Associate Corporate Development
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead due diligence for live M&A transactions, build financial models and valuation analyses, prepare screening memos and executive deal materials, manage venture portfolio information, and forecast deal-related cash outflows. Support strategic investments across multiple high-priority transactions.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Commerce, Finance, Actuarial Science, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience at an investment bank, venture capital firm, private equity firm, management consultancy, or startup
- Financial modeling and valuation skills
- Business model analysis
- Problem-solving skills
- Deal memo writing experience
- Storytelling skills
- Advanced Excel
- Experience with data analysis tools
- Ability to work independently across multiple transactions
- SQL proficiency is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead due diligence across live transactions
- Organize and maintain data rooms
- Schedule diligence and debrief sessions
- Draft consolidated diligence reports
- Build operating models, trading comparables, precedent transactions, DCF analyses, returns analyses, and accretion or dilution support
- Produce screening memos and company teardowns
- Maintain the venture investment portfolio deal-terms inventory
- Collect quarterly portfolio-company KPI updates
- Track valuation marks with IRR and MOIC per position
- Forecast deal-related cash outflows
- Prepare executive deal materials and Board pages
- Support data analysis
Benefits
- Bonus program
- Equity program
- Wellness allowance
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
Hiring Process
Candidates may complete job-related skills or work-style assessments. Results are considered alongside experience and interviews and are not the sole basis for an employment decision.
