Job description:

Job Title: Investment Banker, Greentech Industrials & Infrastructure - Infrastructure Focus

Corporate Title: Senior Analyst - Junior Associate

Department: Investment Banking

Location: London

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 www.nomura.com

Department overview:

Nomura's Investment Banking division provides 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.

Following the acquisition of Greentech Capital Advisors, a leader in low carbon infrastructure M&A, Nomura has further strengthened its capabilities in the sustainable finance space which was recently externally recognised when Nomura was selected as Investment Bank of the Year for Sustainable Corporate Finance in 2020 by “The Banker”.

The Greentech Industrials & Infrastructure (“GII”) team is the leading and largest sector team at Nomura with a strong deal track record and significant transaction pipeline. We work closely with other teams to deliver the full suite of Nomura's products and services to our clients who primarily include corporates, governments, infrastructure investors and financial sponsors.

Key objectives critical to success: Typical work includes a mix of execution and client coverage including:

• Financial analysis, valuation, due diligence coordination, process management and client deal team interaction


• Required to co-ordinate and work with all other product, geography and industry teams, including: M&A, Leverage Finance and Debt Capital Markets


• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types including: Sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A, equity raising and leveraged buyouts


• Broad engagement across teams / groups, for example: M&A, Leverage Financed, Financial Sponsors, DCM, Structured and Risk Solutions (e.g., IR or FX derivatives)


• Involvement in broad range of deals, for example: Sell-side, buy-side, financings, Take-privates, PE funds and SWFs

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Essential:

• A proven background in Corporate Finance from either an investment bank/ boutique advisory firm or the Corporate Finance, Modelling and Valuation, Transaction Services groups of a large accounting firm


• Previous experience in power and infrastructure


• Excellent financial modelling experience (e.g. operating models, merger models, LBOs, DDM) and ability to create complex infrastructure models from scratch


• Experience in buy-side and sell-side M&A


• 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 valuation and leverage analysis across various sub-verticals within power and infrastructure


• Team work: Experience of working in a project based environment with tight deadlines


• Strong academic record

Desirable:

• Fluency in a European language

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.


• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.


• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.


• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.


• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).