Una Brands – Acquisitions Analyst

Founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, Una Brands uses significant growth capital to transform your e-commerce brand into a household name. We have a structured process to develop long-term brand strategy for value-enhancement, optimise existing operational processes through in-housing of multiple brands, and develop plans with brand founders for geographical expansion and product line launches.

We buy category-winning brands with a strong track record, high product quality, and great customer reviews. Our community includes innovative and inspiring brand founders who have built highly successful businesses. Be part of Una Brands today!

Intern, Full-time, Singapore 

ABOUT US

Founded by e-commerce experts, Una Brands is on a mission to build a next-generation consumer goods conglomerate focused on Asia Pacific. We acquire, operate and scale businesses with a proven track-record and category-winning brands. We are backed by top-tier institutional investors and business angels to support us on our mission.

You will get the chance to work alongside a highly entrepreneurial team of exceptional and experienced people, who previously worked at companies like McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Lazada, and Ninja Van just to name a few. We are just getting started — be here from the beginning and get rewarded to grow our business with us!

YOUR ROLE

This is a unique opportunity for an all-rounded individual to grow within a VC-backed startup. As a Fall Acquisitions Analyst, you will get to interact with business owners and hear firsthand their inspirational stories about how they built their brands into multi-million dollar businesses. You will also be involved in M&A transaction processes end-to-end and will further support our efforts in deal origination, company evaluation, and execution of our M&A investments.

• Originate and evaluate potential M&A investment opportunities of ecommerce brands
• Help to build up a high quality funnel of acquisition targets
• Participate in the financial analysis and due diligence of potential M&A deals
• Assist in managing our deal database and pipeline
• Conduct competitor and sector analyses on new opportunities to gain a deep understanding of the ecommerce landscape in Asia Pacific

YOUR PROFILE

• Penultimate / final year student graduating between 2021 to 2023
• Prior internship experience, ideally in PE / VC, investment banking / sales, e-commerce, or consulting
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and willing to get your hands dirty
• Strong analytical and financial analysis skills
• Excellent communication (English is a must) and interpersonal skills
• Mandarin Chinese, or any other Asian languages is a plus (specifically Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Thai, Japanese, Korean)
• Strong project management, planning, and organization skills, including ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Thrives in a rapidly growing and radically changing environment and wants to help us turn Una Brands into the next VC-backed unicorn 
• Passion for ecommerce / retail / brands
• Experience with ecommerce businesses or brand/category management at an e-commerce platform is a strong plus, but not required