Guggenheim Partners

Investment Banking Associate - Capital Structure Advisory

Guggenheim Partners$175K — $200K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required
  • 3+ years in investment banking or corporate finance
  • Core modeling and valuation experience
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience in a restructuring or senior finance role preferred
  • SIE, Series 79, and Series 63 licenses needed within 150 days of employment
  • Excellent attention to detail and analytical skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead project management and execution of advisory and financing transactions
  • Perform due diligence including financial and operational inquiries
  • Analyze market trends and company-specific metrics for client solutions
  • Prepare financial projections and client presentations
  • Integrate analyses into strategic stakeholder presentations
  • Contribute to deal pitches and generate restructuring opportunities
  • Build client relationships through continuous engagement
  • Manage and develop junior team members

Benefits

  • Engaging work environment with small client teams
  • Meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives
  • Opportunity to develop diverse financial and analytical skills
  • Chance to work on complex liability management assignments
  • Support for professional licensing and development
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Position Summary

The Capital Structure Advisory Group offers an unparalleled opportunity to work as part of small client teams on major liability management, restructuring, and financing assignments. Associates will work on a range of assignments including both Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings and out-of-court transactions. Our Associates play an integral role throughout the life of a transaction and have meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives. Given this highly visible role and the complex nature of financial restructuring assignments, Associates will have the opportunity to develop a diverse set of financial, analytical and communication skills.

Candidates should be top performers who are willing to work hard in an unstructured environment where initiative, creativity, maturity and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued. We are seeking bright, highly motivated individuals with solid corporate finance knowledge coupled with strong excel and modeling skills.

Essential Job Functions
  • Lead day-to-day project management and execution on a broad range of advisory and financing transactions, including developing and overseeing detailed financial and accounting analyses
  • Perform due diligence of companies, including generating and managing financial and operational diligence requests, conducting tours of company premises and operations, and discussing diligence questions with management and employees
  • Analyze market trends, competitive landscapes, and company-specific information (including liquidity, financial metrics, capital structure and credit documents) in order to identify potential client solutions
  • Analyze current and past accounting and financial records in order to advise clients through financial projections preparation; prepare, review and participate in client presentations
  • Integrate strategic ideas derived from various analyses, forecasts, business plans, and research into presentations for various stakeholders
  • Help prepare and contribute to deal pitches including idea generation and identify, research, and analyze restructuring and financing opportunities
  • Build and develop relationships with clients through ongoing engagement and demonstration of financial and industry knowledge
  • Manage and develop junior staff


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience at a restructuring group, workout group or leverage finance group is highly desirable
  • Significant level of maturity and the ability to work as a team interfacing with top company executives and senior management
  • Highly organized, with the initiative and ability to work with limited supervision
  • Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Strong written and oral communication skills
  • Effective process management abilities


Basic Qualifications
  • Requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree
  • Core modeling and valuation experience in professional setting
  • 3+ years of experience in investment banking, accounting, consulting, private equity, hedge fund or corporate finance
  • SIE Exam, Series 79 and Series 63 must be acquired within 150 days of employment


Work Location
  • Currently, this role is expected to be in the New York office at least 4 days per week.


Salary
  • Annual base salary between $175,000 and $200,000.
  • The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.


About Guggenheim Partners

Guggenheim Partners is a global investment and advisory firm with more than $310 billion in assets under management. The firm provides expertise in investment management, investment banking, and insurance services to institutions, governments, and individuals. Guggenheim Partners is headquartered in New York City and has offices in more than 25 cities worldwide. The firm was founded in 1999 by a group of senior executives from Salomon Brothers.
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