About Ocean
Inspired by the tradition of merchant banks, Ocean provides bespoke solutions to medium-size enterprises across Europe. We assist companies that are facing challenges to obtain finance (debt or equity), to grow (find partners, M&A or joint ventures) or to change their governance. We adapt the solution during the course of the engagement as our clients' circumstances or situation may change, all with the objective of helping them reach out for the ambitions and dreams. We are a small, agile company with an international team of diverse experience and are excited to bring on board a new member of the team at this stage of our growth.
About the Role & the Team
The successful candidate will be an Analyst who will actively participate in the day-to-day activities of the Corporate Finance team for French, Spanish and Western European clients. This team of currently 3 people provides transversal support to the Distribution, Origination and Execution teams throughout the lifecycle of a transaction, from prospective origination to closing. When working on a transaction or supporting any team, the Corporate Finance team retains its critical thinking to detect any issues when screening client data and is able to flag any issue to the client and work with the client to clarify and resolve. Each project for a client evolves at its own speed, has its own specificities, and may change as the objective is to resolve a problem, not to implement a pre-determined solution; no deal or project is the same.
The successful candidate will grow and develop alongside Ocean, with clear scope for progression over the years.
More specifically, as an Analyst you will work together with the team to:
- File and review information provided by clients and assist Origination team to prepare supporting documents (teaser, memo, deck, as relevant)
- Complete clients onboarding and compliance processes
- Prepare decks for investors with the support of the Distribution team:
- Prepare description of companies including business lines, competition environment
- Prepare overview of company accounts, based on financial year end accounts
- Participate in the preparation of financial projections and business plan
- Describe envisaged transaction
- Support the organisation of NDAs for clients or investors and review comments, if any, in connection with the Legal team and assist investors with conflict checks when relevant, ensure internal filing of NDAs
- Support the Distribution team in the marketing process: prepare investors searches, presentation scripts, organising emails for distribution, collect and track investor feedback
- Maintain the CRM database
- Participate in weekly/bi-monthly reviews of the deal flow (pipeline), update and distribute the various pipeline file
- Prepare any additional ad hoc projects, such as conference preparation or ad hoc market summaries
Your experience:
- Graduate with no or limited professional experience in any sector and' with a profound desire to work in corporate finance at the service of mid market companies and entrepreneurs
- Basic to good numerical skills, knowledge of accounting is an advantage
- Good MS Office Skills (PowerPoint and Excel)
- Fluent English and an additional language (either Dutch, Spanish, German, Swedish, Norwegian or Danish) is necessary as the team regularly works with these countries
Your personal skills:
- You are committed and thrilled to help entrepreneurs' reach out for their ambitions and dreams
- You are a self-starter with a solution-first mindset and a sharp attention to detail, highly motivated and keen to learn
- You are a strong team player; you can work both in a small team and independently and are flexible to changing priorities
- When you see a problem or an issue you are able to explain this clearly and in succinct terms
- You understand the utmost important of discretion and confidentiality, which is paramount to our business (you will not be able to accept or invite clients or their employees on professional social networks such as LinkedIn)
- You are able to work at a fast pace, embracing an iterative process where a task may require a few attempts and interactions with colleagues or clients before it is successfully completed
What Ocean can offer you:
- £35,000 gross salary per year, depending on experience, and discretionary bonus
- Statutory pension plan
- 25 Holiday days excluding public holidays
- Exposure to all facets of private markets (debt & equity) and to mid-size companies across Europe from diverse industries
- A highly committed team with a long-term mindset, providing tailor made training & development programme over the years
- A growing and dynamic international company, with some opportunities for travel
- A bright and airy working environment next to St. Pauls in the heart of the City of London
Expected start date between July and September, with flexibility
The candidate may be requested as part of the hiring process to travel (at Ocean's expense) to meet our team based in Spain.
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