Associate, Investment Banking

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What You’ll Be Doing

CIBC Capital Markets provides corporate, government, and institutional clients with innovative solutions to help them raise capital, and grow and invest actively throughout North America, Latin America, and key financial centres around the world. Our mission is to bring Canadian Capital Markets products to Canada and the rest of the world, and also bring the world to Canada.

CIBC Capital Markets Investment Banking provides equity and debt underwriting as well as corporate finance advisory services to corporations. CIBC’s Investment Banking professionals are dedicated specifically to advising clients on mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, hostile takeovers, buyouts, takeover defense, and restructurings. There is an extensive amount of interaction with other groups within the firm in order to provide clients with customized financing and advisory solutions.

Associates on the Global Mining team will be expected to provide a broad range of analytical, research and presentation preparation support to all the professionals within their group. Typically, Associates are assigned to a variety of transactions and advisory projects such as: mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, equity and debt financings, strategic advisory/alternatives projects, and full capital structure solution projects. As part of the Global Mining deal team you will gain exposure to working with individuals from various groups across the firm globally. A team approach to executing coverage and financing assignments is designed to provide progressive, on-the-job training.

The role of an associate is demanding and you must be able to accept flexibility in required personal time commitments to complete work assignments.
- At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview._

Base Salary: $135,000

How You’ll Succeed- Industry Research - Conduct industry research and analysis to assist in the identification and/or analysis of investment banking business opportunities and assist in preparing written documents including business development proposals and company information documents for marketing purposes- Financial Modeling - Develop and audit sophisticated financial models and play a key role in the preparation of client proposals and “pitchbooks”- Analysis - Prepare industry and financial analysis to determine client recommendations and lead industry comparable value and transaction precedent analyses. Assist in company due diligence investigations- Relationship Building - Take advantage of in depth technical and industry knowledge, as well as the geopolitical environment to generate ideas/opportunities that can be discussed with the relevant relationship manager and/or deal/coverage team. Coordinate client-focused and/or deal-focused “brainstorming” sessions with relevant team members and product specialists and liaise with other units of CIBC Capital Markets in preparing proposals for clients. Develop relationships and actively communicate with various appropriate contacts at the client. Develop and maintain an internal network with product groups, other business groups, etc. as well as maintain an external network with the market (i.e., key stakeholders, prospects, etc.) and support CIBC’s image through involvement in community activities. This role will require you to actively manage and mentor the Analysts that work with you and provide regular feedback to them.- Client Engagement - Play a lead role in the execution of client transactions including acting as the central point of contact for the deal team and/or product execution as appropriate through the completion of a transaction. Lead and oversee financial modeling and analyses and provide corresponding recommendations to internal and client stakeholders. Conduct deal related due diligence activities and present findings internally and participate in developing investor presentation materials and in “road show” marketing activities. Work with outside working group members including legal advisors, accounting advisors, auditors, etc. You will be responsible for the overall information and communication flow on deal teams.

Who You Are- You have attained a Bachelor’s Degree within business, finance, or engineering. Completion of a professional designation (e.g. CFA) or MBA is an asset- You’re motivated by collective success. Well-developed interpersonal and relationship