Job Title:  Analyst, Investment Banking, Nordic Coverage

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. Nomura has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and its European headquarters in London, United Kingdom. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Job title:                       Analyst, Investment Banking, Nordic Coverage

CorporateTitle:            Analyst

Department:                Investment Banking Division

Location:                     London, UK

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 Nordic coverage team focuses on delivering the full suite of Nomura’s Investment Banking products and services to clients in the Nordic 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.

With a broad offering of advisory services, the Nordics team typically spend the majority of its time on sell-side or buy-side M&A transactions as well as covering leverage finance, debt advisory and other products (e.g. hedging, equity-related structuring). Recent deals in the Nordic region includes advising Carlsberg on its acquisition of Britvic, advising Agilitas on its sale of Reconor to Basalt and advising Svevind on the sale of its Swedish onshore wind development business to Statkraft and the sale of grid distribution system operator Markbygden Net to Ellevio.

The focus of the team is to:

• Originate and execute transactions across a broad range of Investment Banking Division products (including M&A, acquisition financing, equity advisory DCM and solutions businesses) and sectors in the Nordic;
• 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, deal 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

• Typical work includes a mix of execution and client coverage including: financial analysis, financial due diligence, process management and client deal team interaction
• Required to co-ordinate and work with all other product, geography and industry teams, including: M&A, Leverage Finance and Debt Capital Markets
• Opportunity to work on a range of transaction types including: sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A, equity raising and leveraged buyouts
• Broad engagement across teams / groups, for example:  M&A, Leveraged Finance, Financial Sponsors, DCM, Structured and Risk Solutions (e.g., IR or FX derivatives)

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Keen interest in business and corporate finance
• Strong financial modelling experience (e.g. operating models, merger models, LBO)
• Excellent communications skills: ability to interact confidently with banking professionals and clients
• Outstanding analytical skills, including ability to perform data analysis
• Team work: experience of working in a project based environment with tight deadlines
• Strong academic record
• Fluent in at least one Nordic language
• Experience in sell-side M&A, buy-side M&A, consulting or corporate finance viewed as a plus

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. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Right to Work

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Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer