Kaufman Hall Analyst Program - Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst

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Kaufman Hall We help society’s healthcare organizations (hospitals and health systems) to achieve their full potential in service to others. We are our clients’ trusted partners in ever-changing times. For 40 years, Kaufman Hall has provided independent healthcare consulting and objective insights grounded in sound data and analysis to help clients fulfill their missions, achieve their goals, and tackle their toughest problems.

Kaufman Hall provides world-class healthcare consulting for our healthcare providers across the country, with services including:
Revenue & Operations Improvement, Strategy & Business Transformation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Planning, and Treasury & Capital Markets.

The Position Kaufman Hall is seeking an Analyst to join the Mergers & Acquisitions team as part of the 2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program.

The Mergers, and Acquisitions practice has been involved in hundreds of strategic transaction advisory engagements, and have participated in many of the largest, most significant, and innovative hospital and health system transactions. Using a comprehensive and integrated approach to strategic healthcare partnerships, we provide a range of services to healthcare companies, including buy-side advisory, joint venture advisory, sell-side advisory, strategic options assessments, and valuations/fairness opinions.

The Mergers & Acquisitions practice is seeking self-motivated, intellectually curious professionals with a genuine interest in healthcare to join our 2027 Kaufman Hall Analyst Program. This program provides Analysts interested in investment banking, buy and sell-side transactions, capital funding, debt/advisory work and financial modeling with the opportunity to work with our enterprise-level healthcare clients to help solve some of their most pressing issues.

During the course of the Analyst Program, Analysts will be staffed on client engagements and support the delivery of strategic and financial-related services to our clients, working alongside Associates, Senior Associates, AVPs, VPs, SVPs, and Managing Directors. Following an initial three-week training and onboarding period of intensive classroom training on the current healthcare landscape (Healthcare 101) and core skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI), Analysts will be staffed on multiple client engagements.

• Supporting multiple M&A engagements at any given time
• Creating and applying industry-leading solutions to the most challenging strategic and organizational issues facing our clients
• Developing, analyzing, and interpreting financial, valuation, and debt and derivative models
• Keeping apprised of projects to ensure critical milestones are met, timelines are adhered to and changes are properly communicated
• Scheduling client meetings, drafting agendas, taking and circulating meeting notes, and fulfilling other client management support roles
• Building presentations and completed work product to be presented to clients and Board members
• Supporting the needs of the practice beyond client-specific work as required
• Delivering high quality work with integrity

We are seeking highly motivated individuals with a strong history of academic excellence and leadership, personally and professionally. In addition, the successful candidate will…