Corporate Development & Investment Analyst

About the role

This role focuses on identifying, evaluating, and executing strategic investment and partnership opportunities within the cryptocurrency sector. The analyst will build analytical frameworks for senior management, conduct market and competitor intelligence, and perform due diligence on potential investments. A key aspect involves developing a perspective on emerging crypto trends like DeFi, RWA tokenization, and AI x crypto, translating these insights into actionable business opportunities.

The position requires ongoing support for the company's portfolio companies and managing relationships with potential partners in both crypto and traditional finance. Responsibilities also include preparing materials for management discussions and investor engagements. The analyst will contribute to the company's vision of accelerating crypto adoption by empowering builders and creators in a secure, compliant, and innovative environment.

Success in this role means providing the analytical foundation for critical business decisions, from build-vs-buy-vs-partner comparisons to strategic investment choices. The analyst will use AI tools to streamline tasks like screening, data analysis, and reporting, converting one-off analyses into repeatable workflows. This requires a blend of financial acumen, strategic thinking, and practical application of technology to support daily operations and internal updates.

The annual salary for this position ranges from $75,000 to $125,000 USD.

Skills that matter here

• financial analysis: This skill is used to build business cases, evaluate investment opportunities, and conduct due diligence for strategic decisions.
• data analysis: The role requires strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making and market intelligence.
• AI productivity tools: AI tools are used to compress manual tasks such as screening, data pulls, drafting memos, and monitoring portfolios, accelerating work and building repeatable workflows.
• financial modeling: This skill is essential for evaluating investment opportunities and creating analytical backbones for senior management decisions.
• communication: Strong oral and written communication skills are needed to prepare materials for senior professionals, manage partner relationships, and present findings.

Who this role suits

• Someone with 1-3 years of experience in financial markets who thinks rigorously about businesses and numbers.
• A person with a genuine interest in crypto products, understanding various aspects like exchanges, RWA, prediction markets, and AI.
• An individual who is practically fluent with AI productivity tools, using them daily for research, drafting, modeling, and automation.
• A candidate with strong organizational skills, capable of managing time and planning effectively for multiple responsibilities.

From the employer

• Build the analytical backbone for senior management decisions: business cases, market and competitor intelligence, and build-vs-buy-vs-partner comparisons
• Identify strategic and financial investment opportunities and conduct due diligence on them
• Ongoing support of the Company's portfolio companies
• Originate, structure and help execute strategic partnerships and commercial arrangements
• Develop and defend a view on where crypto product is heading: trading venues and DeFi/on-chain, RWA and tokenization, prediction markets, stablecoins and payments, AI x crypto etc. and translate that view into concrete opportunities for the business
• Prepare materials for senior professionals to use in management discussions, client meetings and the firm's engagement with institutional investors
• Manage ongoing relationships with potential partners across crypto and traditional finance sectors
• Use AI tooling to compress the manual layer of the role: screening, data pulls, first-draft memos, portfolio and partner monitoring, recurring reporting, and convert one-off analyses into repeatable workflows the wider team can run
• Overall operational support with regards to daily operation and internal updates

• 1-3 years of working experience in financial markets, with strong financial literacy and analytical skills
• Trained to think rigorously about businesses and numbers
• Genuine interest in products. Understanding products including but not limited to spot/perps exchanges, RWA / tokenized-asset platform, prediction market, AI
• Practical fluency with AI productivity tools. You use LLMs daily to research, draft, model and automate, and can point to work you have accelerated or built. Comfort with light scripting (Python or similar) is a plus
• Strong quantitative background to support data-informed decision making
• Financial modelling capability
• Excellent organisational, time management and planning skills
• Solid, demonstrated oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

• Competitive salary
• Medical insurance package with extended coverage to dependents
• Attractive annual leave entitlement including: birthday, work anniversary
• Work Flexibility Adoption. Flexi-work hour and hybrid or remote set-up
• Aspire career alternatives through us. Our internal mobility program can offer employees a diverse scope.
• Work Perks: crypto.com visa card provided upon joining