Analyst - Equity Advisory Team - London

Analyst - Equity Advisory Team – London

Lazard is one of the world’s preeminent financial advisory and asset management firms. While global in presence and reach, our organization is a close, collaborative community of over 3,000 professionals. Lazard is a place of continuous knowledge sharing, skill development, and relationship building, allowing professionals to grow and succeed together. Our entrepreneurial culture and flat structure embrace individual differences, allowing creative ideas and unique perspectives to drive our business forward and careers to take flight.

Through our financial advisory business, Lazard advises clients globally on strategic and financial matters, including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, capital structure, and capital raising. Our client relationships are built on trust and discretion. As the world’s largest advisory-focused firm, we offer exceptional depth of expertise across industry sectors and geographies, valuing the richness that comes from blending local perspectives with our global network.

Lazard is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and outgoing Analyst to join the Equity Advisory Team in London. This position will play a central role in transactions and client interactions, while contributing to the team’s collegiate culture, reporting into senior bankers.

As the leading independent IPO advisory team in EMEA, Lazard has advised on landmark deals over the last decade and has a strong pipeline for the upcoming years. The team is also involved in capital raisings, secondary selldowns, and supporting the broader capital solutions and M&A teams on a range of transactions.

Key Responsibilities

We trust you to:

• Demonstrate strong technical and analytical skills.
• Research, analyze, and evaluate qualitative and quantitative data, including financial and statistical analysis/modelling.
• Conduct company and industry analysis on new transaction opportunities.
• Assist with the efficient execution of transactions.
• Assist in the preparation and production of presentations and marketing materials for clients and prospective clients, in consultation with senior team members.
• Identify issues arising in transactions and assist in conducting due diligence.
• Develop sound and logical commercial views, focusing on both the big picture and minutiae.
• Effectively manage your own work, taking responsibility for accuracy, quality, consistency, and grammar.
• Assist senior bankers ad hoc with various reports and analyses.
• Contribute to firm-wide initiatives including recruiting, training, professional development, and other activities.

Qualifications and Requirements

You will need to have:

• Previous employment as a financial analyst at a reputable financial services firm, such as an investment bank, or another similar financial services provider.
• Genuine interest in Equity Capital Markets.
• Excellent computer skills, including Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Demonstrable execution support abilities and experience.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to support extensive analysis.
• Strong written and communication skills.
• Self-motivation and resilience, with a demonstrated ability to manage conflicting priorities and requests.
• The ability to take initiative and function independently, balanced with strong teamwork skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with the ability to maintain relationships with colleagues and clients at all levels.
• Awareness of the regulatory environment in which we operate.
• High standards of professional and ethical conduct, adhering to the legal and regulatory requirements of the banking environment.
• A minimum 2.1 university degree classification (or equivalent if studied outside the UK) is required.

Benefits and Culture

We strive to enhance the total health and well-being of our employees. Our goal is to support and enable our people to balance their commitments to career, family, and community. We believe in an employee experience that is highly individualized. We listen to what our people need and want, creating programs and initiatives designed to inform, include, and connect. When you work for Lazard, you are working for an organization that will continue to invest in your career and development.

Lazard is an intellectual capital business committed to delivering the best advice and solutions to clients. To achieve these objectives, we focus on attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent. We believe that a workforce comprised of people who represent a wide array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives creates a rich variety of thought that empowers us to challenge conventional wisdom, solve problems creatively, and make better decisions. Lazard was built on the premise that a multicultural firm can best serve a global clientele. As a global firm that has grown organically from local roots in different countries, we have a deep tradition of respecting and appreciating individual differences. Doing so has been core to our success for over 175 years.

Apply now. We will get in touch regarding the next steps.