Experienced Associate - Investment Banking, Industrials
At a glance
Junior Investment & Corporate Development role at Guggenheim Securities. Los Angeles · full-time · $175,000–$225,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Run advisory and financing deals day to day, coordinating execution from preparation through closing
- Build financial models and valuation work, using company records, forecasts, and industry data to assess options
- Study market shifts, competitors, and public-company results to surface client solutions and new opportunities
- Prepare transaction materials and presentations, and help shape pitches with ideas grounded in analysis
- Develop client relationships through regular engagement, offering financial and industry insight on core accounts
What you bring
- At least a bachelor’s degree plus three or more years in investment banking, or an MBA
- Professional experience with core financial modeling and valuation
- You must obtain the SIE, Series 79, and Series 63 within 150 days after starting
Who this fits
This associate role suits an experienced investment banker comfortable with transaction execution, detailed analysis, and client contact. You’ll work with senior bankers and company executives, and the role calls for collaboration, initiative, and limited-supervision work. The position is based in Los Angeles, with office attendance expected at least four days each week.
From the employer
Job Description:
Guggenheim Securities
Position Summary
The Global Industrials Group in Los Angeles is a rapidly growing and critically important strategic initiative for Guggenheim Securities (“GS”). Our Associates play an integral role in evolving and enhancing our client relationships and are active participants throughout the life of a transaction and beyond. Our Associates benefit tremendously from the experience and partnership they have with our Senior Managing Directors, Managing Directors, Vice Presidents, and Analysts. We pride ourselves on the dedication we give to our Associates development, which in turn helps assist in supporting and cultivating our growing team of Analysts. We work to constantly assist in developing our Associates marketing, sales, analytical, and communication skills.
GS offers an unparalleled opportunity to work as part of small client teams on major strategic and financing assignments, providing meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives. Candidates should be top performers who are willing to work hard in a dynamic environment where initiative, creativity, maturity, and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued.
Essential Job Functions
- Lead day-to-day project management and oversee execution on a range of advisory and financing transactions
- Develop and oversee financial and accounting analyses and help identify, research, and analyze M&A and financing opportunities
- Analyze and manage the analysis of market trends, competitive landscapes, and publicly traded company financials to identify potential client solutions and new market opportunities
- Develop and monitor the development of complex financial models for a broad range of corporate finance alternatives
- Perform financial and valuation analysis using both industry standard and proprietary models
- Analyze and supervise the analysis of current and past accounting and financial records to advise management through financial projections preparation
- Integrate strategy ideas derived from various analyses, forecasts, business plans, and research into presentations for various stakeholders
- Conduct due diligence investigations of client companies to ascertain the soundness of their business model and forecasts
- Transaction evaluation, preparation, due diligence, and execution of transactions; and managing the preparation of marketing materials including teasers, information memoranda, and other transaction-related documentation
- Help lead deal pitches including idea generation
- Act as the financial and strategic advisor for clients of core accounts in conjunction with senior coverage officers
- Build and develop relationships with clients through ongoing engagement and demonstration of financial and industry knowledge
- Generate potential ideas and new business opportunities to clients to help solve problems
Preferred Qualifications
- Significant level of maturity and the ability to work as a team interfacing with top company executives and senior management
- Highly organized, with the initiative and ability to work with limited supervision
- Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Effective process management abilities
- Sell-side advisory experience is a plus
Basic Qualifications
- Requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years of investment banking experience or an MBA degree
- Core modeling and valuation experience in professional setting
- SIE Exam, Series 79 and Series 63 must be acquired within 150 days of employment
Work Location
- Currently, this role is expected to be in the Los Angeles office at least 4 days per week.
Salary
- Annual base salary between $175,000 and $225,000.
- The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.
About Us:
Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, a global investment and advisory firm. Guggenheim Securities offers services that fall into four broad categories: Advisory, Financing, Sales and Trading, and Research. Guggenheim Securities is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Houston.
For applicants applying to our California offices, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in accordance with applicable local ordinances.
For more information, please visit GuggenheimSecurities.com, follow us on LinkedIn or contact us at GSLateralRecruiting@guggenheimpartners.com or 212.518.9200.
Guggenheim Securities, LLC (“GS”) does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications. GS considers any resume or application to be unsolicited if (a) received from an entity or individual without a current recruiting agreement with GS or (b) submitted to anyone at the firm other than through the process set forth in the recruiting agreement between GS and the submitting entity or individual, and GS will not pay a fee to any entity or individual for such submission.