Job Duties: Associate, Banker - Industry/Country Coverage with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New York. Review financial modeling work and presentations prepared for transactions, corporate board meetings, investment banking pitches, and client service projects on corporate finance topics, and review memoranda required to gain internal approvals from investment banking committees. Structure, analyze, and execute transactions on behalf natural resources sector companies. Review proprietary financial models, such as merger and acquisition (M&A), discounted cash flow (DCF), and leveraged buyout (LBO) valuations in the natural resources sector and help evaluate models to develop key judgments. Analyze client-prepared accounting and regulatory statements, debt and equity filings and documents, financial projections, and models. Performs data analysis to help clients make capital structure and M&A decisions. Oversee live deal execution in the natural resources sector, including running due diligence processes, negotiating non-disclosure agreements and other legal documents with lawyers and potential buyers, organizing and attending deal and non-deal roadshows, and liaising with other investment banks. Present to C-suite level corporate clients in the natural resources sector on topics such as strategic alternatives, capital markets activities, restructuring alternatives, and corporate governance issues at board meetings and pitches. Draft financing and offering documents and assist companies in preparation of materials to present to potential buyers of the companies or their securities.
Job Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, or a related field and two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in a related investment banking role. Prior employment must include two (2) years of experience with the following: building and reviewing financial models in excel or related spreadsheet tools including operating models, M&A and LBO valuations and models that incorporate corporate finance concepts, risk return dynamics and GAAP and non-GAAP (for foreign equivalent) principles for companies within the natural resources sector; M&A or other technical corporate finance experience including executing debt or equity financing transactions more than $100 million and executing public mergers and acquisitions transactions more than $500 million; executing M&A transactions involving deal origination, information memorandum preparation, strategic and financial partner approach strategies, valuation and combination analyses, transaction negotiation and fairness opinions and board presentations; drafting and reviewing securities offering documents, sale and purchase agreements and other legal contracts for complex financial transactions, such as M&A and complex debt and equity financings; executing detailed analysis of the pro forma impact of debt, equity and other capital issuances, spin-offs, divestitures, and changes in capital allocation policies including dividend and share repurchases; developing complex presentations and presenting to clients on M&A, corporate strategy and financing alternatives; and managing multiple live work streams, coordinate with clients, external counsels, co-advisors, and senior deal team members to ensure smooth execution of deals. Domestic and international travel required 10% of the time to attend client meetings and industry conferences. All travel expenses covered by Firm.
Salary Range: Annual base salary for this New York, New York-based position is $150,000 - $225,000.
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