Vice President - Investment Banking

Grant Thornton Abdulaal Bahrain; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 400,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial advisory firm in Dammam is seeking a Vice President - Investment Banking to lead structured finance and capital markets transactions. Candidates should have 8-10 years of experience, strong financial modeling skills, and the ability to manage client relationships. Competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth available.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of relevant financial professional experience within a senior role.
• Proven proficiency in financial modeling and valuation skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, creative, and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of mandates across Structured Finance, Debt Capital, and Equity Capital Markets.
• Conduct research and valuation to execute transactions including due diligence.
• Finalize client presentations, proposals, engagement letters, and legal agreements.

Skills

Client management

Financial modeling

Analytical skills

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

About the job Vice President - Investment Banking

Grant Thornton Abdulaal Bahrain is hiring on behalf of a leading financial advisory firm based in Dammam. The firm is looking for a candidate with a strong background in finance or investment banking to lead the execution of mandates across Structured Finance, Debt Capital, and Equity Capital Markets transactions. Key responsibilities include building client relationships, understanding their needs, and delivering tailored financial solutions.

Roles and responsibilities

• Establish coverage, build relationship, understand clients requirements and recommend viable solutions
• Lead execution of mandates across clients for Structured Finance, Debt Capital and Equity Capital Markets Transactions
• Mentor teammates including supervision and training junior members / analysts in terms of origination, technical and execution skills
• Senior-level engagement execution on assignments
• Conducting research and valuation to execute transactions deals including conducting strategic research and due diligence investigations for issuance of debt / new equity raise / private equity placements
• Facilitate mergers and acquisitions and assist with corporate restructuring transactions
• Development of various types of financial models to value debt and equity for mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising transactions.
• Excellent ability to create a valuation models that includes trading and transaction comparable(s), DCF and LBO modeling, etc.
• Perform sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis to identify and quantify risks
• Keeping up-to-date with relevant regulatory/rule changes
• Finalise client presentations, proposals, engagement letters term sheets, legal agreements and offer memorandums.

Education Qualification and additional skills:

• Bachelors degree, preferably in business, finance, economics or related fields
• Masters degree (MBA or equivalent) will be an added advantage
• Strong financial modeling and valuation skills
• Team oriented approach with independent drive and maturity
• Ability to work in a fast paced creative and innovative environment
• Relevant transaction experience and strong client management skills
• Experience leading deal teams and interacting with senior personnel internally and externally
• 8 to 10 years of relevant financial professional experience within a senior role
• Impeccable research, quantitative and analytical skills.
• Proven proficiency in Microsoft Office products, especially Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to organize and track overlapping tasks and assignments, with frequent priority changes.

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