Senior Associate, Capital Markets

Description

Senior Associate, Capital Markets

Alvarez & Marsal

London

Alvarez & Marsal (“A&M”) is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.7,500 staff and over 70 offices world-wide.  We offer a broad range of professional services including Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services. 

At A&M, we believe in the power of diverse teaming to solve complex problems, create value and drive change for our clients. We are a global market leader and we are differentiated as a firm by our professionals’ unique, varied backgrounds that allow us to serve our clients across the globe with both a practical and innovative approach.

A&M FSI works with leading Financial Services Institutions across Europe and our expertise revolves around four core areas: Performance Improvement, Loan Portfolio Advisory, Bank Restructuring and Regulatory Advisory. A&M provide assistance to clients that are underperforming or in need of a remediation, reorganisation or restructuring, helping clients navigate through complex and unique challenges that require thoughtful, tailored solutions. Our clients include banks, private equity investors, Insurance companies, regulatory authorities, wealth and asset managers and other specialist Financial Services firms.

With over 40 years of experience, our specialist Capital Markets team apply deep expertise through an array of specialist services to help create value, realise opportunity, operate efficiently and manage risk. We leverage this experience to support clients in highly specialised areas including; Risk & Regulation, Special situations, Trading issues, Disputes & Investigations, Data analysis & management, Performance improvement, Digital transformation, and complex Restructuring.

Our A&M Capital Markets teams work with some of the world’s biggest Capital Markets institutions represented within some of the world’s largest major indices including: FTSE100, S&P500, DAX40 and Hang Seng. We also work with many small / mid cap public and non-public firms across the banking, asset management, fund, energy trading, broking, trading and exchange sectors.

Due to continued expansion, an opportunity exists for a Senior Associate within our Capital Markets team to focus on specialist client support services to financial services and trading clients in areas including; risk and regulation, financial transformation, conduct issues & investigations and digital transformation. The successful candidate will work with our existing FSI teams to build the profile and reputation of A&M in Capital Markets across EMEA. 

Responsibilities;

• Contribute to complex advisory engagements, working closely with our Senior & Managing Directors
• Deliver the latest thinking in advisory and possess a highly developed appreciation of the unique challenges that Capital Market clients face including the end of quantitative easing, war, interest rates, market liquidity and volatility
• Work as part of a team on client site and contribute to stakeholder management including key client relationships and deliverables
• Participate in projects such as the implementation, remediation and specialist reviews of ICAAP, ILAAP, Recovery Plans, risk management frameworks, stress testing and other related regulatory requirements
• Provide technical, analytical and modelling support across trading & banking book products and also for projects focusing on liquidity, capital, treasury, recovery planning & IRRBB
• Assist in the development of A&M’s Capital Markets strategy including creating & developing thought leadership, contributing to pitches and client go to market propositions

Requirements

The successful candidate will be an execution-focused self-starter with entrepreneurial flair. They will be comfortable working independently as well as part of a high performing team.

Specifically, the successful candidate will have;

• A successful track record of delivering Capital Market projects preferably with a Financial Services institution or within a well-established consulting firm such as a top tier strategy firm, a leading specialist advisory firm or ‘Big 4’ consultancy
• Experience in advisory and implementation projects in relation to risk management, liquidity, capital, treasury, recovery planning & IRRBB
• Good capabilities in the implementation, remediation and specialist reviews of ICAAP, ILAAP, Recovery Plans, risk management frameworks, stress testing and other related regulatory requirements
• Knowledge in technical, analytical and modelling across trading & banking book products
• Well-developed skills in client delivery, with a desire to develop solutions and expand responsibility
• A strong academic track record combined with an action-oriented approach and well-developed analytical skills
• Fluent business level English is essential. Additional European language skills including French, Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian are advantageous

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Voluntary Inclusion

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family medical history or genetic information, political affiliation, military service, pregnancy, marital status, family status, religion, national origin, age or disability or any other non-merit based factor or any other characteristics in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.