Investment Banking Analyst

Do you want to be part of an exciting growth story?

About us

Equiteq is a rapidly growing global middle-market boutique investment banking platform providing M&A and strategic advisory services to knowledge-intensive business services firms. With offices in New York, Boston, Atlanta, London, Singapore, and Sydney, Equiteq is the global M&A authority on services firms that constitute the fast-evolving knowledge economy.

We pride ourselves on being sector specialists who develop deep relationships with our clients to help them grow and realise value.

We are looking to hire people with a strong commitment to deliver excellent service to our clients, build their own skills and career, and with an entrepreneurial streak

About this role

This is an opportunity to be a significant contributor to a growing and highly utilised team. You'll hone your research, presentation and analysis skills through experience in the end-to-end M&A process.

As an Analyst within Equiteq, you'll have significant responsibility, advancement opportunities, client access and opportunities to work on a global platform.

Key Responsibilities and Challenges:

• Research and prepare presentations which identify and explain industry trends
• Prepare confidential operating as well as transactional models, information memorandums, presentations and marketing documents in support of sale transactions
• Support execution of mergers & acquisition advisory mandates with a holistic footprint across the transaction workstreams (marketing, due diligence, project management & coordination)
• Identify, build, and maintain relationships with prospective and existing clients

What we are looking for?

Knowledge & Experience:

• Exemplary academic record and demonstrated commitment to achievement
• Strong financial modelling and analytical skills, including knowledge of financial accounting
• Demonstrable intent to drive excellence through rigour and attention to detail across work tasks
• Highest quality communication skills with clients as well as internal teams
• Excellent industry analysis and ability to abstract trends and insights from primary data
• Proficiency with MS Office applications, knowledge of specific investment banking databases (e.g. CapitalIQ, Pitchbook) is a plus

Attributes:

• Personal Impact – able to build confidence quickly in order to be someone a client would want in their corner.
• Resilient – able to work under (at times, fairly intense) pressure with definitive deadlines. This person will be a self-starter with a high degree of accountability and self-confidence. Must be able to project a professional and calm demeanour in order to gain trust and confidence.
• Fastidious – have a methodical, process-driven nature that anticipates future project issues and problems before they occur.
• Strong Commitment - to the job with ability and willingness to work long hours and weekends when deadlines require it.

Education/Qualifications:

• Qualification to degree level in an appropriate discipline.

Our values

At Equiteq, our values are central to what we do and how we show up for our colleagues and clients:

• Achievement
  : We are driven by attaining measurable success for our clients, our colleagues, our firm and ourselves.
• Empathy
  : We are excellent at understanding entrepreneurs. We are comfortable stepping into difficult, uncertain situations and figuring out a path forward, with competent humility. We know when to do the banking work and when to focus on human connections. We treat our clients as the savvy entrepreneurs that they are and listen, so that we can help them realize their vision.
• Integrity
  : What we do is consistent with what we say. We define expectations and meet those, every time.
• Teamwork
  : We value collaboration; we value our team. We work together to produce the best outcomes for our clients. We gravitate to working in teams even when solo work might be more efficient, easier, or faster.
• Entrepreneurial
  : We understand entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs ourselves. We all think and act like owners, which means we care passionately about our clients, our reputation, and our success

Diversity, equality and inclusion

We are committed to making Equiteq a more diverse and inclusive workplace and recognise that starts with our approach to hiring but does not end. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds and commit that our hiring decisions will be based solely on an assessment of knowledge, skills and experience relevant to our role and our teams.