Corporate Finance Associate Job in New Delhi at Bain & Company

Bain & Company is hiring for the role of Corporate Finance Associate!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Corporate Finance Associates may manage 1-3 Analysts and take responsibility for sharing appropriate information across work streams. Associates provide feedback and coach Analysts on task execution and role. The expectation is to eventually provide significant direction and support to resolve complex issues and effectively manage client and team meetings.
• Corporate Finance Associates are responsible for executing and at times driving the team’s overall answer, final materials, client communication, work planning, and team management on capital markets/corporate finance related projects.
• Corporate Finance Associates are expected to produce high quality, client-ready research and analysis, understanding implications and generating strong business insights
• Ability to think through the impact of any change in one financial metric across financial statements and impact on valuation. Ability to make sense of financial data, such as reasons for high or low growth, margins, returns, multiples, leverage, and accompanying competitive dynamics
• Communicate data, knowledge, and insight to the entire team. Generate and screen realistic solutions based on sound reality checks and recommend actionable solutions
• Effectively structure communication of insights from own workstream. Deliver clear and professional presentations to the team/team leaders/managers
• Consistently seek and provide meaningful and actionable feedback in all interactions; recognize different skills and development needs in oneself and work towards them. Assist with Office Management roles (e.g., recruiting, marketing, training, etc.

Requirements:

• Candidates should be graduates/post graduates with specialization in finance with strong academic records
• Work experience range in case highest qualification is undergraduate studies 2-5 years of relevant experience and in case highest qualification is postgraduate studies 0-3 years of relevant experience in investment banking, equity research or consulting with corporate finance exposure
• Strong understanding of financial statement analysis, ratio analysis and underlying valuation principals, ability to connect financial performance to valuations with a flair for numbers and fair knowledge of equity markets to generate compelling insights and equity story with a focus on ‘so what’
• Proficient professional with sound business logic, thought leadership and ability to structure approaches to answer complex business questions
• Cross link different business models and multiple industries key dynamics, using key drivers/KPIs behind operational and financial performance
• Candidates should possess excellent analytical, communication, and team player skills ability to handle multiple tasks and work under pressure
• Good to have first level team management responsibility involving allocating and reviewing work to a small team of analysts and conducting performance discussions, writing reviews for appraisal
• Preference for candidates with CA CFA
• Strong skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint are required
• Exposure to Python and GenAI would be preferred.