Investment Banking Analyst - Energy (Summer 2027)

About the Role

Baird offers a different kind of start to a career in investment banking, built on high-performing teams and a culture that supports your growth. Here, you’ll build skills through real transactions, close collaboration with peers and mentors, and a culture focused on shared success. Join Baird’s Energy Investment Banking Group and work alongside a team with a proven track record of delivering comprehensive strategic advisory and capital markets services. Through active transactions, ongoing projects, and frequent dialogue with industry leaders, you’ll gain unique insight into the dynamics shaping the energy sector.

Responsibilities

• Learn by doing and be trusted with meaningful work from the jump
• Provide analytical support across mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and other financial advisory services
• Work with your team to prepare company valuations, build financial models, and create marketing materials
• Contribute to business development efforts through research, analysis, and preparation for client meetings and pitches
• Work side-by-side with both junior and senior investment bankers, gaining hands-on experience across every stage of a deal
• Use AI tools like Rogo and auxi to streamline the creation of pitch books and models
• Employ data visualization software like Power BI to generate data-driven insights and reports for client materials

What You’ll Gain

• The kind of environment that turns early talent into lasting careers
• Contribute to every stage of a transaction, from conducting research to facilitating due diligence
• Gain insight into how teams collaborate across geographies, sectors, and specialties to support client objectives
• Take on meaningful responsibility and contribute to conversations with investor and corporate management clients around the world
• Grow in a culture built on respect and shared values, where ambition and collaboration go hand-in-hand and hard work is recognized through opportunity

Requirements

• Winter 2026 or Spring 2027 graduation date required
• A proven academic record and a passion for finance (a finance degree is helpful, but not required)
• Drive, resilience, and a strong work ethic
• Ability to work independently and thrive in a collaborative setting
• Strong mathematical, writing, and verbal skills; relevant software proficiency
• SIE and Series 79 licensing preferred (or the ability to obtain them quickly)
• Experience with AI tools such as Rogo, CoPilot, and auxi is preferred
• Familiarity with data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar

Benefits

• Protected Friday night and Saturdays
• Periodic sabbaticals during career
• Shareholder opportunities
• Mandatory paid time off (PTO)
• Robust 401k match and profit-sharing contribution

Pay

$110,000 annual salary with bonus potential. Compensation and bonus are commensurate with experience, performance, and/or GIB profitability.