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The Energy Transition Group (ETG) is a leading advisory franchise covering Energy, Power & Utilities and Renewables and Climate Tech sectors. We provide a wide range of investment banking services including M&A, and strategic advice as well as equity and debt capital market solutions. In joining us as a Vice President, you’ll take a lead within the team on research and analysis of the ETG sector with a particular focus on Power & Utilities and autonomously manage client relationships when required. This will include company valuations, finance modelling, marketing materials and transaction documentation. Mergers and Acquisitions will be a central focus for this team, you'll play a key role in both origination and execution of these transactions.
To be successful as an Investment Banking Vice President, you'll need:
- Strong M&A and financing skills
- First class experience required of complex financial modelling, valuation techniques, presentation preparation, due diligence and financial analysis
- Experience in supporting deal origination: participating in client meetings, helping generate ideas, writing presentations and handling client follow up
- Ability to mentor and manage junior bankers, ensuring quality and consistency in deliverables.
- A solid track record of executing transactions in the sector
- Excellent analytical skills with familiarity with advanced Excel and PowerPoint
- Fluency in English; additional European languages are advantageous.
Some Other Highly Valued Skills Include
- Appropriate level of experience working within Investment Banking Power & Utilities Coverage
- Team player able to work effectively in a team environment
- Excellent internal and external stakeholder management
- Strong understanding of professional ethics and regulatory environment
You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The position is based in our London Office.
This role is deemed as a Certified role under the PRA & UK Financial Conduct Authority - Individual Accountabilities Regulations and may require the role holder to hold mandatory regulatory qualifications or the minimum qualifications to meet internal company benchmarks
Purpose of the role
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
Accountabilities
- 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. .
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
