Investment Banking Associate CMG

Barclays•New York, NY

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Join us as an Investment Banking Associate CMG at Barclays where you’ll have the chance to provide innovative financial solutions tailored to our clients’ needs. You will be working on a variety of assets and assignments across the sector, while supporting the Communications and Media Group team. You’ll make use of your communication skills to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring fast and unparalleled customer service to our clients. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

Requirements

Experience building and maintaining complex models for media, telecom, and digital businesses to support strategic decision-making
Proficiency in interpreting and evaluating income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and complex debt structures
Experience in supporting high-profile transactions, including M&A, IPOs, and secondary offerings

Nice To Haves

Creating client-ready materials showcasing valuation, deal structures, and strategic insights
Collaborate with senior bankers and clients to deliver actionable recommendations and transaction updates
Conducting deep-dive research on communications and media sectors, including competitive benchmarking and trend forecasting

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.
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
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.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.