Nicolas Jäschke Nicolas Jäschke

Understanding businesses. Creating value.

Finance M.Sc. · M&A · Corporate Strategy · Entrepreneurship

My work sits at the intersection of corporate strategy, M&A, and financial analysis — evaluating opportunities, building the models behind them, and, through my own venture, living with the outcome of those decisions.

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Based in Frankfurt, Germany · Currently in Helsinki, Finland

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Investment case modeled — approved by the Board
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M&A targets screened and prioritized
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First-year revenue of a company I founded
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Project exposure at PwC — 50 staff, 10 workstreams

01 Perspective

I’m interested in what makes businesses work — and what makes them worth acquiring.

My background combines corporate strategy, M&A research, financial analysis, and entrepreneurship — from screening acquisition targets to building and operating a business of my own. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Business Administration at Goethe University Frankfurt, with an exchange semester at Aalto University in Helsinki.

01

Operating

NewHope Strategy

Building the business, selling the work, and carrying the consequences of my own advice.

02

Advisory

PwC

Banking risk and capital markets — auditing, and coordinating a project far larger than any one person’s view of it.

03

Corporate Strategy

Viega

Screening, modeling, and preparing the material a board actually decides on.

04

Independent Research

Thesis & portfolio

Acquisition frameworks and asset allocation, worked through on my own terms.

These didn’t arrive in a tidy sequence — the consulting work and my own company overlapped for two years. The combination is the point: I’ve built the model that supports a decision, and I’ve been the person who had to live with one.

02 Experience

Selected Experience

Aug 2025 – Jul 2026

Working Student, Corporate Strategy

Viega — Attendorn, Germany

The station closest to where I want to work: acquisition screening, the modeling behind an investment case, and the reporting that carries both up to a board.

01

Strategic Analysis

  • Consolidated and prioritized 85 M&A targets, sharpening the strategic focus of the acquisition pipeline
  • Market intelligence feeding into strategic decision-making
02

Financial Modeling

  • Built the financial model behind a >€50M investment case — the case was approved by the Board
  • Excel dashboards and automations that were subsequently adopted across the group
03

Management Communication

  • Prepared reporting and decision material for SteerCo, Regional and Global Board
Sep 2022 – Jul 2024

Founder & Managing Director

NewHope Strategy — Giessen, Germany

Ownership and execution — from client acquisition to day-to-day delivery.

  • Founded and operated a consulting business, generating approximately €20K in first-year revenue
  • Recruited and led a four-person team
  • Digitalization project for a restaurant client — footfall +30% in two months
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Oct 2021 – Mar 2024

Intern, Banking Risk & Working Student, Capital Markets Consulting

PwC — Frankfurt, Germany

Two sides of the same firm: the technical banking work, and the coordination that keeps a large project moving.

  • Independently conducted the trading & treasury audit of an international bank
  • Contributed to a one-year, €4M banking PMO — 50 staff across 10 workstreams
  • Corporate Ambassador in the PwC Friends Programme — applications +50% in three months

03 Research & Investment Lab

A growing collection of independent work on companies, transactions, and capital allocation

Personal Project · Strategic Asset Allocation

Building a Portfolio for Financial Repression

Ongoing · Built during the Finance M.Sc.

A 20–30 year strategic asset allocation derived from a single macro base case — that policy rates stay below inflation — and carried through to a final allocation that holds no fixed income at all.

QuestionIf nominal bonds are no longer a safe asset, what does a multi-decade allocation actually look like?
MethodCore-satellite SAA with explicit macro views, capital market assumptions, and a five-scenario stress test.
OutputA five-sleeve allocation — plus an honest account of where the framework breaks.

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Academic Research · M&A

Success Is Decided Before Integration Begins

Bachelor Thesis · Grade 1.1

Success factors of horizontal acquisitions in the German Mittelstand, mapped across four deal phases and six company functions, then turned into a buy-side checklist.

QuestionIf the M&A process is this well documented, why do acquisitions still fail so regularly?
MethodSystematic literature review, with self-derived factors kept strictly separate from sourced ones.
OutputA 6 × 4 success-factor matrix and a practice-oriented checklist for the buyer.

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04 Education

A widening lens, not a straight line

01

Foundation

B.Sc. Business Administration — Grade 1.2

The bachelor thesis on horizontal acquisitions in German SMEs (Grade 1.1) was the first piece of work that pointed toward M&A rather than general management.

02

International

Kajaani UAS · Aalto University, Helsinki

Two exchange semesters in Finland — GPA 4.0/4.0 at Kajaani, and currently a semester at Aalto focused on finance and strategy.

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Specialization

M.Sc. Business Administration — Goethe University Frankfurt

Finance focus, alongside the corporate strategy role at Viega. Deutschlandstipendium — Academic Excellence Award.