Investment Bank M&A VP

Join Barclays as an Investment Bank M&A VP, where you will play a pivotal role in advising clients on high-profile, multi-layered transactions. As a key member of the M&A group, you will be actively involved in live deal execution, working closely with both strategic corporations and supporting private equity firms. Your responsibilities will include conducting in-depth assessments of potential deals, preparing and presenting strategic recommendations, and guiding clients through every stage of the transaction process.

This role is ideal for professionals with a robust background in private equity and financial sponsor deal execution, offering the opportunity to leverage your knowledge in a dynamic, fast-paced environment while contributing to some of the most significant deals in the market.

To be successful as an Investment Bank M&A VP, you should have experience with:

• Large deal/transaction execution for corporate clients
• Public and private M&A, involved in fairness opinions
• Ample modeling, valuation and financial assessment

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Overseeing a group of junior team members
• Ability to work with other teams and stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with clients

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in New York.

This role is regulated by FINRA.

Minimum Salary: $250,000

Maximum Salary: $275,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

To provide strategic, valuation analysis, negotiation and deal structuring support on public and private mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures and identify, evaluate, and execute on potential deals.

• Collaboration with Coverage and Capital Markets groups, as well as cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and other stakeholders, to originate and execute successful M&A transactions.
• Conducting in-depth financial analysis, including modelling and valuation, to assess potential M&A opportunities, risks and mitigation action, alongside their impact on clients' financial positions and alignment with the clients’ strategic objectives.
• Structuring the deal and negotiating terms, collaborating with legal and financial colleagues to ensure that the deal is fair from a financial point of view.
• Coordination of client’s due diligence processes, including tax, legal, financial, and operational assessments of potential target companies.
• Management of various aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring they progress efficiently and meet client expectations.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through…