Investment Banker, Healthcare Coverage, Associate

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. 

The Healthcare team is a global team with over 35 bankers, with specialist teams in London, New York, Tokyo and Mumbai and country support elsewhere in Europe, Asia and also the US. There are currently 12 bankers in EMEA. Areas of expertise within the Healthcare team include Pharma, Pharma Services, Consumer Health, Generics, MedTech, Life Science Tools & Diagnostics and HC Services. Our clients include leading corporates and private equity funds.

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

Role description:

• Typical work includes a mix of client coverage and execution including: Financial analysis, preparing high-quality pitchbooks, 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 Equity Private Placement
• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types including: Sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A and leveraged buyouts
• Broad engagement across teams / groups, for example:  M&A, Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsors, DCM and Structured and Risk solutions (e.g., IR or FX derivatives)
• Involvement in broad range of deals, for example: sell-side, buy-side, financings, and capital raises

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• A proven background in Corporate Finance from a bank / boutique advisory firm
• Previous experience in Healthcare sector is highly desired, but not a pre-requisite
• Excellent financial modelling experience (operating models, merger models, LBO, etc )
• Experience in buy-side and sell-side M&A
• Project management: ability to manage teams to deliver to client needs
• Strong communications and English writing skills: ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients and produce high quality materials
• 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

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