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Date live: Apr. 22, 2025

Business Area: Banking Coverage & Structuring

Area of Expertise: Investment Banking

Reference Code: JR-0000049213

Contract: Permanent

Join us at Barclays as an Investment Banking M&A VP, where you will have the chance to focus on structuring complex transactions, specializing in tax, accounting and legal issues. You will bring your expertise in spin-offs, split-offs, UPC-Cs, IPOs, RMTs and Joint Ventures.


You will play a key role in projects such as company valuation, strategic advisory and execution of debt and equity offerings. You will create financial analysis/ modeling, industry research, and coordinate with internal teams related to a financing or sale. Ensuring a fast and unparalleled customer service to our clients.


To be successful as an Investment Banking M&A VP, you should possess:

  •   Law degree and experience in tax, mergers and acquisitions team at a law firm  

  •  Deep understanding of the business of finances

  • Prior experience in Tax M&A Structuring  


Some other highly valued skills may include:

  • Prior Business experience

  • Knowledge of a broad range of corporate and partnership tax matters in various industries 

  • Good team orientation and a demonstrated ability to work effectively with team members and key stakeholders


You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.


This role is based in New York.


This role is regulated by FINRA.


Minimum Salary: $250,000
Maximum Salary: $275,000 

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above include only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any another type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Purpose of the role

To provide strategic, valuation analysis, negotiation and deal structuring support on public and private mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, divestitures and identify, evaluate, and execute on potential deals.  

Accountabilities

  • Collaboration with Coverage and Capital Markets groups, as well as cross-functional teams, including legal, compliance, and other stakeholders, to originate and execute successful M&A transactions.  .
  • Conducting in-depth financial analysis, including modelling and valuation, to assess potential M&A opportunities, risks and mitigation action, alongside their impact on clients' financial positions and alignment with the clients’ strategic objectives.  .
  • Structuring the deal and negotiating terms, collaborating with legal and financial colleagues to ensure that the deal is fair from a financial point of view  .
  • Coordination of client’s due diligence processes, including tax, legal, financial, and operational assessments of potential target companies.  .
  • Management of various aspects of M&A transactions, ensuring they progress efficiently and meet client expectations.  .

Vice President Expectations

  • To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
  • If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
  • If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
  • OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
  • Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
  • Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
  • Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
  • Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
  • Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
  • Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
  • Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
  • Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.

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