Investment Banking - EMEA Infrastructure Strategic Investors Group (SIG) – Analyst / Associate – London

Role and Team

Analyst / Associate in the EMEA Infrastructure Strategic Investors Group (SIG) investment banking team in London. You will work with market-leading professionals at the heart of a leading global investment bank.

About the Team and Focus

The Infrastructure SIG investment banking team focuses on the investment banking coverage of Infrastructure Funds and the infra pockets of Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds. Clients are sophisticated investors, and the breadth of products and services we provide is extensive—spanning industries, geographies, and products (M&A, Leveraged Finance / DCM, ECM, structured products / derivatives). We offer debt, equity, and M&A advisory services to clients for acquiring businesses (majority and minority stakes), refinancing / recapitalizing investments, or monetizing mature investments via sale or IPO.

Areas of Focus

• Sectors:
  • Digital infrastructure (data centers, communication towers, fibre and optical cable networks)
  • Transportation infrastructure (air ports, sea ports and container terminals, toll roads, EV charging, rail and mass transit, parking)
  • Energy, power, utility and mining infrastructure (conventional, renewable and distributed generation, storage, transmission and distribution networks, water and waste)
  • Mission-critical services and social infrastructure
• Clients:
  • Financial institutions including infrastructure investors, private equity firms, diversified alternative asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices and insurance capital providers

Job Responsibilities

• Develop content for strategic meetings with clients regarding M&A, ECM and DCM/debt transactions
• Coordinate with industry, product, and country teams to ensure correct prioritization, positioning, and delivery of relevant content to clients
• Interact with senior team members and client management teams daily to execute transactions and discuss strategic alternatives
• Define, guide, and review detailed valuation analyses, including DCF, trading comparables, transaction comparables, LBO and DDM analyses
• Work closely with clients to develop comprehensive transaction materials, including business plans, performance analyses, due diligence reports and marketing materials

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Previous working experience:
  • In an investment banking front office role
  • In a relevant role at a top-tier buy-side institution or consulting firm
• Strong corporate finance proficiency and financial modelling skills
• Ownership and initiative: ability to take ownership across a project/transaction, with exposure to industry, country, and product teams
• Multi-tasking: ability to show initiative and support across several transactions in parallel, managing time appropriately across competing demands
• Impeccable communication with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients and stakeholders in other lines of business
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently
• Entrepreneurial spirit: strong commercial mindset, creativity, and proactive business development and origination
• Ability to manage work across several transactions in parallel, across competing demands
• Desire and/or experience in working in infrastructure-related sectors

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Bachelor's degree
• European language (in addition to English) is desired but not mandatory

Regulatory Note

This role encompasses the performance of regulated activity. The successful candidate will be subject to regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence, and (where appropriate) approval by the relevant regulatory authorities to carry out such activities.

About JP Morgan

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business, in a first-class way, drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help clients achieve their objectives.

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