Analyst, Acquisition & Leveraged Finance

Job Title: Analyst, Acquisition & Leveraged Finance

Job Code: 7851

Country: GB

City: London

Skill Category: Investment Banking

Company Overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates, and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit

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Job Title: Analyst, Acquisition & Leveraged Finance

Corporate Title: Analyst

Department: Investment Banking Division

Location: London

Department Overview:

Nomura's Investment Banking division provides an array of advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and public-sector organizations around the world. Our global teams act as geographic, product, and industry specialists, with a focus on domestic, regional, and cross-border collaboration in M&A, DCM, acquisition finance, and solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include Energy Infrastructure and Industrials, Consumer & Retail, FIG, Healthcare, Business Services, Media and Technology, and Financial Sponsors.

The group is a single platform providing debt financing for private equity clients across the sub-investment grade credit ratings spectrum. Our clients are typically financial sponsors who we support on both event-driven (e.g., leveraged buyout) and non-event-driven transactions (refinancings, amend and extend transactions), involving a variety of debt products such as leveraged loans (TLBs), 2nd lien loans, private credit (direct lending) transactions, and high-yield bonds.

Role Description:

Assist in all aspects of deal execution from marketing to closing:

• Development of client presentation, structuring, and execution activities.
• Cashflow & financial modelling.
• Benchmarking, comparables, and analysis of company financial information, including credit metric statistics needed.
• Detailed credit analysis including due diligence and the management of the internal credit approval process.
• Preparation and support around the syndication of executed transactions (e.g., information memorandum and bank presentation preparation and roadshow materials).

Skills, Experience, Qualifications, and Knowledge Required:

Essential

• Experience in Leveraged Finance.
• General understanding of debt/leverage finance products and the European leveraged finance capital markets.
• Ability to multi-task efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication skills - ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients.
• Teamwork - experience working in a project-based environment with tight deadlines and as part of a broader team.
• Ability to understand companies' business models and credit analysis in general.
• Strong analytical skills and numerical abilities, including familiarity with financial modelling.

Desired

• MBA or equivalent qualification.

Nomura Competencies

Culture & Conduct

• Contributes to desired culture.
• Aware of different values/styles.
• Maintains own and holds others to high standards of behavior.
• Seeks to develop.
• Aware of the impact of own strengths/weaknesses.
• Learns from experience.

Client-Centricity & Business Acumen

• Demonstrates understanding of current market.
• Anticipates client needs.
• Pays attention to detail, synthesizes accurately.
• Sees problems, recommends solutions.

Strategy & Innovation

• Articulates own contributions to divisional and firm-wide strategy.
• Embraces and balances new/differing ways of thinking/working.
• Makes decisions appropriate to their role, knows when and how to escalate.
• Knows when/how to compromise.
• Responds positively to changing needs and circumstances.
• Is able to change direction quickly.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Proactively participates in own and others' performance year.
• Assists in recruiting and onboarding new team members.
• Gives credit to others for positive contributions.
• Builds collaborative and productive working relationships.
• Provides on-the-job training to colleagues.
• Provides and listens to constructive, timely, and specific feedback to resolve conflict.

Communication & Connectivity

• Adjusts communication style to suit topic/audience.
• Balances listening/talking.
• Communicates ideas and issues clearly and with consideration.
• Questions to understand others' views.
• Is a proven and credible resource.
• Builds internal network.
• Willingly works with others to share information.

Execution & Delivery

• Maintains positive commitment to results.
• Takes on challenging assignments.
• Executes priority actions on-time.
• Keeps stakeholders updated, manages expectations.
• Persists when confronted with resistance.
• Seeks, listens to and accepts feedback.

Diversity Statement
Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities and is fundamentally opposed to any less favorable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, color, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender, or sexual orientation.

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