Corporate Finance Analyst

The Job  

  The Advisory team within Corporate Finance provides expert and in–depth advice on acquisitions, disposals, valuation and capital raising to corporate clients, private equity firms, management teams and entrepreneurs. You will work on a wide variety of jobs, many of which may be high profile or involve price sensitive information. You may end up specialising in a specific industry area such as retail, healthcare or financial services or in a product area, such as Public Company or Private Equity.Graduates joining advisory will have the opportunity to work in a variety of areas. Each project is unique but can be split into three general areas.If advising your client on the buy side you may find yourself profiling companies to assess potential targets, building a financial model to predict how the company would look when combined with your clients existing business or analysing the structure of the deal to work out the most effective ways of financing it. On the sell side, you could be analysing the company to assess potential price expectations, preparing a detailed outline of the business to send to prospective buyers or working with management to prepare a business plan.As a member of the Valuations team, your work will include analysing past transactions and comparable quoted companies to attach a value to a company’s shares or assessing the value of a brand through various analytical techniques.
 
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