Investment Banking Associate

Key responsibilities

• Development of various types of financial models to value debt and equity for mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising transactions.
• Perform various valuation methods: comparable companies, precedents, and DCF.
• Develop recommendations for product offerings, private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and valuations.
• Conduct preparation and review of materials used in the financing of clients, including investment memoranda, management presentations and pitchbooks.
• Develop relationships with new and existing clients in order to expand the business.
• Perform due diligence, research, analysis, and documentation of live transactions.
• Create presentations for client portfolios.
• Affinity for current events, critical issues, and relevant news.

Relevant skills, knowledge, and experience

• MBA (Associate position) or equivalent education, training and work-related experience.
• Bachelor’s degrees (Analyst position) from a target school, or equivalent
• Three or more years of experience (Associate position) in a finance or business background, particularly on the quantitative side
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-based environment with minimal supervision.
• Working knowledge of deal structuring and closing principals.
• Strong communication and networking skills.
• Impeccable research, quantitative and analytical skills, especially in explaining market events.
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to organize and track overlapping tasks and assignments, with frequent priority changes.
• Strong financial modeling skills.