WHAT DOES AN INVESTMENT BANKER DO?

An Investment Banker’s role includes providing strategic advice to its clients and managing transactions on behalf of them. The individual banker has to work as part of a team to ensure that clients receive excellent advisory services. These clients range from small private companies to multi-national corporations and governments, or supranational organisations. Examples of the daily activities of an investment banker include assisting with the execution of advisory and capital-raising transactions, and preparing confidential information memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches and other presentations. They may be required to evaluate companies’ financial performance in comparison with overall industry and market trends, and to build complex financial models for valuation purposes, alongside other company and industry research.

An investment banker must be numerical and have a good grounding in mathematics (we require a minimum of an A grade at A-level or the equivalent) before learning about financial analysis and economics. A banker must develop good personal communications skills and be able to work closely with others, because many talents are needed to work together to conclude a transaction. The work, however, also requires discretion and will necessitate keeping personal and company data completely confidential. Diligence and accuracy, honesty and personal integrity are all essential in this industry. A banker needs to care about the service they provide their clients – we call this ‘being prepared to go the extra mile’.

What we do at Natrium Capital

Natrium Capital is an internationally-focused M&A boutique and specialises in providing strategic corporate finance advice to the chemicals, fine and specialty chemicals, personal care, engineering materials, sustainable technologies, paints, coatings and inks, adhesives and biotechnology industries and is focused on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), divestments, and strategic advisory projects.

What an analyst at Natrium Capital does

Natrium Capital analysts are involved in the following:

• Analysing detailed corporate and financial information
• Supporting senior staff in a range of research, analytical and presentation preparation roles and working within the team to provide clients with high quality levels of advice in a timely and efficient manner
• Assisting in the preparation of confidential information memoranda, management presentations, marketing pitches and other presentations
• Evaluating companies’ financial performance compared to overall industry and market trends
• Building complex financial models for valuation purposes
• Screening potential acquisition targets
• Preparing and managing secure data rooms on behalf of clients
• Contributing to industry studies, some of which are published as Chemical Reactions articles
• Attending team meetings and client discussions, sharing ideas and analysis
• Providing updates on companies to the team
• Keeping up to date with current affairs and news from industry relevant to Natrium Capital’s specialist sectors.

Is M&A for you?

If you would enjoy working in this exciting environment and you have the personal qualities that our team needs, please watch out for our invitations to apply for new roles in our expanding team. Sign up to follow Natrium Capital on LinkedIn here.