Associate, Global Investment Banking

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What You’ll Be Doing

The Energy, Infrastructure & Transition (EIT) team is the largest investment banking team at CIBC and focuses on clients in the United States, Canada and Europe across broad sector coverage including traditional sectors of power generation, utilities, upstream and midstream energy, transportation, and social infrastructure, plus emerging energy transition sectors including renewable power, carbon capture, hydrogen, renewable fuels, among other emerging low-carbon solutions. CIBC was named North American Financial Advisor of the year in 2024 by Infrastructure Journal Global (IJGlobal).

This Associate role is based in Houston and primary focus is on the midstream and pipeline, LNG and carbon capture sectors, with increasing focus on other emerging energy transition sectors. The primary roles and responsibilities for this Associate position include working with Managing Directors, Executive Directors, Directors, Associates and Analysts to complete financial modeling and analysis, research, transaction structuring and to generally support the senior professionals with business development and transaction execution activities. The Associate will be trained to maintain an awareness of our clients and industry.

How You’ll Succeed

• Develop and audit sophisticated financial analyses and financial models

• Prepare industry and financial analysis to determine client opportunities and recommendations

• Lead industry valuation analysis including discounted cash flows, comparable company, and precedent transaction analyses

• Assist in developing proposals to clients and potential clients for equity and debt placements, mergers, asset or company divestitures or acquisitions, and other financial products and advisory services

• Organize presentations to potential clients, assisting in the development of presentation information

• Conduct industry research and analysis to assist in the identification and/or analysis of investment banking business opportunities

• Participate in cross functional teams and liaising with other units of CIBC Capital Markets in executing mandates or preparing proposals for clients

• Assist in company due diligence investigations

• Prepare offering memoranda and marketing materials

• Participate in external client interaction

Who You Are

• Undergraduate degree in Math, Engineering, Business, Economics, or related discipline

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience

• Previous investment banking or corporate finance experience, combined with other relevant corporate finance training

• Extremely dedicated and motivated individual with high career aspirations. Must be capable of assuming significant levels of responsibility for assignments to be completed within short time frames

• Excellent analytical ability including demonstrated knowledge of valuation techniques and practices, including cash-flow analysis

• Strong technical, computational and quantitative skills

• Strong interest in and knowledge of financial markets and the energy or energy infrastructure sectors

• Excellent understanding of financial statements, credit analysis and accounting principles

• Knowledge of accounting principles relating to financial statement preparation and business combinations

• Proven ability to pay close attention to detail and multi-task