Summary:

As an Investment Banking Vice President in Specialty Finance you will develop strong relationships with clients as you work across the full spectrum of investment banking products including mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, loans, and equity capital and debt capital raises.

Essential Functions/Responsibility Statements:

• Lead transactions including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, other equity capital markets activity, high yield debt issuance, and other debt issuance in the Specialty Finance sector.

• Analyze detailed corporate and financial information and conduct detailed due diligence.

• Perform financial modeling and analysis related to the valuation of companies including discounted cash flow, transaction comparables, public market comparables, leveraged buyout analysis, and public market overviews.

• Create pitch books and ideas to present to the clients on potential acquisitions, divestitures, and capital structure alternatives.

• Train analysts and associates.

• Lead day-to-day client dialogue, idea generation, and transaction execution.

• Build relationships with key decision-makers at companies in the Specialty Finance industry globally. Prospect new clients and develop client outreach skills.

• Requires up to 50% domestic, international travel.

Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent degree and/or equivalent work experience, in Finance, Business, or a related field.

• Master’s degree or MBA (Preferred).

Work Experience:

• Experience in Specialty Finance Investment Banking (6+ years with Bachelor's degree, 3+ years with MBA).

Skills and Abilities:

• Prior work experience in an Investment Banking front office role, ideally in Specialty Finance Investment Banking.

• Experience in training junior bankers.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Very strong quantitative and analytical skills (including Excel modelling and valuation work).

• Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines, and have the aptitude to synthesize large amounts of information and to develop innovative solutions.

• Ability to manage projects independently and assume a high level of responsibility.

• Ability to interact with clients.

• Ability to assess and mitigate reputational, operational and credit risk.

• Experience with sell-side and buy-side merger and acquisition processes and equity and debt capital raises.