Investment Banker, Consumer & Retail Coverage, Associate

Job Title:                      Investment Banker, Consumer & Retail Coverage        

Corporate Title:           Associate

Department:                Investment Banking   

Location:                     London

Department overview:

Nomura’s investment banking division provides a vast 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 and solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include Consumer, FIG, Industrials, Natural Resources and Power, and Financial Sponsors.

Consumer and Retail Coverage is one of the leading teams at Nomura with a growing list of high profile clients that have provided us with high profile assignments since 2008. We deliver the full suite of Nomura's products and services to our clients who primarily include well-known corporates and financial sponsors.

To capitalize on its strong momentum and significant deal flow in EMEA, the Consumer and Retail Coverage Group is looking to hire an Associate who can support the strong growth witnessed across its client franchise.

Key objectives critical to success:

• Typical work includes a mix of execution and client coverage including: financial analysis, financial due diligence, process management and client deal team interaction
• Required to co-ordinate and work with all other product, geography and industry teams, including: M&A, Leveraged Finance and Debt Capital Markets
• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types including: sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A, equity raising and leveraged buyouts
• Broad engagement across teams / groups, for example:  M&A, Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsors, DCM, Structured Equity / Debt and Risk Solutions (e.g., IR or FX derivatives).
• Involvement in broad range of deals, for example: sell-side, buy-side, financings, PE funds and SWFs.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• A proven background (2+ years) in Corporate Finance from either a bank/ boutique advisory firm or the Corporate Finance, Modelling and Valuation, Transaction Services groups of a large accounting firm.
• Previous experience in Consumer & Retail sector is desired, but by no means a pre-requisite. 
• Excellent financial modelling experience (e.g. operating models, merger models, LBO)
• Experience in buy-side and sell-side M&A
• Project management: ability to manage teams to deliver to client needs
• Strong communications skills: ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients
• Outstanding analytical skills, including ability to perform data analysis
• Team work: experience of working in a project based environment with tight deadlines
• Strong academic record

Nomura competencies

Explore Insights & Vision

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.

Making Strategic Decisions

• Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.

Inspire Entrepreneurship in People

• Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.

Elevate Organizational Capability

• Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.

Inclusion

• Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).