UK remote
Investment Banking Senior Associate, Technology
About this role
Solutions for Today’s Challenges. Vision for Tomorrow’s Opportunities. Join William Blair, the Premier Global Partnership. Support investment banking activities including new business development, transaction execution and the delivery of investment banking products and services to clients and prospects. Perform extensive analysis and research such as financial modeling, apply valuation methods, and support due diligence activities.
Work closely with client staff to advance projects, gathering necessary information, performing complex financial modeling outcomes and presenting analysis. Provide training and mentorship to Analysts. Responsibilities include but may not be limited to: Perform extensive financial/valuation analyses to value debt and equity for mergers, acquisitions and capital raising transactions. Utilize creative approaches to analyses that illustrate key concepts/messages.
Carefully review and provide guidance to Analysts’ work. Build advanced financial models to value potential and actual clients and/or industries, leveraging broad understanding of valuation and broad finance/accounting topics. Demonstrate thorough knowledge of multiple client sectors. Assimilate information to perform insightful analyses. Lead due diligence, research, analysis and documentation of potential and live transactions.
Anticipate potential deal issues and pass concerns through to team members in real time. Actively participates in presentation development and hypothesis testing to highlight financial analysis and research results. Develop, produce and deliver proposals and presentations to clients and prospects, which exhibit broad knowledge of IB product solutions and underlying components. Engage, with analysts, in the development of marketing materials that highlight the competitive advantage of William Blair.
Actively participate in client meetings and drafting sessions. Research and expand expertise of industries and/or sectors. Leverage knowledge to target certain clients or industries. Monitor key industry drivers. Offer insights into business trends in sector to facilitate processes. Evaluate and improve BIC content. Identify improvements to processes and propose solutions to complete tasks more efficiently. Take ownership of client relationships.