CIB - Investment Banking - SSA Coverage - Analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Job Summary:

• Assist in origination and execution of public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures across all industries, equity capital markets advisory on various types of capital raising transactions such as listings, rights issues and other equity issuances across sub-Saharan Africa together with other bankers from the SSA team, as well as colleagues from industry and other product teams in other geographies.

Core Responsibilities:

• Preparing presentation materials and participating in deal pitches
• Building of complex valuation models and other analytical exercises
• Performing financial valuation, discounted cash flow and multiples-based analyses
• Conducting industry and product research

Day-to-day management of projects:

• Liaise with the relevant counterpart at the client and other advisers (accounting, legal etc.)
• Coordinate project deliverables and timetable with other advisers
• Liaise with other team members, industry coverage bankers and other product partners to deliver the firm to our clients

Required Experience:

• Prior experience in an Investment Bank either in M&A, an industry group or leveraged finance (essential)

Required Skills:

• Financial Performance / Technical Skills
• Outstanding financial analysis and modelling skills (essential)
• High level of attention to detail and time management
• In-depth understanding of investment banking products (can be enhanced and further built via training)

Control skills

• Excellent understanding of financial, legal and reputational risks facing large integrated investment banks today (essential)
• Familiarity with local regulatory requirements (can be provided through training)
• Partnership skills
• Strong team player (essential)
• Strong project management skills and ability to independently drive various work streams (can be enhanced through on-the-job training)

People skills

• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Experience in dealing with clients and other transactional advisers (can be enhanced through training)
• Strong management skills enabling candidate to effectively manage more junior bankers in high pressure environment
• Willingness to work hard to achieve results, ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment. Well rounded personality
• Desirable skills/experience (optional):
• Local and foreign language skills, while not required, are desirable
• IT skills (MS Office, in particular MS Powerpoint and MS Excel)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree is preferable

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world's most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.