GBM Private, IB Classic, M&A Capital Markets, Vice President - New York

Goldman Sachs • New York, NY

2d • $150,000 - $300,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Investment Banking team works on the most complex financial challenges and transactions in the market today. Whether advising on a merger, providing financial solutions for an acquisition, or structuring an initial public offering, we handle projects that help clients at major milestones. We work with corporations, pension funds, financial sponsors, and governments and are a team of strong analytical thinkers, who have a passion for producing out-of-the-box ideas
Opportunity
The M&A Capital Markets (“MACM”) team is an integral part of the M&A advisory business, responsible for providing differentiated advice on unique or complex merger matters. MACM provides capital markets insights and judgments on all aspects of strategic transactions, ranging from negotiating merger consideration to predicting and analyzing event-driven trading dynamics. The team has a broad mandate, pitching and executing mergers and separations across sectors, market caps and geographies.
MACM is looking for a new hire to join the team as a Vice President or Senior Associate. The position provides the opportunity to build a deep understanding of the M&A business, as well as the ability to have an immediate impact on some of the highest-profile transactions the firm works on each year. This individual is expected to take ownership of key workstreams, produce and present analysis to client management teams, and manage and mentor junior professionals in a small, close-knit group.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant investment banking experience (equity capital markets and/or M&A)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to interact with clients and senior internal leaders
• Exceptional quantitative and technical skills, ideally with experience in statistics or data science
• Demonstrated interest in and understanding of equity markets and the macroeconomic environment
• Strong familiarity with company valuation concepts (comparable multiples, DCF, LBO, etc.) and merger math
• Familiarity with basic derivatives concepts (e.g., call / put pricing, delta, etc.)
• Effective project management skills with ability to prioritize competing projects and deadlines
• Intellectual curiosity and creativity
• Self-motivated with strong initiative, ownership mentality, and excellent work ethic
• Enthusiasm for working with and mentoring junior bankers

Responsibilities

• Helping senior bankers across Investment Banking advise clients on a diverse set of merger-related matters
• Architecting and negotiating structured deal solutions (such as equity collars and cash/stock elections) on behalf of clients in live M&A transactions
• Leveraging data to create differentiated insights into the merger and equity markets for use in marketing and advisory
• Performing and presenting analyses to identify trading patterns related to activism, mergers and other corporate events, including M&A buyer reactions, merger arb, index fund trading, and activist accumulation
• Interpreting investor sentiment around transactions by synthesizing investor feedback, trading desk color, market data, research, and third-party commentary
• Analyzing the financial and capital markets impacts of novel transaction structures
• Providing real-time judgments and insight into trading dynamics in leaked, hostile, or contested M&A
• Gauging the impact of acquisitions and separations on pre- and post-closing client valuations and equity stories
• Overseeing, quality-controlling and enhancing the group’s proprietary datasets

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed