Investment Bank M&A, AVP

Join Barclays as an Investment Bank M&A, AVP, where you will play a pivotal role in advising clients on high-profile, multi-layered transactions. As a key member of the M&A group, you will be actively involved in live deal execution, working closely with both strategic corporations and supporting private equity firms.

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic, valuation analysis, negotiation, and deal structuring support on public and private mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures, and identify, evaluate, and execute on potential deals.

Responsibilities

• Collaboration with Coverage and Capital Markets groups, as well as cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and other stakeholders, to originate and execute successful M&A transactions.
• Conducting in-depth financial analysis, including modeling and valuation, to assess potential M&A opportunities, risks and mitigation actions, alongside their impact on clients' financial positions and alignment with the clients’ strategic objectives.
• Structuring the deal and negotiating terms, collaborating with legal and financial colleagues to ensure that the deal is fair from a financial point of view.
• Coordination of client’s due diligence processes, including tax, legal, financial, and operational assessments of potential target companies.
• Management of various aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring they progress efficiently and meet client expectations.
• Advise and influence decision-making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with other functions/business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives, and determination of reward outcomes.
• For individual contributors, lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for inclusion of other areas of specialization to complete assignments.
• Identify new directions for assignments and/or projects, combining cross-functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and develop new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work closely related to that of other areas, requiring understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the organization sub-function objectives.
• Collaborate with other areas of work for business-aligned support to keep up to speed with business activity and strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, both internal and external, to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information, which may include sensitive information or information that is difficult to convey due to content or audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

Requirements

To be successful as an Investment Bank M&A, AVP, you should have experience with:

• Large deal/transaction execution for corporate clients
• Public and private M&A, involved in fairness opinions
• Ample modeling, valuation, and financial assessment

Skills

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Overseeing a group of junior team members
• Ability to work with other teams and stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills with clients
• Risk and controls
• Change and transformation
• Business acumen
• Strategic thinking
• Digital and technology
• Job-specific technical skills

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence, and Stewardship, as well as the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge, and Drive.

Pay

Minimum Salary: $175,000
Maximum Salary: $225,000
The minimum and maximum salary information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

This role is located in New York and is regulated by FINRA.