M&A Capital Markets Associate: Strategic Deals & Analytics

Candidate Experience Site - Lateral; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Goldman Sachs in New York is seeking an Investment Banking Associate to join the M&A Capital Markets (MACM) team. You will assist senior bankers in advising clients on complex merger-related matters, develop differentiated capital markets insights, and support deal execution across sectors and geographies.

You will work with cross-functional teams to analyze transaction structures, investor sentiment, valuation impacts, and event-driven dynamics, contributing to high-profile client assignments

Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to interact with clients and senior leaders.
• Ability to synthesize data into concise, client-ready slides, memos and talking points.
• Demonstrated interest in equity markets, investor behavior, corporate finance and the macro environment.
• Effective project management skills and the ability to prioritize competing projects and deadlines.
• Strong familiarity with company valuation concepts, including comparable company analysis, DCF, LBO and merger math.
• Exceptional quantitative and technical skills, ideally with statistics or data science.
• Strong team orientation and the ability to thrive in a small, collaborative environment with senior bankers across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Help senior bankers advise clients on merger-related matters.
• Architect and negotiate structured deal solutions for live M&A transactions.
• Leverage data to develop insights into the merger and equity markets for marketing and advisory use.
• Analyze trading patterns related to activism, mergers and corporate events.
• Interpret investor sentiment using feedback, trading desk color, market data, and third-party commentary.
• Analyze the financial and capital markets implications of novel transaction structures.
• Provide real-time judgment and insight into trading dynamics in hostile or leaked M&A situations.
• Assess the impact of acquisitions and separations on client valuations and equity stories.
• Oversee, quality-control and enhance the group’s proprietary datasets.

Skills

Communication

Slides & Memos

Equity markets

Project management

Valuation concepts

Quantitative skills

Team orientation

Job description

Goldman Sachs in New York is seeking an Investment Banking Associate to join the M&A Capital Markets (MACM) team. You will assist senior bankers in advising clients on complex merger-related matters, develop differentiated capital markets insights, and support deal execution across sectors and geographies.

You will work with cross-functional teams to analyze transaction structures, investor sentiment, valuation impacts, and event-driven dynamics, contributing to high-profile client assignments