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Barclays Investment Bank · 5 days ago

Investment Banking Associate, Consumer and Retail Group (CRG)

745 7th Avenue, New York

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$175K/yr - $225K/yr

Barclays Investment Bank is a leading global financial services provider, and they are seeking an Investment Banking Associate for their Consumer and Retail Group. The role involves building client relationships, conducting financial analyses, and advising on strategic transactions within the consumer and retail sectors.

BankingFinancial Services

Responsibilities

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. 

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. 

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

Qualification

Investment Banking experienceFinancial statement analysisFinancial modelingConsumerRetail experienceStakeholder managementLive deal experienceManaging analystsRiskControlsBusiness acumenChangeTransformationDigitalTechnologyStrategic thinking

Required

Investment Banking experience

Experience with financial statement analysis, modelling, and marketing materials preparation

Preferred

Direct Consumer and Retail Investment Banking experience preferred

Live deal experience

Experience managing analysts

Stakeholder management with both internal and external stakeholders

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