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About the Role

William Blair, a Premier Global Partnership, seeks to hire an Investment Banking professional to execute in-depth analyses, perform research and financial modeling, and deliver investment banking products and services to clients. This role involves close collaboration with client staff, presenting complex financial outcomes, and mentoring junior team members.

Responsibilities

• Perform extensive financial/valuation analyses to value debt and equity for mergers, acquisitions, and capital raising transactions.
• Utilize creative approaches to analyses that illustrate key concepts/messages.
• Carefully review and provide guidance to Analysts’ work.
• Build advanced financial models to value potential and actual clients and/or industries, leveraging broad understanding of valuation and broad finance/accounting topics.
• Demonstrate thorough knowledge of multiple client sectors.
• Assimilate information to perform insightful analyses.
• Lead due diligence, research, analysis, and documentation of potential and live transactions.
• Anticipate potential deal issues and pass concerns through to team members in real time.
• Actively participate in presentation development and hypothesis testing to highlight financial analysis and research results.
• Develop, produce, and deliver proposals and presentations to clients and prospects, exhibiting broad knowledge of IB product solutions and underlying components.
• Engage, with analysts, in the development of marketing materials that highlight the competitive advantage of William Blair.
• Actively participate in client meetings and drafting sessions.
• Research and expand expertise of industries and/or sectors.
• Leverage knowledge to target certain clients or industries.
• Monitor key industry drivers.
• Offer insights into business trends in sector to facilitate processes.
• Evaluate and improve BIC content.
• Identify improvements to processes and propose solutions to complete tasks more efficiently.
• Take ownership of client relationships.
• Foster effective dialogue with finance and accounting staffs to facilitate processes.
• Anticipate needs and challenges and provide seamless solutions.
• Demonstrate an understanding of macro factors related to client industry, investment banking products, and potential implications.
• Act as “on the job” trainer for analysts, providing constructive feedback.
• Focus on improving the quality of analyst and summer intern work product.
• Ensure senior team knows the valuable contributions of all team members.
• Ensure all activities are in compliance with applicable rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Perform additional responsibilities as requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• MBA strongly preferred
• Prior investment banking experience required; 1+ years as an Investment Banking Associate covering biopharma strongly preferred
• Science background or prior experience working in biotechnology and/or related life sciences industry and/or life sciences consulting preferred
• Internship or prior work experience in financial services industry preferred
• SIE Exam, Series 79, and Series 63 must be acquired within 150 days of employment (for US only)
• Detail oriented with strong analytical abilities
• Excellent mathematical, writing, verbal and computer skills
• Ability to adapt to new tasks with little notice
• Ability to manage expectations of senior bankers while working on multiple projects simultaneously
• Effective leadership and coaching skills
• Strong desire to win
• Sound judgement
• Deep, sophisticated understanding of accounting and finance
• Commitment to satisfying internal and external customers
• Travel required: approximately 10% to 30%

Skills

• Financial modeling
• Valuation methods
• Due diligence
• Financial analysis
• Investment banking
• Client relationship management
• Leadership
• Coaching

Location

• US

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 1+ years as an Investment Banking Associate

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree
• MBA

Salary/Compensations

• $175,000—$175,000 USD

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus
• Commission-based incentives
• Medical coverage
• Dental coverage
• Vision coverage
• Employer paid short-term disability
• Employer paid long-term disability
• Employer paid life insurance
• 401(k)
• Profit sharing
• Paid time off
• Maven family & fertility benefit
• Parental leave (including adoption, surrogacy, and foster placement)
• Other voluntary benefits

About the Company

• William Blair strives to attract qualified candidates who specialize in investment banking, investment management, private wealth management, and other strategic resource groups.
• We are committed to empowering our colleagues to deliver client success and engage in our communities.
• Our firm has delivered trusted advice for nine decades, continuing to deepen our expertise and relationships across asset classes and markets throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.
• We provide advisory services, strategies, and solutions to meet clients’ evolving needs amid dynamic market conditions and varying industries.
• We are an independent partnership, with colleagues who have unique experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds.
• We empower our people to bring their best thinking so we can deliver the tailored, thoughtful work and problem-solving abilities that our clients expect.
• Learn more about us by visiting williamblair.com.

Equal Opportunity

• William Blair is an equal opportunity employer.
• It complies with all laws and regulations that prohibit discrimination in employment practice because of race, color, religion, creed, ancestry, marital status, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, unfavorable discharge from the military service or on the basis of a physical or mental disability that is unrelated to the employee's ability to perform the duties of the job applied for.
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