Vice President Investment Banking/ M&A

The DAK Group, an expanding middle-market investment bank based in Bergen County, NJ, is seeking a highly motivated Vice President to join its thriving team. The Vice President role represents an excellent growth opportunity for operationally-minded, strategy-oriented, corporate finance professionals looking to build a career in mergers and acquisitions. The firm provides an excellent opportunity to gain an expansive breadth of hands-on experience in M&A, working on sell-side and buy-side assignments, as well as private equity and debt capital raises and financial restructuring assignments across all industry sectors. Vice Presidents at DAK enjoy a unique developmental opportunity, as junior bankers have the opportunity for far greater responsibility and recognition than at comparable investment banks.

Responsibilities Include:

• Working as a part of the investment banking team supporting senior dealmakers throughout all phases of the transaction process
• Lead and manage junior execution teams of Associates and Analysts
• Drafting portions of pitch materials, information memoranda and power point presentations.
• Lead due diligence, pitches and other meetings with client management; design and prepare key transaction materials including financial models, offering memoranda and management presentation with an emphasis on client positioning, growth opportunities and key investment considerations
• Performing company, industry, market and competitor research and due diligence.
• Serve as trusted advisor to client and prospective clients through relationship development and M&A execution expertise
• Contributing to the development of proposals and advice to current and prospective clients.

Desired Skills and Experience

• BA or BS degree with course work in accounting and finance preferred, CPA, MBA preferred but not required
• 5+ years prior work experience in investment banking, capital markets, corporate finance or M&A
• Demonstrated quantitative, analytic and financial modeling skills, including financial statement analysis
• Extraordinary critical thinking and problem solving ability
• High level of motivation and individual initiative
• High level of focus on work quality and attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage deal teams
• Proven multi-tasking skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills – ability to communicate/interface directly with clients and across deal teams (internally and externally)
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, with expertise in Excel, PowerPoint and Word

Interested candidates should send a cover letter with salary requirements and current resume to careers@dakgroup.com.
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