Investment Banker, Acquisition & Leveraged Finance, Senior Analyst - Junior Associate

Department overview:

Nomura's Investment Banking division provides an array of advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments and public-sector organizations around the world. Our global teams act as geographic, product and industry specialists, with a focus on domestic, regional and cross-border collaboration in M&A, DCM, acquisition finance and solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include Energy Infrastructure and Industrials, Consumer & Retail, FIG, Healthcare, Business Services, Media and Technology, and Financial Sponsors.

The group is a single platform providing debt financing for private equity clients across the sub-investment grade credit ratings spectrum. Our clients are typically financial sponsors who we support on both event driven (e.g. leveraged buyout) and non-event driven transactions (refinancings, amend and extend transactions), involving a variety of debt products such as leveraged loans (TLBs), 2nd lien loans, private credit (direct lending) transactions and high yield bonds.

Role Description:

Assist in all aspects of deal execution from marketing to closing:

·       Development of client presentation, structuring and execution activities.

·       Cashflow & financial modelling

·       Benchmarking, comparables and analysis of company financial information, including credit metric statistics needed

·       Detailed credit analysis including due diligence and the management of the internal credit approval process

·       Preparation and support around the syndication of executed transactions (e.g. information memorandum and bank presentation preparation and roadshow materials)

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Essential

·       Experience in Leveraged Finance

·       General understanding of debt / leveraged finance products and the European leveraged finance capital markets

·       Ability to multi-task efficiently in a fast-paced environment

·       Strong communications skills – ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients

·       Team work – experience working in a project based environment with tight deadlines and as part of a broader team

·       Ability to understand companies’ business models and credit analysis in general

·       Strong analytical skills and numerical abilities, including familiarity with financial modelling

Nomura competencies

Culture & Conduct

·       Contributes to desired culture

·       Aware of different values / styles

·       Maintains own and holds others to high standards of behavior

·       Seeks to develop

·       Aware of impact of own strengths / weaknesses

·       Learns from experience

 Client-Centricity & Business Acumen

·       Demonstrates understanding of current market

·       Anticipates client needs

·       Pays attention to detail, synthesizes accurately

·       Sees problems, recommends solutions

 Strategy & Innovation

·       Articulates own contributions to divisional and firm-wide strategy

·       Embraces and balances new / differing ways of thinking / working

·       Makes decisions appropriate to their role, knows when and how to escalate

·       Knows when / how to compromise

·       Responds positively to changing needs and circumstances

·       Is able to change direction quickly

 Leadership & Collaboration

·       Proactively participates in own and others' performance year

·       Assists in recruiting and on boarding new team members

·       Gives credit to others for positive contributions

·       Builds collaborative and productive working relationships

·       Provides on-the-job training to colleagues

·       Provides and listens to constructive, timely and specific feedback to resolve conflict

 Communication & Connectivity

·       Adjusts communication style to suit topic / audience

·       Balances listening / talking

·       Communicates ideas and issues clearly and with consideration

·       Questions to understand others’ views

·       Is a proven and credible resource

·       Builds internal network

·       Willingly works with others to share information

 Execution & Delivery

·       Maintains positive commitment to results

·       Takes on challenging assignments

·       Executes priority actions on-time

·       Keeps stakeholders updated, manages expectations

·       Persists when confronted with resistance

·       Seeks, listens to and accepts feedback