Position:
Financial Technology Partners is seeking UK Investment Banking Analyst Interns for a six (6) month internship program in London, starting in January 2025.
Firm Overview
FT Partners is one of the most successful boutique investment banks on Wall Street. Headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in NYC and London, FT Partners has advised on some of the most meaningful transactions in the high-growth Financial Technology sector in recent years. We offer a full suite of financial and strategic advisory services, including merger and acquisition advisory, private capital raising and capital markets advisory. We are a global firm with 200+ professionals that prides itself on promoting an extremely collegial and energetic culture.
Every member of the organisation is expected to meaningfully contribute to the firm’s success. Senior bankers at the firm are formerly of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Evercore and Barclays, among others.
Role Description
Our six-month Analyst Intern Program enables interns to provide support for all aspects of a transaction from sourcing, through origination and all the way to closing. They work directly with the investment banking team who are responsible for the day-to-day activities of each transaction. Responsibilities include: financial modelling, company valuation, financial performance analysis, corporate and industry research, due diligence, strategic analyses of companies, preparation of marketing and presentation materials, management presentations and transaction documentation.
High performing Analyst Interns will be offered the opportunity to convert to full-time Analysts in July 2025.
The key responsibilities include:
- Financial modelling, company valuation, and financial performance analysis
- Analysing data using mathematical models and statistical techniques
- Preparing reports, tables and charts that present research results
- Working alongside senior bankers to provide clients with M&A and financing services
- Modelling complex M&A and financing scenarios
Communication Skills
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, able to prepare high impact materials
- Participates effectively in both internal and external meetings
- Maturity and poise to work directly with client and senior bankers
Team Player
- Team player who contributes to building a positive team spirit, keeps commitments, inspires the trust of others, works with integrity and ethically and upholds firm values
- Ability to perform under pressure, amid tight deadlines; can effectively prioritise and plan
- Collaborative across teams and levels, both internally and externally
- Understands coaching for long-term development of self and others
General Qualifications
- U.K. work authorization required; FT Partners does not sponsor applicants for work visas
- Ability to start in January 2025, complete the internship program until the end of June, and convert to a full-time, two-year Analyst program in July 2025, if offered
- Please ensure your CV includes your graduation date
- Internships or <3 months full-time experience in investment banking, or related industries
- University degree, Finance or Accounting majors preferred
- Minimum 2:1 required
- Excellent problem solving and analytical ability
- Strong work ethic and a drive for excellence
- Ability to perform under pressure amid tight deadlines
- Team player, self-motivated, and entrepreneurial
- Strong quantitative and technical skills
- Strong data management and research skills
- Extraordinary attention to detail
Why FT Partners?
- Managing Partner and Managing Directors formerly of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and other bulge bracket banks
- Award-winning execution; Investment Bank of the Year / Boutique of the Year Awards (among many others)
- Executing both billion dollar and early stage / high-growth VC transactions
- Excellent career path, strong and competitive compensation
- Unparalleled deal flow with premier client base
- Access to world-class executives at high-growth companies
- Dominant footprint in the one of largest, fastest growing sectors: financial technology
- Top-notch financial sponsor relationships
- Close-knit, highly talented and rapidly growing team
Selected transactions include advising:
- Divvy's $2.5 billion Sale to Bill.com
- Truebill’s $1.3 billion Sale to Rocket Companies
- Currencycloud’s ~$1 billion Sale to Visa
- Revolut's $800 million Financing at a $33 billion Valuation
- Mollie’s $800 million Financing at a $6.5 billion Valuation
- Lendable’s $275 million Financing at a $4.5 billion Valuation
- Mambu’s ~$266 million Series E Financing at a ~$5.5 billion Valuation
- Bilt’s $200 million Financing at a $3.1 billion Valuation
- Capital on Tap’s $110 million Financing
- Thunes’ $60 million Series C Financing
- com’s $60 million Series C Financing at a $1.2 billion Valuation
- Kantox’s Sale to BNP Paribas
- MultiSafepay’s Sale to Antom
- Acorns’ Acquisition of GoHenry
Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment:
Financial Technology Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation or any other legally-protected factors.
