The Life (Or The Lack Of It) of A Investment Banking Analyst

Key Work

• 1. Preparing all documents and memorandums from proposals/pitchbooks to information/offering memorandum for potential investors
  
  
• 2. Building, running, updating and maintaining financial models
  
  
• 3. Supporting senior personnel during meetings, conference calls and presentations
  
  
• 4. Multi-tasking - On x number of projects at any one time
  
  
• 5. Administrative Stuff - anything a clerical assistant or secretary does
  

Food for Thought

• 1. At the MD & VP level, more time will be spent on relationship building and client interaction skills, so it pays to acquire these skills during your analyst days.
  
  
• 2. There have been murmurs of increasing outsourcing and standardisation of research and other technical aspects of the work (e..g financial modeling), in the form of a global research centre to support literally everyone to cut costs. Will the role of the investment banking analyst/associate disappear?