Experienced Associate Investment Banking, Healthcare

Job Description:

Position Summary

The Healthcare team at Guggenheim Securities (“GS”) is seeking an experienced Associate to join its team located in New York, with a focus on the Biopharma industry. Candidates will join a highly collaborative team responsible for providing M&A advisory and capital raising service and capabilities to corporate clients.

GS offers a unique opportunity to work as part of small client teams on major strategic assignments, providing meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives. Candidates should be top performers who are willing to work hard in an unstructured environment where initiative, creativity, maturity, and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued. Candidates must be focused on earning a promotion to Vice President upon completion of the Associate program and becoming a top performer with the intention of developing a long-term banking career.

Essential Job Functions

• Prepare and contribute to delivery of client presentations and interact with senior bankers, clients, lawyers, and accountants
• Develop and monitor the development of complex financial models and valuation analysis
• Perform client due diligence, prepare information memoranda and other transaction-related documentation
• Draft internal and client-facing documents, including management presentations, lender presentations, fairness opinions, and pitchbooks
• Build and develop relationships with clients through ongoing engagement and demonstration of financial and industry knowledge
• Generate potential ideas and new business opportunities for clients to help solve problems
• Contribute to the creation of strategic frameworks, tools, and intellectual property to aid business development activities of the firm
• Conduct competitive research including identifying sector and industry trends
• Gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, develop and communicate recommendations to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant level of maturity and the ability to work as a team interfacing with top company executives and senior management
• Solid interpersonal skills including the ability to communicate complex ideas effectively to senior management and/or senior clients
• A proven track record of high intellectual horsepower throughout academic and professional career
• Intellectually curious with a passion to seek a deeper understanding of how organizations in all sectors perform best

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years of investment banking experience or an MBA with a minimum of 1+ years of experience in IB
• Familiarity with M&A and Equity Capital Markets transactions
• Analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
• Mastery of basic valuation and financial statement analysis

Salary

• Annual base salary between $175,000 and $200,000.
• The base salary range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for this position. Actual base salaries may vary depending on factors such as location and experience. The range listed reflects base salary only, and the total compensation package may include other components such as incentive compensation.

About Us:

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, a global investment and advisory firm. Guggenheim Securities offers services that fall into four broad categories: Advisory, Financing, Sales and Trading, and Research. Guggenheim Securities is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Houston.

For more information, please visit GuggenheimSecurities.com, follow us on LinkedIn or contact us at [email protected] or 212.518.9200.

Guggenheim Securities, LLC (“GS”) does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications. GS considers any resume or application to be unsolicited if (a) received from an entity or individual without a current recruiting agreement with GS or (b) submitted to anyone at the firm other than through the process set forth in the recruiting agreement between GS and the submitting entity or individual, and GS will not pay a fee to any entity or individual for such submission.