Corporate Finance Role - Investment Banking

About This Role:

Corporate & Investment Banking delivers a comprehensive suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services. A trusted partner to our clients, we provide corporate and transactional banking, commercial real estate lending and servicing, investment banking, equity, and fixed income solutions including sales, trading, and research capabilities to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients across the globe.

In This Role You Will:

The Corporate Finance (CF) group within Corporate and Investment Banking is seeking a Securities Research Associate to join its Bangalore office with corporate title as Assistant Vice President.

The Corporate Finance (CF) team provides differentiated and value-added content and advice for key clients and for bankers and product specialists across CIB. The CF practice provides product agnostic financing / M&A structuring advice, liability management, credit ratings advice, and technical expertise on tax, accounting, and structuring matters.

Analysts have an unparalleled opportunity to work with senior bankers in small project teams.

Analysts will support bankers on preparing pitch books for client meetings. Key work areas would include:

- Advising clients on policy decisions such as optimal capital structure, capital allocation, return of capital etc. utilizing modeling and quantitative tools

- Offering solutions on various corporate finance topics such as cost of capital, valuation, leverage, liquidity, share repurchases, dividend payouts, pensions etc.

- Advise on complex M&A and strategic separations / subsidiary redeployment (spinoffs, split-offs, Reverse Morris Trusts), IPO structures, dispositions, cross-border M&A, structuring, JV structure, joint bids, break-ups etc.

- Supporting end-to-end deal execution processes from model development to client pitch to transaction execution.

- Create complex excel models to analyze large data sets and aim to incorporate VBA/Python automation in-order to reduce time required to execute such models.

- Employees support our focus on building strong customer relationships balanced with a strong risk mitigating and compliance-driven culture which firmly establishes those disciplines as critical to the success of our customers and company. They are accountable for execution of all applicable risk programs (Credit, Market, Financial Crimes, Operational, Regulatory Compliance), which includes effectively following and adhering to applicable policies and procedures, appropriately fulfilling risk and compliance obligations, timely and effective escalation, and remediation of issues, and making sound risk decisions.

Required Qualifications:

- 2+ years of Securities Research experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

Desired Qualifications:

- Investment banking experience of 2+ years post MBA / CA (CFA certification would be an added advantage)

- Ability to prioritize work, meet deadlines, achieve goals, and work under pressure in a dynamic and complex environment

- Strong analytical, quantitative, and statistical skills

- Strong financial modeling and presentation skills

- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Strong attention to detail and accuracy skills

- Familiar with US company filings and accounting standards

- Experience in Business Execution, Implementation, or Strategic Planning, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education