Investment Banking Director– Focus on Low Carbon Molecules

Job Title: 

Director, Investment Banking – Focus on Low Carbon Molecules

Location: 

Houston

About the role:

Support Marathon’s investment banking and financial advisory practice specifically related to leading the execution of financial advisory engagements for its Energy Transition clients. Primary responsibility for providing oversight, guidance, coordination, and leadership to Vice President and Associate team members across all facets of transaction execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Execute transactions for Energy Transition clients primarily operating within the low carbon molecules and carbon solutions sectors.
• Manage live deal execution, direct, and oversee advanced financial modeling and valuation analysis, lead complex financial and business due diligence.
• Work collaboratively with team members to cultivate new business opportunities through proactive origination efforts, including market research, networking and relationship building
• Provide comprehensive client coverage by maintaining regular communication, understanding client needs, and delivering tailored solutions to effectively address their requirements
• Plan, structure, and execute corporate finance transactions in public and private markets, including diligence discussions with client senior management, reviewing business plans, and analyzing historical and projected financial performance.
• Develop and present to CEO / CFO level corporate clients, including to Boards of Directors, across the energy sector on topics such as strategic alternatives, capital markets activities, restructuring alternatives and corporate governance issues at board meetings and pitches and on conference calls.
• Supervise, lead, guide and coordinate Vice President and Associate work product.
• Direct and review M&A, DCF and LBO modeling, integrated financial statement analysis, and statement modeling.
• Advise corporations on mergers, acquisitions, sell-side and buy-side asset transactions, debt and equity financing, and re-structuring.
• Advise private equity firms on M&A and financing transactions.
• Prepare and review drafts of financing and offering documents in conjunction with issuers counsel, underwriters counsel and internal legal counsel for both debt and equity offerings.
• Engage in internal team management and interactions with cross functional teams at the Firm which includes interacting with various product teams to develop and execute investment banking strategies, and reviewing, developing, and structuring diverse financing transactions.
• Provide mentoring and coaching to Vice Presidents and Associates.

Skills & Qualifications:

• High level of proficiency demonstrated during completion of undergraduate degree program, accounting, economics, and finance concentrations a plus
• Master’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or Business Administration preferred
• Six or more years of demonstrated investment banking transaction execution success; mix of both public and private company experience desired. Ideal candidate will have significant lead managed transaction experience across the broader energy complex; including power and renewables, upstream, midstream, downstream and petrochemicals
• Highly analytical, detail oriented, proactive, self-motivated
• Have a solid foundation and experience in project finance
• Proven experience directing and building complex financial models
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work on multiple assignments concurrently

About Marathon:

Over its more than two-decade history, Marathon Capital has emerged as a world leading independent advisory bank serving the global sustainable energy, technology and infrastructure markets. Marathon Capital is known as a key thought leader in global energy transition and is consistently viewed as the most innovative bank across clean energy. Marathon Capital is a leading Clean Energy advisor and has been a multi-year winner of M&A Advisor of the Year by Power, Finance & Risk Magazine. Since inception, Marathon Capital has been engaged by its clients and institutional counterparties across all clean energy sectors. The Firm has strong, established relationships with both strategic and financial institutional investors located globally. Marathon Capital is headquartered in Chicago, IL, with offices in New York, Houston, San Francisco, San Diego, London, and Calgary with presence in São Paulo, Madrid, and Seoul.