Business Overview:
The BNP Paribas Investment Banking Group (“IBG”) delivers strategic advisory services for clients across the Consumer & Retail sector. Services include assisting clients in raising funds in capital markets, strategic advisory services for mergers, acquisitions and other types of financial transactions.
IBG North America is a rapidly growing segment of BNP Paribas’s Investment Banking franchise with the ambition to continue its growth across a wide range of sectors including Consumer & Retail.
Candidate Success Factors:
Candidates to be measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Impacts division and influences peers and team
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact
- Relies on limited guidance for most complex decision making
- Is responsible for driving outcomes which have meaningful effect on team or department
- Leadership and Collaboration
- Creates trust with department leaders
- Acts in leadership capacity for large projects, processes, or programs for a team
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus
- Able to build relationships with a mix of intermediate and senior colleagues or clients
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders
- Demonstrates the ability to persuade and influence stakeholders at team level
- Compliance Culture and Conduct
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards
Responsibilities:
• Overview: Significant levels of responsibility for various phases of origination and execution of transactions, including new business development
• Work closely with client teams and senior stakeholders on M&A and capital raise transactions, including due diligence, drafting sessions and preparing models and presentation materials
• Responsible for drafting analyses, pitch materials, information memoranda, investor and management presentations alongside a team of analysts and associates
• Relationship Building: Establish effective working relationships and build credibility with internal and external constituents
Minimum Required Qualifications:
• Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or related field
• 5+ years of experience working in financial services industry, specifically investment banking
• Knowledge of the Consumer & Retail sector
Preferred Qualifications:
• Demonstrated record of academic excellence
• Strong data management and research skills
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills
• Strong financial modelling capabilities and in-depth knowledge of corporate finance theory
• Team player, self-motivated and entrepreneurial, with the ability and willingness to guide, train, and develop more junior team members
• Detail oriented and reliable with a complete focus on quality results / deliverables
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written
• Technical proficiency in MS Office, including Word, Excel, and Power Point
FINRA Registrations Required:
CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):
SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:
The expected starting salary range for this position in New York is $250,000 annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.
About BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.
The bank employs nearly 6,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC.
As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose - to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.
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