Our Associate Programme is designed for graduates with no or limited professional experience. New Associates enter the programme alongside Analysts who step up to full-time employment and enjoy the same career opportunities as Associates coming out of our Analyst Programme.
The programme is designed to ensure that new Associates develop the necessary tool box and professional skills to become high performing investment bankers.
Joining the Associate Programme offers you great career opportunities, a steep learning curve from working with a highly dedicated and experienced team, attractive incentives and international work exposure with high quality clients.
Assignments, training and education
As an Associate you are an integral part of our advisory team and get to work with some of the most experienced investment bankers in Denmark. You also work closely with many high profile corporate and private equity clients, counterparties and lawyers, consultants, accountants and other specialists.
You get to work on a variety of different assignments including formulating acquisition, divestment and exit strategies, executing divestments, acquisitions, IPOs and other strategic advisory services for our clients.
Daily duties include preparing and attending client meetings, interacting with counterparties and other advisors, preparing pitches, sales material, presentations, valuations, bids and other material relating to new and ongoing mandates.
To accelerate your learning and help you become a complete investment banker, you will be involved in our transactions from end-to-end. In addition to day-to-day on the job coaching with senior team members, you will also be participating in a number of training courses run by internal experts or external consultants.
Examples of training include:
- The fundamentals of investment banking and working as a strategic advisor.
- The fundamentals of M&A processes.
- Databases such as Dealogic, Mergermarket, Thomson, Bloomberg etc.
- Valuation using a DCF and/or LBO model.
- Valuation using peer group and comparable transaction multiples.
- Excel optimisation and modelling.
- Ad hoc seminars on team building, presentation skills and theoretical financial, accountancy and legal subjects.
A senior member of our advisory team will be assigned as your mentor and will be responsible for your development and successful integration into our team.