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Company: Stifel
Location: New York, NY
Career Level: Executive
Industries: Banking, Insurance, Financial Services

Description

The Investment Banking Vice President focuses on providing strategic financial advice to companies, creditors, shareholders or third parties involved in complex and transformational corporate financial situations, including recapitalizations, restructurings, other modifications to debt or liabilities, distressed acquisitions, sales and divestitures, and debt and equity financings.  The job responsibilities include executing mandates involving debtors or creditors in recapitalization transactions, creating in-depth quantitative financial models and analyses, sourcing new debt or equity capital and developing financial and strategic presentations for clients.

 



What We're Looking For

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Manage all aspects of transaction execution.
  • Manage client relationships and be viewed as a trusted client advisor.
  • Begin basic client calling efforts.
  • Target areas for junior staff development.
  • Start to develop focused knowledge within a small number of sectors.
  • Develop recruiting relationships (at other financial services firms, for example).
  • Teamwork and community service (recruiting, reviews, mentoring, firm committees).
  • New Business: Demonstrated record of identifying, sourcing, creating and executing new business opportunities (all products including private equity); able to differentiate TWP from competitors; exercise good judgement in assessing risks and rewards of new business opportunities.
  • Performs other related duties as assigned.


What You'll Bring

  • Client Skills: Able to win the confidence of clients; sensitive to clients' needs in both anticipating and delivering upon requests; able to build strong, long-term business relationships.
  • Time Management: Able to organize and prioritize multiple tasks and responsibilities; able to follow through and meet deadlines; able to manage expectations appropriately; able to use firm's resources efficiently.
  • Teamwork: Works well within assigned project teams; accessible to and respectful of all team members, regardless of relative seniority; willing to train and mentor others; strives to be a value-added resource to other groups throughout the firm.
  • Work Ethic and Attitude: Dedicated to accomplishing goals; willing to take on additional responsibilities to produce outstanding work; strives for excellence; maintains a positive attitude through stressful situations.
  • Personal Characteristics: Demonstrates professionalism, integrity, maturity, intellectual curiosity, initiative and good judgement; takes pride of ownership for wins and accountability for losses/mistakes; knows when to ask for help.
  • Product knowledge
  • For Corporate Finance: Strong transactional skill, with demonstrated ability to pitch and execute the firm's array of products (private equity, private placements, public equity, convertibles and M&A); knows the markets for each product; comfortable analyzing and advising upon the appropriateness of financial alternatives.
  • For Product Groups: Strong execution and origination skills in area product specialization; strong working knowledge of relevant accounting and legal procedures and rulings within area of product specialization; current and value-added market knowledge of transactions completed within area of product expertise.
  • Effective communication skills and able to relay information well in both written and verbal form.
  • Able to manage priorities, deadlines and task in order to meet deadlines and accomplish goals.
  • Solid and reliable mathematical skills.
  • Solid analytical skills - uses logic and reasoning to identify complex problems; review related information and develop options and implement solutions.
  • Good interpersonal interaction and able to work well with others.


Education & Experience

  • Minimum Required: Bachelors' degree
  • Minimum Required: 3 to 5 years investment banking experience as a financial analyst and associate.


Licenses & Credentials

  • Minimum Required: NASD licenses


Systems & Technology

  • Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook


About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up.  We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas.  Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

 

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations.  Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more.  Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

 

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

 

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.


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