Investment Banking Associate

Company Description

Sprout Capital Advisors LLP is leading mid-market boutique Investment Bank. Known for deep client engagement and high-integrity transaction execution, we have closed over 80+ transactions with a total size exceeding $900 million. Entrepreneurs rely on our innovative deal-making, unbounded by traditional constraints.

Role Description

This is a full-time, on-site role for an Investment Banking Associate located in Bangalore Urban. The Investment Banking Associate will be responsible for conducting financial modeling, due diligence, and valuation analyses. Day-to-day tasks include preparing and reviewing transactional documents, conducting market research, and assisting with client meetings. The role requires strong analytical skills and attention to detail, ensuring the highest quality in transaction execution.

• Interaction with founders from day 1 in the evaluation of potential deals
• Lead the entire deal execution in guidance of deal lead
• Ensuring preparation of high-quality collaterals including financial model, IM, Teasers, competition benchmarking, valuation comps, etc.
• Coordination of various due diligence processes (tax, financial, legal, etc.), investor/client calls & meetings, etc.
• Owning the finalisation of Deal Docs in coordination with Investor's counsel/advisors
• Owning the deal closure processes in coordination with the Investor's counsel/advisors, Company CS/finance team
• Building Industry/sector research for deal sourcing & assisting in finalising M&A/VC/PE mandates
• Preparation & updating of marketing materials for clients, media, conferences, etc.

Minimum Requirement: Front End Deal Making experience: 2+ years

Location: Bangalore

Who Should Not Apply:

• Candidates with no prior front-end IB experience should not apply.
• Only KPO/research/equity research experience would not count towards front-end IB experience and should not apply
• Candidates with no prior deal closure experience should not apply

What's Required

-Prior Experience

• A minimum of 24 months of front-end Investment Banking experience in a reputed IB firm. More experience in live deal-making is better & experience from a reputed firm is better
• Corp. development/M&A experience in leading start-ups or large institutions would count towards IB experience and are encouraged to apply

-Strong academic pedigree

• MBA (Top US/UK MBA Grad Schools/INSEAD/IIMs/ISB)
• Top tier undergrad (IIT/BITS) & CFA (minimum L2 should have been cleared)
• CA rank holders + CFA (L2+) + significant relevant work experience.
• MBA (FMS/XLRI/SPJIMR/IMT/JBIMS & other reputed institutes) + CFA (L2+) + significant relevant work experience.

-Skills

• Solid analytical skills with MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Strong presentation, pitch deck & IM making skills are non-negotiable
• Strong financial modelling skills are non-negotiable
• Market research and sizing skills
• Building Transaction & trading comps
• Thorough understanding of financial concepts, ratios
• Great and intuitive understanding of business concepts, ability to understand business using 1st principle, ability to put oneself in the shoes of an entrepreneur and Investor shoes and ask the right questions
• Great communication skills - both verbal & written

Passion/Entrepreneurial Spirit:

• Passion for deal making, a well-read person about the Indian start-up ecosystem is desirable
• Strong bias for action/initiative and entrepreneurial spirit
• A demonstrated hunger towards the field of investments, investment banking, and entrepreneurship
• Ability to prioritise effectively on a mix of long-term & short-term deadlines

What You Can Expect

• Front-end role - direct interaction with start-up founders from Day 1
• Ownership of deal execution
• Understanding of the full deal cycle - right from the first call with the founder to the time money is in the bank