Vice President, Investment Banking
FT Partners is an investment banking firm focused exclusively on financial technology. It provides strategic and financial advisory services, including M&A, capital raising, IPO advisory, valuations, and restructuring, to FinTech companies, founders, CEOs, boards, investors, and financial institutions.
About FT Partners
Financial Technology Partners, also known as FT Partners, is a global investment banking firm focused exclusively on the FinTech sector. The firm provides strategic advisory services such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, fairness opinions, and anti-raid advisory, as well as financial advisory services including private capital raising, private equity, restructuring and LBOs, IPO advisory, and valuations. FT Partners also operates a FinTech equity research and strategic insights platform, publishing market reports, transaction analysis, and research for institutional investors and industry executives. Its clients include early-stage startups, high-growth private companies, public companies, financial institutions, investors, CEOs, and boards of directors across the financial technology ecosystem.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead client strategy discussions, develop investment theses and presentations, manage deal processes from origination through closing, provide valuation expertise, oversee multiple workstreams, guide junior bankers, manage deadlines, support transaction execution, and contribute to business development.
Requirements
- 6+ years of full-time investment banking experience in M&A sell-side advisory
- FINRA Series 63 and 79 registration
- Undergraduate degree with a 3.5 GPA or greater
- Project leadership and management capability
- Organizational, execution, and time management skills
- Relationship management skills
- Presentation skills
- Strategic and analytical skills
- Quantitative and technical skills
- Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
- U.S. or U.K. work authorization depending on work location
- Exceptional writing and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Responsibilities
- Lead project models and strategy discussions with clients
- Build and illustrate client stories and investment theses
- Present analysis and insights to clients
- Manage deal processes from origination to close
- Analyze legal frameworks, shareholder rights, and term sheet items
- Analyze trading and transaction comparables
- Apply DCF, LBO, and related valuation techniques
- Construct valuation theses
- Manage multiple workstreams and deals
- Plan and execute project strategies
- Guide and delegate work to junior bankers
- Manage junior banker capacity and staffing
Benefits
- Strong and competitive compensation
- Excellent career path
- Unparalleled deal flow with premier client base
- Access to world-class executives at high-growth companies
- Close-knit, rapidly growing team