A leading investment banking name is expanding their London based European Financial Sponsors M&A Group. This team has a superb track record of successfully providing strategic advice to private equity funds and other financial investors across Europe and is key to driving sponsor led cross-sector M&A activity and revenues. Key duties include: Developing investment scenarios and corresponding presentation/ prospectus material, coordinated marketing for public private securities offerings, valuation analysis, business plans, and financial projections Responsibility to oversee a broad range of quantitative analyses, including leverage buyout models, discounted cash flow, multiple valuation analysis, M&A accretion/dilution analysis and credit analysis for client and investor presentations Leveraging the Firm's capital markets, proprietary research and analytical capabilities to provide top notch investment, risk advisory, merger & acquisition and capital markets services Monitor relevant transactions, capital market trends, company financial statements, industry, regulatory, and economic information, and other important assessments in the financial sector. Work directly with senior bankers and sector in all facets of the business, including marketing, transaction evaluation and transaction processing Experience: You will be a Senior Associate or VP investment banker within a respected financial institution, you will have accrued excellent M&A experience and will want to leverage your skills in a commercial capacity working with an extensive list of financial sponsor clients to originate deal activity and drive revenue growth Able to apply the fundamentals of economic and financial analysis methods for business decisions, finance, accounting, business statistics, marketing, investment, financial forecasting and marketing at a high level Experience supervising Analyst and Associate level staff in research & analysis and ensuing transactions within the investment banking sector Demonstrated maturity, presence, attention to detail, initiative, problem solving soft skills