Investment Banking Analyst
About The Position
Harris Williams seeks to hire an Investment Banking Analyst to join the Cleveland, Ohio office. Harris Williams will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position. About Harris Williams We are a global investment bank specializing in M&A and private capital advisory services. Clients worldwide rely on us to help unlock value in their business and turn ambitious goals into reality. We approach every engagement with boundless collaboration, pooling expertise and relationships across industries, service offerings, and geographies. For over 35 years, our clients have trusted us to think strategically, execute precisely, and deliver premium outcomes to help them grow. We are ambitious in our goals and steadfast in the belief that clients deserve our very best. To achieve our highest aspiration, we invest in world-class, team-oriented individuals who are smart, driven, and principled – those who are eager to be part of something bigger than themselves. When you join Harris Williams, you are welcomed into a collegial environment where every individual can make an impact in a powerful and significant way. We invite you to learn more about careers at Harris Williams.
Requirements
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.
- Bachelors degree.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail
- Business Acumen
- Creativity
- Customer Experience Management
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
- Effective Communications
- Leadership
- Managing Multiple Priorities
- Taking Ownership
- Teamwork
Nice To Haves
- Preference for existing experience within leveraged finance, investment banking, private credit, debt advisory, or capital markets.
- An eagerness to learn about a broad array of transaction types, industries, and financing structures.
- Strong organization skills, managing multiple deadlines and priorities with a high degree of ownership and attention to detail.
- The ability to work closely with a small team of internal senior professionals and develop relationships with peers.
- Approach all tasks with humility, collegiality and enthusiasm together with teammates
- View challenging tasks as opportunities for growth
- Share ideas and credit among peers and teammates
- Learn from mentors
- Are curious self-starters
- Exhaust available resources before asking senior deal team members for guidance
- Ask questions and offer creative suggestions as you grow into the role
- Are responsive
- Answer emails and calls quickly
- Clarify deadlines as needed
- Find moments of levity even when working long hours
- Stay aligned with your team on active workstreams and upcoming tasks
- Take pride in your work product
- Quality check your work and the work of your teammates to ensure accuracy before handing up the chain
- Seek feedback from your teammates/peers during and after key deliverable completion
- Ask “What’s next?” and work ahead instead of waiting for direction from your team
- Articulate thoughts and ideas to your teammates on day 1, both verbally and in writing
- As you gain confidence through experience, speak up during internal (Harris Williams deal team/colleagues) and external (client/C-suite facing) discussions, as directed by your deal team
Responsibilities
- Work with senior bankers across Harris Williams on capital markets transactions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings, and add-on M&A financings.
- Manage multiple projects and transactions simultaneously in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with significant exposure to senior bankers and clients.
- Coordinate with industry teams to provide leverage guidance and debt market insights for sell-side and buy-side M&A opportunities.
- Curate transaction marketing materials and financial models for potential and existing clients.
- Build lender lists for new opportunities utilizing comparable transaction data, market insights, and current sentiment.
- Manage deal process timelines, outreach tracking, and diligence request lists for live engagements.
- Communicate with deal team members and clients, including corporate executives, private equity investors, bank and private credit partners.
- Monitor leveraged finance market trends and build compelling materials that summarize them.
- Support relationship management with the most active lenders across the market and Harris Williams’ transactions.
- Actively participate in client and lender calls, meetings, and events.
Benefits
- medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature)
- dental and vision options
- employee and spouse/child life insurance
- short and long-term disability protection
- 401(k) with PNC match
- pension and stock purchase plans
- dependent care reimbursement account
- back-up child/elder care
- adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement
- educational assistance, including select programs fully paid
- a robust wellness program with financial incentives
- maternity and/or parental leave
- up to 11 paid holidays each year
- 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law
- between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level
- years of service
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
