Overview: My Client is looking to hire a Senior Associate for it's Debt Advisory Team in London. The team provides unbiased, independent advice to its clients on capital structure solutions. Responsibilities: • Sourcing and executing financing deals. • Advising clients on the arranging debt for event driven situations, acquisitions and re-financings. • Participating in complex negotiations on behalf of its clients. As well as being a well-established team with a consistently excellent track record, the Debt Advisory Team offers great opportunities for upwards progression. • Support origination & execution of transactions in the debt advisory team. • Build complex financial models from scratch. • Undertake analysis of company operational and financial performance, capital structure, legal documentation and valuation. • Lead in the drafting & preparation of deal materials. • Lead in the drafting of marketing materials including pitch books and company research. • Manage team analysts supporting you to carry out the above responsibilities and act as a quality control on their work. • Play an integral role within the team supporting senior members in client and lender engagement and in supervising and training junior members of the team. • Working alongside colleagues from M&A advisory teams Requirements: • Experience at a leading investment bank or other advisory firm commensurate with working at the Associate level. • Essential that the applicant is able to build complex models from scratch to model financing scenarios and company valuations (incl. LBO, DCF). • Candidates with significant leveraged finance or debt advisory experience are preferred. • Has ability to synthesise and interpret data, and present it in a clear, concise and logical way. • Experience in supervising and teaching junior members of teams. • Highly analytical, motivated with leadership potential. • A hard-working, pro-active, can-do attitude and a willingness to work on a number of transactions at the same time. • Excellent communication, problem solving & presentation skills. • Exemplary academic results. • Good Excel, PowerPoint & Word skills.