About the position

This role is for an Associate, Banker CSG with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New York. The position involves structuring, analyzing, and executing transactions for a private placement syndicate desk. Key responsibilities include overseeing live deal execution, managing due diligence, negotiating legal and financial documents, organizing roadshows, and coordinating with other investment banks. The role also requires assisting senior team members with financial models, drafting offering documents, and preparing client materials. A significant part of the job involves conducting in-depth analysis of client financing needs and capital structures, reviewing financial modeling work and presentations, and identifying structural elements of bonds. Building client relationships and leading discussions on debt capital markets topics are also crucial. The Associate will liaise with senior bankers and product experts across the firm.

Responsibilities

• Structure, analyze, and execute transactions on behalf of private placement syndicate desk.
• Oversee financing live deal execution, including running due diligence processes.
• Negotiate non-disclosure agreements and financial aspects of legal documents with lawyers and financiers.
• Organize deal and non-deal roadshows.
• Liaise with other investment banks and related parties.
• Assist senior team evaluate models to develop key judgments.
• Draft financing and offering documents.
• Assist companies in preparing materials to present to potential buyers of the company or their securities.
• Conduct careful and detailed analysis of a client’s financing needs and capital structure within the framework of its short, medium, and longer-term business strategies.
• Coordinate deal teams work product, including reviewing financial modeling work and presentations prepared for transactions, board meetings, investment banking pitches, and client service projects on financing topics and asset sales.
• Review memoranda required to gain internal approvals from investment banking committees.
• Identify structural elements of bonds and advise on choices involved in the structuring of a bond issue.
• Review proprietary financial models, and prepare Discounted Cash Flow, Leveraged Buyout, Comparable Companies, and Precedent Transactions analysis.
• Build long-term client relationships and develop senior-level dialogue around debt capital markets topics including refinancing, rating advisory, and strategic alternatives.
• Lead dialogue when liaising with senior bankers and product experts throughout the firm.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Accounting, or related field.
• Two (2) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
• Two (2) years of experience with working with financial transaction structures, including identification of party roles, required deliverables, execution timelines, and scope parameters for private placement clients.
• Two (2) years of experience reviewing and performing quantitative analysis based on legal documents, including credit agreements, debt indentures, commitment papers, fee letters, and purchase and sale agreements.
• Two (2) years of experience with structured finance products, including Project Finance bonds, corporate bonds, structured bonds, Term Loans, and Asset-Backed Securities.
• Two (2) years of experience analyzing financial statements, financial projections, and models as prepared in various formats by clients.