Investment Banking Associate II - Financial Institutions Group (New York)

Job Description Responsibilities: Make authoritative recommendations about technical or professional solutions that would significantly improve business performance. Develop innovative solutions by integrating and analyzing complex and diverse information sources. Make authoritative recommendations that have a significant impact on the business over the short and long term. Recommendations could be technical or professional in nature. Develop functional or operational policies and help develop policy frameworks for area of responsibility or department. Take responsibility for creating underlying procedures and monitoring their implementation. Manage a range of investment portfolios through in-depth market and sector analysis while maintaining a wide range of external relationships. Participate in the formulation and evolution of general investment policy. Work on complex administrative processes and databases to develop and test administrative procedures to ensure they are fully in line with organizational needs. Develop short- or medium-term work schedules in order to achieve planned commitments. Approve overtime or use additional resources as needed. Build complex frameworks to fully assess the scope and context of short-term and long-term business needs. Act as a business partner to important internal customers and manage relationships with them, while taking guidance from senior colleagues. Develop and/or deliver a plan for significant aspects of internal communications with guidance from senior colleagues. Develop and write materials that are highly visible, such as sensitive press releases or speeches to critical audiences. Develop and/or deliver a contingency plan for significant aspects of the risk management and/or risk control processes. Skills: Acts as the organization's authority and established expert on understanding and using standard office equipment and standard software packages to support business processes. Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making. Acts with expertise as the organization's authority on using clear and effective verbal communications skills to express ideas, request actions and formulate plans or policies. Uses expertise to act as organizational authority on planning, organizing, prioritizing and overseeing activities to efficiently meet business objectives. Uses expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives. Applies expertise to act as the organizational authority on developing appropriate plans or performing necessary actions based on recommendations and requirements. Uses an expert understanding of numerical concepts to act as organizational authority on performing mathematical operations such as report analysis. Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on interpreting and applying knowledge of laws, regulations and policies in area of expertise. Acts as the organizational authority and established expert on acquiring, organizing, protecting and processing data to fulfill business objectives. Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others on managing client accounts in a way that provides benefits both for the organization and its clients. Works at an advanced level to analyze potential solutions and create recommendations based on the expected benefits, costs, and overall value of the solution for key stakeholders. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Works at an advanced level to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Works at an advanced level to interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Acts independently using comprehensive knowledge and/or skills to conduct research and analyze data while guiding and training others on how to develop a comprehensive understanding of customer and market conditions that enables maximum return on investments. Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others to orient the seller's organization around delivering to the key needs of their customers. Works at an advanced level to envision and document the future state of processes and products by identifying the solution scope, potential value of the future state, and the changes to the process, products, organization infrastructure, capabilities, and technology necessary to achieve the desired future state. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others to explore the depth and breadth of a problem, draw out the implications of not changing, and help clients self-discover and articulate the value of a solution. Works at an advanced level to conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy. Typically works independently and provides guidance. Uses comprehensive knowledge and skills to act independently while guiding and training others to uncover clients’ explicit needs and/or unforeseen opportunities and challenges. Education Bachelor’s: Accounting, Bachelor’s: Business Administration, Bachelor’s: Finance Work Experience General Experience – 10 to 15 years Certifications Securities Industry Essentials Exam (SIE) - Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Salary Range $100,000.00-$200000.00 Travel Workstyle Resident At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. We expect our associates at all levels to: • Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same • Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes • Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind • Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter • Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Raymond James is a diversified financial services company providing wealth management, capital markets, asset management, banking and other services to individuals, corporations and municipalities. Founded in 1962 in St. Petersburg, Florida, rather than on Wall Street, we have always embraced being a different kind of financial services firm. Today, Raymond James has locations and subsidiaries across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RJF. Thanks for your interest in working with Raymond James. While we might not have the perfect role for you today, we'd love to keep in touch. Join our Talent Network to stay up to date on career opportunities that may be a good fit for you. Our business is deeply focused on people and their financial well-being. We're committed to helping individuals, corporations and institutions achieve their goals, while also supporting successful professionals and helping our communities prosper. We believe doing well and doing good aren't mutually exclusive. As an established but ever-evolving company, you can start – or continue – growing your career here. We invest in you with wide-ranging benefits and the support of leaders and colleagues who care. From development opportunities and enriching networking groups to prioritizing diversity, inclusion and the power of different perspectives, Raymond James is where good people grow. Our people-first culture is outlined in our Culture Blueprint. Check it out to see why many choose to work at Raymond James – and why they stay.

Salary : $100,000 - $200,000