Rubyworks - Senior Associate - Investment Banking

Position Overview:
We are looking for a Senior Associate Investment Banking to join our Investment Banking team and play a key role in M&A advisory, transaction execution, financial modelling, valuation, deal origination and client management.
The ideal candidate should have strong exposure to end-to-end transaction execution, excellent financial modelling and valuation skills, and the ability to work directly with clients, promoters, investors and other transaction stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
1. M&A & Deal Execution:
- Support and independently manage various stages of M&A transactions, including buy-side and sell-side mandates.
- Manage the preparation of investor presentations, pitch decks, information memorandums, and other strategic financial materials.
- Act as the primary point of contact for clients, managing expectations, delivering insights, and presenting findings.
- Support preparation and review of transaction documentation and deal-related materials.
2. Financial Modelling & Valuation:
- Build and review detailed 3-statement financial models and transaction models.
- Develop and analyze DCF, Merger, LBO, Accretion/Dilution and scenario/sensitivity models.
- Conduct valuation using DCF, Comparable Companies, Precedent Transactions and other relevant methodologies.
- Perform financial statement analysis, business analysis and transaction impact assessment.
- Identify key financial and operational drivers and translate them into meaningful valuation insights.
3. Deal Origination & Business Development:
- Conduct industry and market research to identify potential M&A and strategic opportunities.
- Support senior bankers in identifying prospective clients, targets, investors and buyers.
- Prepare pitch books, teasers, Information Memorandums (IMs), CIMs, management presentations and valuation materials.
- Contribute to developing proposals and marketing materials for new mandates.
- Maintain and develop relationships with existing and prospective clients.
4. Client & Stakeholder Management:
- Participate in client meetings, management discussions and investor interactions.
- Develop strong relationships with promoters, CXOs, PE/VC investors and other key stakeholders.

- Understand client requirements and translate them into actionable transaction strategies.
- Coordinate effectively with internal and external stakeholders throughout the deal lifecycle.
Qualifications:
- 3-4 years of relevant experience in Investment Banking, M&A, Transaction Advisory, Corporate Finance or related front-end transaction roles.
- Strong hands-on experience in M&A transaction execution.
- Excellent understanding of Financial Modelling and Valuation.
- Strong proficiency in DCF, Merger Models, LBO, Comparable Companies and Precedent Transactions.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, accounting principles and corporate finance.
- Experience in deal origination, pitching and business development will be highly preferred.
- Strong experience in preparing Pitch Books, Teasers, IMs/CIMs and Management Presentations.
- Strong client-facing and stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent analytical, research and problem-solving abilities.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel and PowerPoint.
- Exposure to databases such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg, FactSet, Refinitiv/Mergermarket will be an advantage.