Barclays Investment Bank · 5 months ago
Investment Bank M&A VP
745 7th Avenue, New York
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$250K/yr - $275K/yrBarclays Investment Bank is seeking an Investment Bank M&A VP to provide strategic analysis and support on mergers and acquisitions. The role involves conducting financial assessments, negotiating terms, and managing M&A transactions while collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure successful deal execution.
BankingFinancial Services
Responsibilities
Collaboration with Coverage and Capital Markets groups, as well as cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and other stakeholders, to originate and execute successful M&A transactions.
Conducting in-depth financial analysis, including modelling and valuation, to assess potential M&A opportunities, risks and mitigation action, alongside their impact on clients' financial positions and alignment with the clients’ strategic objectives.
Structuring the deal and negotiating terms, collaborating with legal and financial colleagues to ensure that the deal is fair from a financial point of view
Coordination of client’s due diligence processes, including tax, legal, financial, and operational assessments of potential target companies.
Management of various aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring they progress efficiently and meet client expectations.
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements
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 be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes
Qualification
Required
Experience with large deal/transaction execution for corporate clients
Experience in public and private M&A, involved in fairness opinions
Ample modeling, valuation and financial assessment
Collaboration with Coverage and Capital Markets groups, as well as cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and other stakeholders, to originate and execute successful M&A transactions
Conducting in-depth financial analysis, including modelling and valuation, to assess potential M&A opportunities, risks and mitigation action, alongside their impact on clients' financial positions and alignment with the clients' strategic objectives
Structuring the deal and negotiating terms, collaborating with legal and financial colleagues to ensure that the deal is fair from a financial point of view
Coordination of client's due diligence processes, including tax, legal, financial, and operational assessments of potential target companies
Management of various aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring they progress efficiently and meet client expectations
To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change
Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures
If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department's future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes
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
Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment
Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda
Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does
Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies
Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives
In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions
Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes
Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes
Preferred
Overseeing a group of junior team members
Ability to work with other teams and stakeholders
Excellent communication skills with clients
Company
Barclays Investment Bank
Barclays Investment Bank offers large corporate clients with strategic advisory, financing, and risk management solutions. It is a sub-organization of Barclays Corporate Banking.
Founded in 1997
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Richard Lowe
Managing Director Head of London Industry and Central London
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Sean White
Managing Director
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