M&a Vice President

We are looking for smart, energetic, diligent, team-oriented and experienced M&A professionals.

The Senior Associate/Vice President role at Equiteq will play a critical part in client engagement, delivery and internal operations. You’ll be given a significant amount of responsibility including representing the firm as the day-to-day client contact, leading transaction workstreams, owning financial and qualitative analyses, and contributing significantly to origination / pitch efforts.

We are committed to providing our people with the opportunity and support to further advance their careers as successful senior investment banking professionals and leaders within our unique, global, and growth-driven platform.

**Key Responsibilities and Challenges**:

- To lead the point contact for day-to-day execution on transaction advisory mandates across a variety of segments within the knowledge economy
- To design, build, and manage discounted cash flow, leveraged buyout and merger consequences models for live and contemplated M&A transactions
- To lead on the preparation of effective pitch books contributing to the marketing effort of the firm
- Mentoring and training of Analyst level bankers, while driving excellence through best practice
- To maintain client relations during the deal execution period and building industry-specific expertise
- To have regular contact with other internal teams within Equiteq to ensure smooth communication across groups and sharing of best practices
- To conduct research and analysis on Equiteq’s clients and prospects as well as industry sub-sectors and contribute ideas for those clients and prospects

**What are we looking for?**

**Knowledge & Experience**:

- Likely to have 5-7 years investment banking experience from an investment bank, boutique or accountancy firm and looking to step into a project leadership role
- Deep experience and understanding of the M&A process and relevant commercial considerations - ability to translate knowledge into valuable client advice
- Demonstrated project management skills - ability to manage complex workstreams and team dynamics towards successful outcomes under demanding timeframes
- Strong written and presentational skills - ability to drive key points backed by a deliberate thought process
- Ability to effectively interact with client management teams, boards of directors, and 3rd party advisors and stakeholders
- Experience in training, supervising and quality assuring Analysts’ work product
- Experience in leading aspects of client pitches
- Sound judgment, particularly in valuation matters, with strong analytic skills
- Business services/consulting sector M&A experience highly valued

**Attributes**:

- Integrity - Doing what is “right” by our clients and colleagues, without compromise
- Cultural leadership - Team-oriented, high EQ, thinking globally
- Commercial maturity - Good commercial awareness, decision-making and presentability
- Mentorship - Leadership and accountability in professional development of junior bankers
- Commitment - To your craft, a strong sense of pride and high expectations for quality of work and results

**Our values**

At Equiteq, our values are central to what we do and how we show up for our colleagues and clients:

- **Achievement**: We are driven by attaining measurable success for our clients, our colleagues, our firm and ourselves.
- **Empathy**: We are excellent at understanding entrepreneurs. We are comfortable stepping into difficult, uncertain situations and figuring out a path forward, with competent humility. We know when to do the banking work and when to focus on human connections. We treat our clients as the savvy entrepreneurs that they are and listen, so that we can help them realize their vision.
- **Integrity**: What we do is consistent with what we say. We define expectations and meet those, every time.
- **Teamwork**: We value collaboration; we value our team. We work together to produce the best outcomes for our clients. We gravitate to working in teams even when solo work might be more efficient, easier, or faster.
- **Entrepreneurial**: We understand entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs ourselves. We all think and act like owners, which means we care passionately about our clients, our reputation, and our success

**Diversity, equality and inclusion