Our middle-market investment banking practice seeks ambitious, creative, and experienced leaders who enjoy an entrepreneurial work environment and look to accelerate their professional development. Our Associate role is an industry generalist program that exposes bankers to a variety of business models, transaction dynamics, and management styles through close interaction with senior bankers across the practice. As an Investment Banking Associate, you will coordinate the activities of the various members of the Deloitte Corporate Finance transaction team (and often those of other Deloitte specialists) and manage daily communications with clients.
Work You’ll Do
You will be at the center of each transaction, providing leadership to your internal and client teams to meet the objectives of the process. As the quarterback of the transaction, an Associate will be responsible for working with senior bankers to manage the cadence and tactics core to the process. You will actively contribute to the strategic positioning of our clients to the market and, in the process, lead teams of analysts through models and analytics to support the creation of marketing and diligence documents. On the back end of the transaction, you will contribute to negotiation strategy and advise legal teams and clients on business issues in definitive agreements. Associates can expect to travel to pitches for new business, due diligence meetings with clients, and negotiations with strategic and private equity buyers.
Regardless of project type, your work will require:
- Superior leadership and management skills
- Superior organizational and project management skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong understanding of financial statements
- Ability to design and provide research-based financial recommendations as well as develop actionable solutions
- Experience working both independently and collaboratively with a team on multiple tasks and assignments
Our Deloitte team plays a major role in directly embedding technology insights into our clients’ organizational goals. At Deloitte, our consultants create sharply-focused solutions within an organization’s operating model, accounting for its people, intellectual capital, technology, and processes. Engagement teams at Deloitte drive value for our clients but also understand the importance of developing resources and contributing to the communities in which we work. We make it our business to take issue to impact, both within and beyond a client setting.
Required Qualifications
- Must be currently enrolled in an accredited college or university and expected to graduate by Spring or Summer 2027 or have completed an MBA degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, or Economics or a related/equivalent program
- 3+ years of full-time work experience
- Strong academic track record (3.0 cumulative GPA required)
- Must live within a commutable distance (e.g. 100-mile radius) of your assigned office with the ability to commute daily, if required
- Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
- Candidates must be at least 18 years of age at the time of employment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relevant work experience or work experience in a professional environment (e.g. internships, summer positions, school jobs)
- 3.2 cumulative GPA preferred
- Demonstrated recent leadership, such as in a campus club, society, sports teams or other activity
- Demonstrated recent social impact or volunteer activity
- Previous investment banking or M&A execution experience
- Experience performing financial modeling and analysis