Associate, Leveraged Finance, Corporate Banking

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What You’ll Be Doing

The US Leveraged Finance team in the US works with financial sponsors and corporate clients of CIBC to provide leveraged finance solutions and lending capabilities.  Our team works closely and has significant interaction with CIBC’s other US businesses, including Debt Capital Markets, Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, and Bank USA.  US Leveraged Finance is part of CIBC Capital Markets.

A strong Associate level candidate is needed to support the US Leveraged Finance team.  The team is responsible for the structuring and execution of leveraged finance products. The Associate will be responsible for providing corporate credit analysis and transactional support for the team, and will gain significant experience working on a wide range of “clubbed” and underwritten leveraged finance transactions, including leveraged buyouts, M&A financings and dividend recapitalizations.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on-site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

How You’ll Succeed

• Build detailed financial and cash flow models (“LBO models”), including developing detailed and justifiable assumptions and downside cases

• Work with senior members of the US Leveraged Finance team and other business areas to conduct detailed due diligence, including working in data rooms

• Assist in the evaluation and structuring of financing proposals

• Assist in the drafting and preparation of cohesive and cogent pre-screen memos and credit approval packages, including developing well thought out credit strengths and risk with appropriate mitigants

• Assist in the preparation and drafting of marketing materials and client presentations and assist in the presentation of proposed transactions to management and credit

• Interact, ask questions and generally be pro-active with team members and other CIBC groups in order to continuously grow your knowledge base and competencies

• Collect, assembly and analyze market data and transactions and maintain lender base of deals and lender relationships

• Assist in closing transactions and be responsible for the on-going monitoring of booked assets

Who You Are

Extremely detail oriented, hard worker, seek excellence, can handle multiple things at once, energetic, pro-active and take initiative, write well, ensure accurate calculations in financial models/charts, ask questions, continuously learn from mistakes and don’t make the same mistake twice, put thought into everything you do, aren’t  afraid to speak up, review your work before passing it on, format well,, ask yourself “does this make sense?”, value accuracy over speed, strive for success