Acquisitions

Earned is a category-defining, first-in-kind tax-smart financial services firm dedicated to serving doctors, their families, and their practices. Our goal is to be the only financial partner doctors need by seamlessly integrating personal and practice-based solutions to maximize their wealth potential and drive better financial outcomes. Our technology-driven approach, supported by fiduciary experts and modern tax-smart tools, ensures clients have a clear, real-time view of their financial trajectory through our iOS app and beyond. Our offering is differentiated, superior and creates deep connections with our clients.

What further sets Earned apart is our strategic growth model. We have secured an initial $200M commitment to fuel an aggressive M&A strategy, acquiring and integrating best-in-class financial services firms to expand our capabilities and accelerate our vision. Backed by leading investors—including Summit Partners, Silversmith Capital, Juxtapose, Hudson Structured, and Breyer Capital—we are rapidly scaling to redefine financial services for medical professionals.

Join us as we build the future of financial services for doctors—faster, smarter, and at scale.

Job Summary

Earned Wealth is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented M&A Corporate Development Associate to join our team. This role will be crucial in supporting all aspects of our deal execution activities - helping to evaluate, identify and attract top quality firms serving physician and dentist clients for the Earned platform. The ideal candidate will be a proactive self-starter with a passion for building connections with people, strong research and analytical skills, and the ability to support M&A workstreams. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to our M&A strategy by supporting the corporate development team in evaluating and identifying potential acquisition/partnership opportunities. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills, the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, and be able to assist in supporting the transaction process. We are looking for candidates who can quickly organize and maintain information requests, prepare analysis, and support ongoing diligence workstreams for multiple live deals simultaneously. This will require excellent organization and project management skills to coordinate with both internal (Earned) and external (due diligence providers and seller) stakeholders.

You will be supported by a strong existing Client Development team, along with a leadership team that is highly skilled at M&A and integration. Additionally, we have already built strong internal processes for evaluating and acquiring potential targets. 

Key Responsibilities

 Your key unique value-add is supporting and maintaining deal execution activities with oversight from senior members of our corporate development team.

Transaction execution support activities:

• Support the preliminary add-on assessment based upon the unique criteria by which Earned evaluates potential target quality

• Collaborate on the background research activity for potential add-on targets (people, revenue mix, unique service lines, etc.)

• Assist in preparing preliminary financial analysis and forecast model for each acquisition – from the initial historical financial analysis through the post-close growth plan

• Manage the information flow between add-on candidates, third-party diligence providers, and Earned teams

• Own the information and data intake for potential targets, as well organizing items in a central repository and synthesizing information for the benefit of Earned’s internal leadership team and functional experts

• Assist the Corporate Development team in supporting the management and oversight of all third-party diligence providers

Other activities:

• Support M&A-related updates to the Board, Earned Executive Leadership, the Investment Committee (including our growth equity sponsors), and eventually other financing partners (i.e. lenders)

• Monitor all relevant M&A activity and news activity and provide critical market intelligence to Earned team through both publicly available information and established network of investment banker relationships

Key Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required

• 2-3 years of experience in investment banking, financial due diligence, private equity, and/or corporate development roles 

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills - trusted to represent Earned in a variety of contexts, including with acquisition targets, our leadership team, and our investors

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for financial modeling and data analysis

• Excellent project management skills; familiarity with technology tools to support M&A process a plus  

• Comfort creating presentations and illustrations designed to tell a story to both business owners and internal team

• High emotional intelligence

• Home office location can be flexible

Key Attributes

• You’re excited by the opportunity to build something new: you have wanted an opportunity to help build the foundation for a successful M&A strategy - working across a significant breadth of responsibilities and owning critical aspects of the execution process

• You’re an enthusiastic self-starter: you thrive in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment. You are highly accountable and hold yourself to a high standard; you have strong drive and will to win

• You’re meticulous and analytical: you pay close attention to details and can identify trends and provide insights to support business decisions through data analysis

• You’re naturally collaborative: you see the importance of bringing internal and external stakeholders along and proactively engage and communicate to drive the best results

• You’re mission-driven: you’re motivated by our mission to improve the financial health and wellness of healthcare professionals all over the country through an ecosystem that has never existed before

• An attractive total compensation package

• Employer-sponsored health insurance (medical, dental, vision)

• 401k + 5% match