M&A Deal Hunter (Insurance Agency Acquisitions)

About the role

Equal Parts is building a tech-enabled insurance brokerage that acquires and integrates independent agencies, modernizes them with shared services and technology, and helps agency owners move forward. As an M&A Analyst focused on deal origination, you will help scale its national acquisition engine in Austin, Texas, combining market intelligence, relationship-driven sourcing, financial analysis and end-to-end deal support. The role is hybrid and comes with early-stage equity.

Key responsibilities

• Understand the independent insurance agency market, including trends, competition, valuation drivers and regional nuances, and define target profiles and priority markets.
• Build and run a repeatable origination strategy that surfaces off-market and brokered opportunities.
• Be a primary point of contact for agency owners, building rapport and conducting discovery conversations on operational maturity, book composition, margins, carrier relationships and cultural fit.
• Review financial statements, normalize EBITDA, and identify revenue quality and operating risks.
• Prepare opportunity summaries, valuation frameworks and preliminary business cases, and support scenario modeling of deal structure and terms.
• Carry opportunities from initial outreach through LOI, and support diligence and closing while partnering with leadership on negotiations.
• Work with Integration, Finance and Product teams on operational, cultural and technical considerations.

Required profile

• 2+ years of experience in M&A, private equity, investment banking, corporate development or strategic business development.
• Demonstrated success in origination, sourcing or relationship-driven dealmaking.
• Insurance sector experience preferred but not required.

Required skills

• Strong financial acumen, including interpreting and normalizing financials and communicating with owner-led businesses.

What we offer

• Salary of USD 115,000 to 200,000 plus early-stage equity.
• Hybrid workplace.
• Major medical health insurance with employer contributions toward premiums.
• Voluntary benefits such as dental, vision, supplemental life, disability and accident coverage.