Job Title:  Investment Banking Associate

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Investment Banking         

Location: New York, NY

The base pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be $175K per year*

Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

Aon’s Benefit Index®: Nomura’s benefits rank #1 amongst our competitors.

Department overview:

Nomura's Investment Banking division provides an array of advisory and capital-raising solutions to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and public-sector organizations around the world. Our global teams act as geographic, product and industry specialists with a focus on domestic, regional, and cross-border collaboration in M&A, DCM, acquisition finance and solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include, Greentech Industrials and Infrastructure, Consumer & Retail, FIG, Healthcare, Media and Technology, and Financial Sponsors.

Nomura Greentech Overview 

Nomura Greentech is a fully integrated investment banking team within Nomura which provides M&A advisory and capital formation services for sustainable technology and infrastructure clients, globally. The team focuses exclusively on clients which are using technology to accelerate the transformation of core infrastructure systems – energy, transportation, food, water and waste – to be lower carbon, more efficient and digitally networked.

Nomura Greentech has a team of 120 dedicated professionals globally, working seamlessly on our clients' behalf with dedicated offices in New York, San Francisco, London, Zurich, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Sydney, and collaborating closely with our Nomura colleagues across the global Nomura network. Nomura Greentech is led by experienced senior bankers who are sector experts and understand our clients' industries and needs with greater depth and insight. We reach a vast global network of incumbents, growth companies and investors, and thereby provide clients with more ways to succeed through a deeper relationship network. We have a differentiated execution track record, which enables us to find creative structures and solutions to close transactions. We are trusted advisors to our clients, providing conflict-free advice and thoughtful, innovative solutions. We pride ourselves on our sector and technical expertise and are dedicated to changing the way the world does business.

Role description:

As an Associate, you will be working directly with Managing Directors, Executive Directors, Vice Presidents, and Analysts on servicing and executing client transactions. Within Nomura Greentech, Associates play a crucial role in deal execution, and this is a unique opportunity to gain accelerated responsibility and client exposure immediately. We are seeking high impact Investment Bankers to join Nomura Greentech and cover clients, develop our continuing thought leadership and execute transactions.

• Deal Execution: Work closely with clients and deal teams on live transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, capital raisings, financings, and derivative transactions
• Client Relationship Management: Produce and present ideas at client meetings as a member of a deal team alongside senior bankers; Nomura Greentech seniors bankers take an active approach to ensure associate-level involvement in client meetings and broader coverage
• Strategic Analysis: Through financial, structural, and business risk analysis, support transactions and client presentations
• New Business Development: Actively participate in covering clients, leveraging proprietary content and generating value-additive ideas
• Team Management and Development: Manage analysts to execute deliverables for clients and support the training and mentoring of junior professionals; associates play a key role in junior team development

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Outstanding academic qualifications; strong GPA
• Prior investment banking experience; bulge bracket or boutique program training a plus
• Passion for the business opportunities created by sustainable infrastructure, technology, and industrial disruption
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Series 79 and 63, or willingness to sit for the exams required

Nomura Leadership Behaviors 

Explore Insights & Vision 

• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future. 

Making Strategic Decisions 

• Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations. 

Inspire Entrepreneurship in People 

• Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity. 

Elevate Organizational Capability 

• Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.  

Inclusion  

• Foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect). 

*base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer