Job Title:  Investment Banker, DACH Coverage, Associate

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

Job Title: Investment Banker, DACH Coverage, Associate
Corporate Level: Associate
Department: Investment Banking 
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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 sector specialists, with a focus on domestic, regional, and cross-border collaboration in M&A, acquisition finance, equity advisory, DCM, and solutions businesses. Our global sector teams include Greentech, Industrials & Infrastructure, Consumer & Retail, FIG, Healthcare, Technology, Media & Services, and Financial Sponsors.

The DACH coverage team focuses on delivering the full suite of Nomura’s investment banking products and services to the DACH region. This includes maintaining and building relationships and working with key corporates, financial institutions, financials sponsors, and governments in the region as well as facilitating relevant investment needs of Nomura’s clients globally.

The team has a longstanding track-record of successfully executed M&A transactions both private and public and the DACH region continues to be a key focus geography for the firm. Recent mandates include:

• Advisor to Unsere Grüne Glasfaser (UGG), a 50/50 JV between Allianz Capital Partners and Telefónica, on its 100% acquisition of Infrafibre Germany

• Advisor to BlackRock on the acquisition of a 50.1% stake in Mainova WebHouse

• Physical Bookrunner on AutoScout24’s c. €4bn-eq. acquisition and refinancing

• Advisor to Kyon Energy on its sale to TotalEnergies

• Advisor to IFM Investors on the partial tender offer for 10% of Flughafen Wien AG

• Advisor to the DFL on their attempted sale of a minority stake in Bundesliga’s media rights

• Advisor to Grifols on the voluntary public takeover offer for Biotest

The focus of the team is to:

• Originate and execute transactions across a broad range of investment banking products (including M&A, acquisition financing, equity advisory, DCM, and solutions businesses) and sectors, with a particular focus on Greentech and the Energy Transition segment

• Advise and work with sector and product teams on all relevant regional aspects of transaction execution such as market dynamics, modelling and valuation, financial and strategic analysis, regulatory issues, acquisition financing, due diligence coordination, negotiation, deal structuring, etc.

• Build and maintain relationships with key regional clients and facilitate relationship building and cross border investment flows.

Role Description

• Work focused on execution and client coverage, including M&A process management, financial modelling, financial analysis, strategic analysis, due diligence coordination, and acquisition financing

• Coordinate and work with Nomura teams across all geographies, products, and sector teams

• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types, both regional and cross-border, including sell-side and buy-side M&A, capital raising, leveraged buyouts, and risk solutions

• Receive exposure to high profile corporate and private equity clients

• Take ownership as a project leader, engaging with clients on a working group and managerial level

Desired Profile, Qualifications and Knowledge Required

• A proven background in M&A with relevant previous experience within investment banking / advisory including experience in sell-side and buy-side M&A and debt / equity financings

• Ability to manage teams to support senior bankers and deliver on client needs

• Excellent financial modelling and analytical skills

• Ability to take ownership and drive processes forward

• Exceptional communications skills with the ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients

• Ability to work independently while collaborating in a team-oriented environment

• Fluency in German and English

Nomura competencies

Culture & Conduct

• Contributes to desired culture

• Aware of different values / styles

• Maintains own and holds others to high standards of behavior

• Seeks to develop

• Aware of impact of own strengths / weaknesses

• Learns from experience

 Client-Centricity & Business Acumen

• Demonstrates understanding of current market

• Anticipates client needs

• Pays attention to detail, synthesizes accurately

• Sees problems, recommends solutions

 Strategy & Innovation

• Articulates own contributions to divisional and firm-wide strategy

• Embraces and balances new / differing ways of thinking / working

• Makes decisions appropriate to their role, knows when and how to escalate

• Knows when / how to compromise

• Responds positively to changing needs and circumstances

• Is able to change direction quickly

 Leadership & Collaboration

• Proactively participates in own and others' performance year

• Assists in recruiting and on boarding new team members

• Gives credit to others for positive contributions

• Builds collaborative and productive working relationships

• Provides on-the-job training to colleagues

• Provides and listens to constructive, timely and specific feedback to resolve conflict

 Communication & Connectivity

• Adjusts communication style to suit topic / audience

• Balances listening / talking

• Communicates ideas and issues clearly and with consideration

• Questions to understand others’ views

• Is a proven and credible resource

• Builds internal network

• Willingly works with others to share information

 Execution & Delivery

• Maintains positive commitment to results

• Takes on challenging assignments

• Executes priority actions on-time

• Keeps stakeholders updated, manages expectations

• Persists when confronted with resistance

• Seeks, listens to and accepts feedback

Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities, and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation.

DISCLAIMER:  This Job Description is for reference only, and whilst this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, it is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job.  The management reserves the right to revise the job and may, at his or her discretion, assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time. 

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer