Acquisitions Coordinator
Main Street Auto
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Track, collect, and organize important data, documents, and communications to facilitate the evaluation of auto repair shops that Main Street Auto is considering acquiring.
- Maintain checklists, logs, and trackers and help prioritize workflows to ensure the Acquisition Team’s progress toward important deadlines and milestones.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Main Street Auto’s operations, finance and accounting, marketing, HR and talent, operations support, legal, and real estate teams.
- Communicate important information and coordinate scheduling among members of the Acquisitions Team, shop owners, and third parties.
- Help manage workflows and ensure that all administrative matters necessary for a successful closing and ownership transition are properly prioritized and completed.
- Ability to accurately and efficiently maintain large amounts of data, documents, and communications.
- Experience or proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and Word, is required.
- Experience or proficiency with CRM system HubSpot or any similar data management program is preferred.
- Ability to manage team’s progress toward milestones and deadlines.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent attention to detail
- Competitive salary
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- 401(k) plans with employer contributions
- Paid holidays and vacation time
- On-site fitness center
- On-site golf simulator
- Snacks and beverages in the office
- Skill-building opportunities
- Project Management Experience: Demonstrated experience in project management, particularly in complex transactions or deal management. This includes coordinating multiple stakeholders, managing deadlines, and overseeing project workflows.
- Real Estate or Business Acquisitions Background: Knowledge of real estate transactions or business acquisitions is beneficial. Understanding the due diligence process, deal structures, and legal aspects of acquisitions is important.
- Organizational Skills: Ability to manage and organize large amounts of data, documents, and communications efficiently. Experience with CRM systems like HubSpot or similar platforms for data management is preferred.
- Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail to identify potential errors or gaps in data and documentation. This role involves ensuring accuracy and completeness of information critical to each acquisition.
- Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential for liaising with internal teams, external stakeholders, and shop owners. Clear and effective communication is key to successful transitions.
- Negotiation and Coordination: Experience in coordinating tasks such as on-site visits, surveys, inspections, and legal diligence. This includes scheduling meetings, managing logistics, and ensuring all parties are informed and aligned.
- Problem-Solving Abilities: Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues that may arise during the transition process. This includes addressing requests from investors, coordinating post-closing reconciliations, and ensuring administrative matters are handled smoothly.
- Financial Awareness: Understanding of financial concepts related to transactions, such as deferred payments, earn-outs, and seller's notes, is beneficial. This role may involve working closely with finance and accounting teams.
- Team Collaboration: Experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating effectively with acquisitions, operations, finance, legal, and other teams involved in the transition process.
- Adaptability and Time Management: Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple projects simultaneously. Prioritization skills are crucial to meeting deadlines and ensuring successful deal closures.
- Track milestones that must be achieved for each deal to progress from letter of intent through to closing, and work closely with the Acquisitions Team to prioritize workflows to achieve a successful transition in the ownership of each shop we acquire
- Manage deadlines and closing schedules
- Track and organize important data, documents, and communications regarding each shop in our deal pipeline
- Collect important data regarding each shop, its real estate, other shops in the area, and the area surrounding the shop
- Maintain accurate records within the CRM program Hubspot and foldering system for each shop in the deal pipeline
- Identify potential data entry errors or gaps, discuss those potential errors or gaps with members of the Acquisitions Team, and correct the errors or fill in the gaps where appropriate
- Gather diligence materials and compile them in the proper format, using the Due Diligence Checklist as a guide
- Schedule/coordinate on-site visits, surveys, and inspections (environmental and property condition assessment, land survey, equipment inspections, etc.)
- Ensure timely receipt and formatting of diligence materials to facilitate the quality-of-earnings analysis and Investment Committee review
- Schedule Investment Committee meetings and work with Acquisitions Team to identify remaining diligence information needed before Investment Committee meetings can occur
- Ensure that legal and real estate diligence and contract negotiations move forward in a timely manner for each deal
- Work with Acquisitions Team to schedule and coordinate pre-closing announcements of acquisitions to shop employees
- Ensure that important data and information regarding each shop is communicated from the Acquisitions Team to the Operations Team in advance of each closing
- Work with the Acquisitions Team and Operations Team to track and confirm that all administrative matters necessary for a successful ownership transition are properly prioritized and completed
- Facilitate the Acquisitions Team’s timely response to any follow-up requests from investors in advance of each shop’s closing
- Help confirm accuracy and completeness of closing documentation and coordinate with former shop owner regarding any post-closing payment reconciliations that will need to occur
- Communicate to the finance and accounting team the schedules and conditions for payment of any deferred purchase price, installment payments, earn-outs, seller’s note payments, rent, or other payments occurring after the shop’s closing date