UK&I Investment Banking - Associate

Job Description:

Job Title: UK&I Investment Banking - Associate

Corporate

Title:

Associate

Location:
London, United Kingdom

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth. This includes our commitment to being an inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve. Bank of America is committed to an in-office culture with specific requirements for office-based attendance and which allows for an appropriate level of flexibility for our teammates and businesses based on role-specific considerations.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact. Join us!

As part of the UK and Ireland Investment Banking team you will help advise listed and private clients on the full range of strategic transactions. Working across all sectors and product types, you will be involved in all aspects of regular client coverage and transaction execution, including as financial adviser and corporate broker to a large number of FTSE
100 and FTSE
250 clients.

• Provide strategic financial advice to corporate clients including listed companies, private equity and founder back businesses
• Undertake financial analysis including valuation, modelling, trading analysis and transaction comps
• Assume responsibility for monitoring and advising clients in terms of macro events, sector news flow and company events
• Support on transactions across the full range of strategic events including buyside and sellside M&A, de-mergers, P2
  
  Ps and private equity monetisations including IPOs (such support may include maintaining financial models, coordinating other advisers, due diligence and timetables)
• Research on companies and industries and support on client initiatives including generating and developing new ideas to present
• Formulate and develop client pitch‑books and analysis in addition to supporting other bankers within the team
• Build and maintain direct client relationships and also foster cross functional relationships with bankers in, sector, product and regional business units

• Team player who enjoys working with a wide variety of clients and colleagues
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills as well as proficient level of MS Excel and Power Point
• Meticulous attention to detail, diligence and conscientiousness
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills– ability to build and maintain client relationships
• Capable of working effectively both independently and with multiple teams/individuals
• Proactive, self starter with genuine interest in the industry and financial services
• Educated to degree level (preferably in a numerical discipline such as economics, finance or engineering)

Bank of America

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.

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