Investment Banker, Technology, Media & Services, Associate

Job Title: Investment Banker, Technology, Media & Services, Associate

Job Code: 7487

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

Corporate Title: Associate
Department: Investment Banking
Location: London, UK

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, acquisition finance, DCM and risk solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include Technology, Media, & Services, Financial Sponsors, Energy Infrastructure and Industrials, Consumer & Retail, FIG and Healthcare. The Technology, Media & Services ("TMS") group exists to capitalise on key Tech mega-trends - digitisation, outsourcing, regulatory-driven transformation - supporting the rapid shift towards technology-enabled and service-led businesses across industries and markets. Nomura's TMS group is focused on three key macro-verticals: (i) Software & IT Services, (ii) Fintech and (iii) Media, Entertainment & Education.

Role Description:

• Typical work includes (i) taking a lead role in execution, including leading and overseeing financial analysis, modelling and valuation, financial due diligence, process management and client deal team interaction as well as (ii) client and sector coverage, including providing deep sector insights to clients.
• Required to co-ordinate and work with all other product, geography and industry teams, including: M&A, Leverage Finance and Equity Advisory.
• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types, including sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A, leveraged buyouts, equity advisory mandates, for a broad range of public or private clients.
• Broad engagement across teams/groups, for example: M&A, Leverage Finance, Financial Sponsors, Equity Advisory, Structured and Risk solutions.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• A proven background and successful experience in Corporate Finance from either a bank/ boutique advisory firm or comparable roles in the Corporate Finance, Modelling & Valuation, Transaction Services groups of a leading accounting firm.
• Previous experience and genuine interest in the Tech sector considered a plus.
• Excellent financial modelling experience (e.g. operating models, LBO).
• Experience in buy-side and sell-side M&A execution.
• Project management: ability to manage teams to deliver to client needs.
• Strong communications skills: ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients.
• Outstanding analytical skills, including ability to perform data analysis.
• Teamwork: experience of working in a project-based environment with tight deadlines.
• Strong academic record.

Desirable:

• Fluency in a European language.

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 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 favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Right to Work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA.

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