Bank of America Corporation

Analyst-Leveraged Acquisition Finance

Bank of America Corporation • $110K — $125K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in financial analysis and modeling within leveraged finance or similar environments.
  • Hands-on experience building and explaining financial models to executive leadership.
  • Proven ability to quantify downside risk using financial statements and due diligence findings.
  • Knowledge of leveraged finance concepts, including cash flow analysis and varied debt structures.
  • Proficiency in LBO modeling with an understanding of key drivers and sensitivities.
  • Capable of managing multiple live deals simultaneously with minimal oversight.

Responsibilities

  • Analyze client financial information to assess creditworthiness and risk mitigation.
  • Conduct monitoring activities of client financial performance and compliance checks.
  • Participate in client meetings to gain insights into business dynamics and performance forecasts.
  • Ensure client requests adhere to established policies and procedures through review.
  • Understand internal and regulatory use of credit data.
  • Support periodic portfolio reviews by supplying analytical input.
  • Oversee the underwriting process, including risk analysis, negotiations, and transaction closings.

Benefits

  • Access to paid time off and industry-leading benefits.
  • Resources and support to impact business sustainably and positively.
  • Eligibility for an annual discretionary performance-based incentive award.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

This job is responsible for supporting end-to-end credit underwriting and monitoring processes for new and existing clients. Key responsibilities include completing credit analysis, evaluating risks, and writing financial analysis using various tools and systems. Job expectations include analyzing financials, projections, industry data, covenant compliance, collateral, and policy requirements to ensure alignment with the bank's risk appetite.

Analyst role for the Leveraged Acquisition Finance team, which advises, underwrites, and executes both broadly syndicated event-driven leveraged finance transactions and investments for Bank of America's $25 billion private credit investment strategy.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyzes client financial information, identification/mitigation of potential risks, compliance with regulatory requirements and evaluation of collateral in determination of credit worthiness
  • Completes monitoring activities via analysis of clients' financial performance and collateral evaluation to ensure appropriate requirements are met
  • Listens in to client meetings to develop a deeper understanding of the client's business, management team, and past and future performance
  • Reviews completed client requests to ensure compliance with policy and procedures
  • Understands how credit data is used internally and provided to regulatory partners
  • Assists with periodic portfolio reviews
  • Responsibility for the underwriting, risk / reward analysis, negotiation, approval and closing of new transactions, while adhering to all relevant policies and procedures
  • Analyzes client's financial performance by comparing it to past performance, projections, and industry standards
  • Evaluates transaction and relationship risk-adjusted profitability to facilitate the allocation of capital
  • Builds granular multi-scenario LBO and DCF projection models based on historical performance, industry forecasts, and other due diligence findings
  • Conducts due diligence with Sponsor and Corporate clients
  • Creation of ad-hoc PowerPoint-based analyses in support of live deals and investments


Required Qualifications:
  • Experience in financial analysis and financial modeling within leveraged finance, capital markets, investment banking, private credit, private equity, or similar analytical environments
  • Hands-on experience building financial models, with the ability to explain key assumptions, outputs, and downside considerations to executive level leadership
  • Experience quantifying downside risk on a pro forma basis using financial statements, consulting reports, client projections, and transaction-level due diligence
  • Exposure to leveraged finance and private credit investing concepts, including cash flow analysis, leverage, and varied debt structures
  • Working knowledge of LBO modeling, including ability to do a bottoms-up build of a model, familiarity with structure, key drivers, and sensitivities
  • Able to efficiently work on multiple live deals simultaneously with minimal oversight


Desired Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field
  • Prior experience with leveraged loan, acquisition financing, or private credit transactions
  • Experience working on live deals in investment banking, private credit, or capital markets
  • Experience conducting complex investment return analyses
  • Ability to independently navigate credit agreements and other relevant debt documents
  • Proficiency in explaining complex deal and debt-related concepts clearly and concisely to stakeholders, and clients as necessary


Skills:

  • Analytical Thinking
  • Credit Documentation Requirements
  • Financial Analysis
  • Loan Structuring
  • Relationship Building
  • Active Listening
  • Attention to Detail
  • Collaboration
  • Underwriting
  • Written Communications
  • Business Process Analysis
  • Data and Trend Analysis
  • Issue Management
  • Recording/Organizing Information
  • Research


Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:
40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - ONE BRYANT PARK - BANK OF AMERICA TOWER (NY1100)

Pay and benefits information

Pay range

$110,000.00 - $125,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible

This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits

This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.

About Bank of America Corporation

Bank of America Merrill Lynch is the corporate and investment banking division of Bank of America. It provides services in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt capital markets, lending, trading, risk management, research, and liquidity and payments management. It was formed through the combination of the corporate and investment banking activities of Bank of America and Merrill Lynch following the acquisition of the latter by the former in January 2009. Bank of America completed the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co on 1 January 2009. Bank of America began rebranding all of its corporate and investment banking activities under the Bank of America Merrill Lynch name in September 2009. In April 2010, Bank of America Merrill Lynch appointed Christian Meissner as head of investment banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa. In April 2011, Bank of America Merrill Lynch integrated its corporate and investment banking operations into a single division. In October 2013, Bank of America Merrill Lynch was recognised as the Most Innovative Investment Bank of the Year in The Banker's Investment Banking Awards.

Bank of America Corporation Careers

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Learn more about Bank of America Corporation
Size
208,000 employees
Market Cap
$260.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$17.8 billion
Founded
1998
5 Year Trend
-1.4%
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