Infrastructure Investment Banking, Associate, LDN, Global Advisory

About Us

Rothschild & Co is a leading global financial services group with seven generations of family control and a history of over 200 years at the centre of the world's financial markets.

Our expertise, intellectual capital and global network enable us to provide a distinct perspective that makes a meaningful difference to our clients, communities and planet.

We have 4,600 talented specialists on the ground in over 40 countries around the world, enabling us to deliver a unique global perspective across four market-leading business divisions – Global Advisory, Wealth Management, Asset Management and Five Arrows.

As a family-controlled business built on relationships, we place a huge emphasis on our people and finding the right colleagues to take our business forward.

Rothschild & Co is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment where different perspectives are valued. We are focused on the attraction and recruitment, development and retention and progression of high calibre talent to ensure we and our clients benefit from the value of difference.

Overview of Role

An informed and impartial perspective to help our clients reach their goals through the design and execution of strategic M&A and financing solutions in the infrastructure space.

We provide impartial, expert advice to large and mid-sized corporations, private equity, families and entrepreneurs, and governments. We design and execute strategic M&A and financing solutions for our clients and act as a trusted partner, taking a long-term and independent view on the challenges they face.

Our deep understanding of financial markets, the high volume of transactions we advise on, and our unrivalled network of industry and financing specialists in 40 countries, provide clients with a comprehensive perspective to achieve their strategic goals. Our distinct perspective allows us to achieve outstanding results for our clients and act as their most trusted advisers over the long term.

Responsibilities

• Work on multiple transactions and with multiple project teams simultaneously on all critical aspects of transactions, ranging from client development and initial opportunity evaluation to transaction strategy and execution, for both M&A (e.g. sell side, buy side) and financing advisory (e.g. acquisition financing, refinancing (rated and unrated), project finance advisory) mandates

• Lead teams in the preparation of financial analyses and models required for evaluating and completing such transactions, as well as client presentations, information memoranda (both equity and debt), ratings presentations and offering documents

• Experienced banker who seeks to identify new business opportunities for Rothschild & Co Global Advisory and new ideas for our clients that advance their strategic objectives

Education and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree

Experience, Skills and Competencies Required

• Minimum 4 to 5-year experience in the infrastructure or energy & power sector

• Prior experience from an M&A or debt advisory firm or from a financing role at a balance sheet bank but with exposure to M&A or debt advisory

• Proven quantitative and analytical skills to develop financial models, debt structures and valuations with a deep understanding of financial statement analysis

• Proven understanding of infrastructure-like financing products and capital structures

• Ability to provide direction and leadership in order to build a strong team environment and to build effective relationships between individuals, teams and lines of business, across different geographies

• Ability to build long-term, professional relationships that add value to the client and lead to the expansion of the business

• Experience leading client presentations, managing projects and the execution of transactions

• Ability to simultaneously manage mulitple projects in an extremely fast paced environment in order to meet critical deadlines

• Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Word, PowerPoint and Excel)

Certified role status: Yes

Our goal is to have a balanced, inclusive and flexible environment which enables all colleagues to achieve their personal and professional aspirations, and to ensure that Rothschild & Co provides longer term opportunities for talent