Vice President, Corporate Development

NatWest Group; London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking a Vice President in Corporate Development to lead M&A transactions and provide strategic insights. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in investment banking, strong analytical skills, and ideally be a qualified accountant or financial analyst. This role operates in a hybrid work model, emphasizing both on-site collaboration and remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in investment banking, M&A advisory or corporate development.
• Exceptional analytical skills and financial modelling capabilities.
• Understanding of corporate law as it relates to M&A.

Responsibilities

• Lead M&A, investment and partnership transactions.
• Provide financial and strategic analysis for transactions.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

M&A advisory

Financial modelling

Strategic insight

Commercial awareness

Education

Qualified chartered accountant

Level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst

Job description

Join us as a Vice President, Corporate Development

• Joining our Corporate Development team as a Vice President, you'll advise on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) opportunities for the bank, providing in-house transaction advisory and execution services
• Undertake a lead role on M&A, investment and partnership transactions and complete analytical assessments of opportunities, with business transformation as a key deliverable
• Evaluate the overall value of a transaction to the bank, supporting the accountable senior transaction lead and head of team
• This is an office-first job, so most of your time will be spent on site in our Londo n office

What you'll do

As a Vice President, you’ll take responsibility for ensuring that detailed financial and strategic analysis and due diligence is completed to a high standard and provide appropriate challenge to support and protect the bank’s interests in a transaction. You’ll alsoprovide insights to negotiate transactions on behalf of the bank, using sound judgement and reasoning to deliver optimal outcomes.

In addition, you’ll be:

• Providing support on a wide range of transaction assessments spanning both larger, more complex transactions and smaller deals
• Collaborating across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups and building effective working relationships across the bank and its external advisor network
• Creating, analysing and evaluating internal papers to see that appropriate financial rigour and reasoning have been applied in the submission, and the business case is aligned with the bank’s strategic priorities
• Using your technical and business knowledge to highlight areas where further analysis or detail is required, or points require further emphasis
• Presenting the analytical outputs, options and conclusions to senior colleagues
• Leading, monitoring and acting accordingly to make sure that the plan for the transaction and all risks, issues and dependencies are addressed
• Utilising market and competitor awareness to identify additional options and opportunities for the bank

The skills you'll need

You’ll bring extensive experience from one or more of the following: investment banking (such as M&A advisory or Financial Institution Group teams), a bank's inhouse corporate development team, corporate finance advisory teams or transaction services teams. It's also strongly preferred that you'll be either a qualified chartered accountant or a Level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Exceptional analytical and financial modelling capabilities, including detailed knowledge of financial accounting principles and valuation methodologies
• Strategic insight and commercial awareness
• Knowledge of regulatory capital and accounting standards
• An understanding of corporate law and how it affects M&A

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

06/08/2025 Ways of Working:Hybrid