Experienced Associate - Investment Banking (Global Services, Chicago)

Job Description:

Guggenheim Securities

Position Summary

Guggenheim Securities ("GS") is seeking experienced Associates to join our Investment Banking Global Services team in Chicago. The Associate will join our highly collaborative team responsible for providing advisory services to private equity firms and corporate clients with a strong emphasis on sell-side advisory engagements. The team focuses on high growth segments of the market. Associates will have the opportunity work across our sell-side M&A team, including with colleagues in Atlanta, Boston, London, and New York.

Guggenheim offers an unparalleled opportunity to work as part of small transaction teams on major strategic assignments providing meaningful exposure to senior bankers and client representatives. Candidates should be top performers who are willing to work hard in an unstructured environment where initiative, creativity, maturity, and enthusiasm for learning are highly valued.

We aspire to continuously refresh and cultivate a culture of Innovation, Diversity, and Inclusion. In a client services business like ours, our team members are the product, the service and the offering. We will provide best-in-class Investment Banking training—formal and hands-on—as you continue to develop your professional toolkit: M&A process management, business acumen, financial analysis, data analysis, soft-selling and presentation skills, professional communication (verbal, written and virtual), negotiations, and more. We believe junior talent development is critical to our strategy and this role is seen as a career-track position.

Essential Job Functions

• Perform financial analyses to support advisory transactions and highlight key takeaways
• Carefully review and provide guidance to Analyst teammates
• Develop working knowledge of multiple client sectors, monitor key industry drivers and assemble insights to support and enhance advisory services and new business development initiatives
• Lead diligence, research, analysis and documentation of potential and live transactions
• Lead development of relevant marketing memoranda, diligence exhibits and transaction artifacts
• Anticipate potential deal challenges and elevate concerns through to team members in real time
• Drive creation of strategic frameworks, tools and intellectual property to aid business development activities of the firm
• Actively participate in client meetings and drafting sessions
• Identify improvements to processes and propose solutions to complete group tasks more efficiently
• Lean into client relationships through C-Suite level exposure
• Apply understanding of macro factors related to client sectors and investment banking
• Conduct “on the job” training, providing continuous, constructive feedback with goal of improving quality of analyst and intern work product
• Actively participate in recruiting and training activities
• Additional responsibilities as requested

Preferred Qualifications

• IB Analyst promotes to Associate or MBA hires with 1-2 years of relevant experience

• Commitment to meet the demands of high volume and high-end client services
• Capable of balancing and managing multiple priorities simultaneously
• Effective communicator – verbal, written and virtual
• Highly organized project manager capable of thriving in high velocity environments
• Agile leader that can exercise sound judgement under pressure
• Curious and resourceful businessperson with strong understanding of accounting and finance
• Mature teammate with the ability to develop relationships with senior-level colleagues and clients
• Player-Coach mentality with strong desire to mentor and train junior teammates
• Desire to join a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial platform
• Demonstrable proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• 4+ years of professional experience
• 1-3 years of prior investment banking or equivalent M&A experience
• Sell-side advisory experience a plus
• SIE Exam, Series 79 and Series 63 must be acquired within 150 days of employment

About Us:

Guggenheim Securities is the investment banking and capital markets business of Guggenheim Partners, a global investment and advisory firm. Guggenheim Securities offers services that fall into four broad categories: Advisory, Financing, Sales and Trading, and Research. Guggenheim Securities is headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Houston.

For more information, please visit GuggenheimSecurities.com, follow us on LinkedIn or contact us at [email protected] or 212.518.9200.

Guggenheim Securities, LLC (“GS”) does not accept unsolicited resumes or applications. GS considers any resume or application to be unsolicited if (a) received from an entity or individual without a current recruiting agreement with GS or (b) submitted to anyone at the firm other than through the process set forth in the recruiting agreement between GS and the submitting entity or individual, and GS will not pay a fee to any entity or individual for such submission.