The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

Global Banking & Markets Private-M&A Capital Markets Associate-New York

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc$150K — $225K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of relevant experience in finance or capital markets
  • Strong communication skills for client and senior leader interactions
  • Ability to distill complex data into clear presentations and reports
  • Interest in equity markets and corporate finance
  • Project management skills to handle multiple deadlines
  • Knowledge of valuation methods like DCF and LBO
  • Quantitative proficiency, ideally with statistics or data science backgrounds

Responsibilities

  • Assist senior bankers in advising clients on merger matters
  • Negotiate structured deal solutions for M&A transactions
  • Analyze data to provide insights for marketing and advisory work
  • Present analyses of trading patterns surrounding corporate events
  • Synthesize investor sentiment from various market data sources
  • Evaluate impacts of novel transaction structures on financial markets
  • Provide real-time trading dynamic insights in contested M&A situations
  • Oversee and enhance proprietary datasets for the team

Benefits

  • Valuable competitive benefits and wellness offerings
  • Strong overall employee experience focus
  • Collaborative team environment
  • Exposure to senior bankers across the firm
  • Broad industry exposure and diverse client base
Full Job Description
Job Description

Business Unit Description / Overview:

The M&A Capital Markets ("MACM") team is an integral part of the M&A advisory business, responsible for providing differentiated advice on unique or complex merger matters. MACM provides capital markets insights and judgments on all aspects of strategic transactions, ranging from negotiating merger consideration to predicting and analyzing event-driven trading dynamics. The team has a broad mandate, pitching and executing mergers and separations across sectors, market caps and geographies.

Selected Key Practice Areas and Responsibilities:

  • Helping senior bankers across Investment Banking advise clients on a diverse set of merger-related matters
  • Architecting and negotiating structured deal solutions (such as M&A collars and cash/stock elections) on behalf of clients in live M&A transactions
  • Leveraging data to create differentiated insights into the merger and equity markets for use in marketing and advisory assignments
  • Performing and presenting analyses on trading patterns related to activism, mergers, and other corporate events, including M&A buyer reactions, merger arbitrage, index fund trading, and activist accumulation
  • Interpreting investor sentiment around transactions by synthesizing investor feedback, trading desk color, market data, sell-side research, and third-party commentary
  • Analyzing the financial and capital markets impacts of novel transaction structures
  • Providing real-time judgments and insight into trading dynamics in leaked, hostile, or contested M&A
  • Gauging the impact of acquisitions and separations on pre- and post-closing client valuations and equity stories
  • Overseeing, quality-controlling and enhancing the group's proprietary datasets


Skills and Experience We Are Looking For:

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with confidence to interact with clients and senior internal leaders
  • Ability to synthesize data into concise client-ready slides, memos, or talking points
  • Demonstrated interest in equity markets, investor behavior, corporate finance, and the broader macroeconomic environment
  • Effective project management skills with ability to prioritize competing projects and deadlines
  • Strong familiarity with company valuation concepts (comparable multiples, DCF, LBO, etc.) and merger math
  • Exceptional quantitative and technical skills, ideally with experience in statistics or data science


Additional Information:

  • Small, collaborative team with a strong culture and exposure to senior bankers on the team and across the firm
  • Associates work across industries and gain broad exposure to Goldman Sachs' client base
  • Core client audience consists of most senior management (C-Suite) and Board of Directors
  • Involvement in some of the most important and high-profile situations and transactions


Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, NY, United States-based position is $150000-$225000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.

Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.

About The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. provides investment banking, securities, and investment management services, as well as financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Its Investment Banking segment offers financial advisory services, including advisory assignments concerning mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, corporate defense, risk management, and restructurings and spin-offs; and underwriting services comprising public offerings and private placements of a range of securities, loans, and other financial instruments, and derivative transactions. The company’s Institutional Client Services segment provides client execution services, such as fixed income, currency, and commodities client execution related to making markets in interest rate products, credit products, mortgages, currencies, and commodities; and equities related to making markets in equity products, as well as executes and clears institutional client transactions on stock, options, and futures exchanges. This segment also engages in the securities services business providing financing, securities lending, and other brokerage services to institutional clients, including hedge funds, mutual funds, pension funds, and foundations. Its Investing and Lending segment originates longer-term loans; and invests in debt securities, loans, public and private equity securities, real estate, consolidated investment entities, distressed assets, currencies, commodities, and power generation facilities. The company’s investment management segment provides investment products and services, as well as offers wealth advisory services, including portfolio management and financial counseling, and brokerage and other transaction services.

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Learn more about The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc
Size
45,100 employees
Market Cap
$115.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$9.4 billion
Founded
1869
5 Year Trend
+11.3%
Revenue
$53.4 billion
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