Senior AI Business Analyst

Banyan Software is the best permanent home for software businesses that serve specialized industries, their employees, and their customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build, and grow great companies worldwide, helping them modernize through shared AI expertise and operational discipline. The Banyan Software Foundation, endowed with $100 million in Banyan stock, leverages technology to build a greener and more equitable world. Banyan is Great Place to Work Certified, a five-time Inc. 5000 honoree, and a top 10 company on the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Atlanta, Banyan operates more than 100 portfolio companies across North America, the UK, EU, and APAC. The Role Senior AI Business Analyst - Mergers & Acquisitions, plays a critical leadership role within the Banyan M&A investment team, one of the most active software acquirors in the world. You will operate inside that team, understanding and reimagining its workflows, and executing the high-value AI and data science initiatives that make M&A faster, sharper and smarter. You will join a world-class operation sitting on a vast quantity of high-quality data waiting to be leveraged. Think of yourself as a translator and a builder, fluent in what modern AI and data science can do and trusted by both sides to bridge deal mechanics and technical capability. Partnering with our central AI & Data Science team, you will bring real AI capability to the M&A team’s biggest opportunities and help build the data foundation that powers it. Given M&A functions in between both new business development and operations, you sit at the intersection of all three groups, contributing to the architecture of a true end-to-end system that becomes more valuable with each new opportunity and operating company data set. This is a hybrid role that blends three jobs, all applied inside our investment team: AI strategist: identify, prioritize, and build business cases for AI and data science that drive M&A KPIs. Data science translator: bridge M&A stakeholders and technical AI/ data resources. Scope models and tools, then interpret outputs in clear, decision-useful terms. Builder and operator: prototype and ship working AI tools directly, help the M&A team adopt them in their workflows, and measure real impact. Lean on the central AI & Data Science team for engineering support as complexity scales. Quick Facts Team Technology & Data Strategy, embedded as business partner to the M&A team Reports to Senior Director, Technology & Data Strategy; dotted line to the Lead AI Architect Location Toronto, Ontario. Hybrid: typically, 3 days per week in our Toronto office Type Full-time Level Senior Compensation Competitive base of CAD $130,000 to $170,000 plus performance bonus and benefits. Final offer reflects experience and qualifications. What You Will Do Embed yourself as a core member of our investment team and own the process. Learn the data, systems, KPIs, and pain points well enough that the team leans on you as its investment systems architect. Help architect the data foundation for an AI-native M&A process. Connect the data that today lives in separate systems across the full transaction lifecycle, from screening through diligence to closing, with hooks into sourcing upstream and integration downstream. Build novel tools on top of one of the richest acquisition datasets anywhere. They price a deal, speed up diligence and surface targets before competitors see them. Find where AI and data science can most change how transactions get done. Then sequence the work by impact, effort, and risk. Make the ROI case for each one. Define what success looks like, the sensitivities, and what would make the work fail. Translate in both directions. Turn business problems into well-scoped requirements for our AI and data science engineers and turn model and tool outputs back into decisions the team can act on. Drive adoption. Train the team, design the workflows around what you bui…