Job Description

Join us as a Vice President, Corporate Development

Joining our Corporate Development team as a Vice President, you'll advise on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) opportunities for the bank, providing in-house transaction advisory and execution services Undertake a lead role on M&A, investment and partnership transactions and complete analytical assessments of opportunities, with business transformation as a key deliverable Evaluate the overall value of a transaction to the bank, supporting the accountable senior transaction lead and head of team This is an office-first job, so most of your time will be spent on site in our London office

What you'll do

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As a Vice President, you'll take responsibility for ensuring that detailed financial and strategic analysis and due diligence is completed to a high standard and provide appropriate challenge to support and protect the bank's interests in a transaction. You'll also provide insights to negotiate transactions on behalf of the bank, using sound judgement and reasoning to deliver optimal outcomes.


In addition, you'll be:

Providing support on a wide range of transaction assessments spanning both larger, more complex transactions and smaller deals Collaborating across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups and building effective working relationships across the bank and its external advisor network Creating, analysing and evaluating internal papers to see that appropriate financial rigour and reasoning have been applied in the submission, and the business case is aligned with the bank's strategic priorities Using your technical and business knowledge to highlight areas where further analysis or detail is required, or points require further emphasis Presenting the analytical outputs, options and conclusions to senior colleagues Leading, monitoring and acting accordingly to make sure that the plan for the transaction and all risks, issues and dependencies are addressed Utilising market and competitor awareness to identify additional options and opportunities for the bank

The skills you'll need

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You'll bring extensive experience from one or more of the following: investment banking (such as M&A advisory or Financial Institution Group teams), a bank's inhouse corporate development team, corporate finance advisory teams or transaction services teams. It's also strongly preferred that you'll be either a qualified chartered accountant or a Level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst.


You'll also demonstrate:

Exceptional analytical and financial modelling capabilities, including detailed knowledge of financial accounting principles and valuation methodologies Strategic insight and commercial awareness Knowledge of regulatory capital and accounting standards * An understanding of corporate law and how it affects M&A