Investment Banking Associate - Financial Sponsors Group

Barclays UK; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Join us as an Investment Banking Associate in the Financial Sponsors Group, where you'll be driving M&A, Leveraged Finance and ECM execution and origination support for our private equity clients across industry and geographic verticals in EMEA.

Barclays' Investment Banking division provides comprehensive financial advisory, capital raising, financing and risk management services to corporations, governments, and financial institutions worldwide. We take an integrated approach to client coverage, providing our clients with access to bankers who have industry and geography specific expertise across all investment banking products.

The Financial Sponsors Group originate and execute transactions across the investment banking product suite for our private equity clients’ portfolio investments, including LBO financing and capital structure management, buy side and sell side M&A, IPOs and follow on rights issues. The team is one of the leading private equity coverage groups in Europe.

To be successful as an Investment Banking Associate, you'll need:

• Solid analytical and modelling skills.
• Knowledge of accounting and financial concepts; ability to analyse and value businesses, assess credit risk.
• Robust process management and coordination skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Good understanding of professional ethics and regulatory environment.
• Demonstrate best in class professional integrity.

Some other highly valued skills include:

• Excellent academic background (a minimum of bachelor’s degree).
• Relevant experience including Leveraged Finance, M&A/Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, broader Investment Banking experience.
• Fluent in English; ability to communicate effectively in multiple languages is helpful.

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

This role will be based at 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London.

This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks.

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain relationships with clients, understand their needs, expectations and financial goals to develop and propose appropriate investment banking solutions for clients and their companies.

Accountabilities

• Development and maintenance of strong relationships with corporate clients by understanding their business, financial goals, and industry trends.
• Generation of ideas and identification of opportunities that expand the bank's client base and generate new business opportunities.
• In-depth financial analysis and due diligence on client companies to assess their financial health and valuation.
• Collaboration with legal and compliance teams to review, draft, and maintain legal documentation required for transactions, including contracts and agreements.
• Collaboration with other teams, such as Capital Markets, Sales and Trading, Research, and Risk Management, to provide comprehensive solutions to clients.
• Champion Energy Transition and Sustainability by engaging with clients on their climate, transition strategies and sustainable finance opportunities where applicable.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes.
• 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 lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc) to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.