Associate, Investment Banking

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Job Description

Successful candidates will support deal teams with a wide variety of tasks around our M&A advisory mandates. In particular, an Associate’s work will typically cover the following:

• Work with clients and participate in the execution of cross-border M&A transactions


• Provide support to senior investment banking professionals to develop marketing leads and ideas to generate new business


• Define and prepare financial and technical analysis for various M&A engagements covering both public and private companies, including sellside, buyside, corporate carve-outs, and cross-border M&A situations


• Assisting senior bankers in process management, e.g. due diligence


• Support negotiations and preparation of key transaction documents including confidentiality agreements, merger agreements, sale & leaseback agreements, share / asset purchase agreements, other ancillary documents and deal marketing materials


• Conduct due diligence and assess seller’s and target’s business plans, growth prospects and financial performance


• Perform valuation analysis and apply diverse methodologies, including comparable company analysis, precedent transaction analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and discounted cash flow analysis


• Attend and actively participate in meetings with client’s senior team members


• A wide variety of other tasks to support the diverse activities of M&A advisory

Requirements

• First-rate quantitative and accounting skills – having a deep understanding of valuation and broad finance and able to be both hands-on as well as guide and challenge juniors in financial modeling


• Experience working on deals through the entire execution phase, with background on cross-border mandates welcomed


• Strong client management skills – showing confidence, competence and ability to earn the trust and respect of client teams such that clients are comfortable in contacting him/her re. daily tasks


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, committed and cheerful work ethic, a “team player,” organized with high level of attention to detail


• Good leadership mindset – able to facilitate more effective delivery by working with juniors to improve performance


• Additional foreign language fluency welcomed but not required


• Willingness to travel