Investment Banking Associate (M&A Capital Markets)

Location: New York, NY, United States; onsite role

Salary: $150,000–$225,000 annual base salary, plus potential discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is a global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm headquartered in New York with offices worldwide.

What you will do

• Advise clients with senior bankers on merger-related matters and strategic transactions across sectors, market capitalizations, and geographies.
• Architect and negotiate structured deal solutions, including M&A collars and cash-and-stock elections, in live M&A transactions.
• Develop capital markets insights for marketing and advisory assignments using market and transaction data.
• Analyze trading patterns related to activism, mergers, merger arbitrage, index fund trading, and activist accumulation.
• Synthesize investor feedback, trading desk color, market data, sell-side research, and third-party commentary to interpret investor sentiment.
• Analyze transaction structures, valuation impacts, event-driven trading dynamics, and the effects of acquisitions and separations on client valuations and equity stories; oversee and enhance proprietary datasets.

Requirements

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence interacting with clients and senior internal leaders.
• Ability to synthesize data into concise, client-ready slides, memos, and talking points.
• Demonstrated interest in equity markets, investor behavior, corporate finance, and the broader macroeconomic environment.
• Effective project management skills and the ability to prioritize competing projects and deadlines.
• Strong familiarity with company valuation concepts, including comparable company analysis, discounted cash flow analysis, leveraged buyout analysis, and merger math.
• Exceptional quantitative and technical skills, ideally including experience in statistics or data science.
• Strong team orientation and the ability to thrive in a small, collaborative environment with significant exposure to senior bankers across the firm.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative environment with exposure to senior bankers and high-profile client assignments.
• Training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, and professional growth resources.
• Benefits and wellness offerings for eligible active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees working at least 20 hours per week.
• Offerings include personal finance resources, mindfulness programs, and reasonable accommodations during the recruiting process.