Associate

About the Role

Join the Investment Banking Division as an Associate in the Corporate Advisory team. You will be a key player in executing the firm's business, working with expert professionals at a leading global investment bank. The role offers training, hands-on learning opportunities, continuous mentoring, feedback, and development opportunities. You will use your experience to contribute to the firm's M&A execution and capital raising capabilities, helping to build J.P. Morgan's franchise and reputation. You will develop strong functional skills in major areas of investment banking and aim to become a senior client executive capable of generating and executing your own transactions.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with J.P. Morgan product and coverage teams.
• Build and use complex financial models, complete analytical exercises, and work with large data sets.
• Support senior bankers in developing structured solutions for complex transactions.
• Develop subject matter expertise in corporate finance and structuring areas, including capital structure, capital allocation, and separations/spin-offs.
• Draft management presentations, Board materials, and other materials for M&A and capital markets transactions or strategic client dialogue.
• Stay abreast of key market developments and establish knowledge of the target client base and relevant market dynamics.
• Create thematic client content on key issues and market developments (corporate-finance related, sustainability, geopolitics, policy/regulation) to inform strategic alternatives.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2+ years of work experience in an investment banking front office, or related, role.
• Strong accounting, finance, quantitative, corporate finance, and business writing skills.
• Impeccable communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with senior professionals, clients, and key stakeholders in other lines of business.
• Self-directed, highly motivated, and able to work independently.
• Problem solver with the desire to create new solutions and products.
• Understanding of the transaction cycle and the steps in the process; execution oriented.
• Knowledge of how sustainability, geopolitics, and policy/regulation can impact capital markets considerations (value creation and risk mitigation) is a plus.
• Fluency in Spanish or Portuguese is a plus.