Ola Cabs - Senior Director - Corporate Finance

Ola Group Overview:

Ola is India's largest mobility platform and one of the world's largest ride-hailing companies, serving 250+ cities across India, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. The Ola app offers mobility solutions by connecting customers to drivers and a wide range of vehicles across bikes, auto-rickshaws, metered taxis, and cabs, enabling convenience and transparency for hundreds of millions of consumers and over 1.5 million driver-partners.

Ola's core mobility offering in India is supplemented by its electric-vehicle arm, Ola Electric; India's largest fleet management business, Ola Fleet Technologies and Ola Skilling, that aims to enable millions of livelihood opportunities for India's youth. With its acquisition of Ridlr, India's leading public transportation app and investment in Vogo, a dockless scooter sharing solution, Ola is looking to build mobility for the next billion Indians.

Ola also extends its consumer offerings like micro-insurance and credit led payments through Ola Financial Services and a range of owned food brands through India's largest network of kitchens under its Food business.

Ola was founded in 2011 by Bhavish Aggarwal and Ankit Bhati with a mission to build mobility for a billion people. For more details, visit http://Olacabs.com

Role: Senior Director - Corporate Finance, OLA Cabs (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd)

Location: Bangalore

Responsibilities:

M&A/BD

- Identify, track and analyse global targets to partner, invest in or acquire for all of Ola's businesses that include Mobility, Financial Services, Asset & Infrastructure Management, Food and Electric Vehicles

- Actively engage with Investment Banks, VC funds, law firms, family offices to source quality transactions for Ola Group

- Drive end-to-end execution of M&A, investment & divestiture opportunities including deal sourcing, due-diligence, IC presentations, Board reviews

- Run entire documentation process including development & negotiation of term-sheet, SHA, SPA, etc. working with the deal team and legal firms

- Responsible for tracking transaction expenses & adherence to overall Board approval and constructs of a deal

- Work with the leadership in planning and executing New Business launches in domestic and global markets

Fundraising

- Manages Ola's fund raising efforts working closely with Current and potential investors

- Manages all aspects of deal process from start to finish

- Lead due diligence including liaison with business units and enterprise functions

- Oversee and review financial modelling for strategic alignment

- Negotiate with key stakeholders on behalf of Ola

- Lead internal alignment and issue resolution on a transaction

Qualifications

- Bachelors + MBA/ CA/CFA

Experience and preferred previous employers/segments

- 12+ years of experience with Investment Banking with Top IB firms, Tech focused IB Advisory, VC

- M&A experience with tech firms, Automotive companies, Digital banking space

- Financial research, Investment research

- Familiarity with Bloomberg, Reuters, etc to build quality research

- Relationships with Investors, Investment Banks in the tech space

Keywords:

- Corporate Development

- Corporate Finance

- Mergers & Acquisitions

- Investment Banking

- Investment

- Growth Strategy