Attributes

• Personal Impact – Able to build confidence quickly to be someone we want on the team and a client would want in their corner.
• Resilient – Able to work under (at times, fairly intense) pressure with definitive deadlines. A self-starter with a degree of accountability and self-confidence, able to project a professional and calm demeanour to gain trust and confidence.
• Fastidious – A methodical, process-driven nature that anticipates future issues and problems before they occur.
• Strong Commitment – To the job, team, and to excellence in client service.

Responsibilities

• Research and prepare presentations that identify and explain trends within our dedicated sectors.
• Prepare confidential operating as well as transactional models, information memorandums, presentations, and marketing documents in support of sale transactions.
• Support execution of mergers & acquisitions advisory mandates with a holistic footprint across the transaction workstreams (marketing, due diligence, project management & coordination).
• Involvement in the pitching process – collating materials and undertaking research and analysis.
• Critical analysis of financials and business data, communicating financial patterns, insights, and discrepancies.

Interns will also benefit from:

• A dedicated buddy and mentor for guidance and support
• Structured training sessions to build technical and analytical skills, as well as commercial judgment
• Direct interaction with deal teams to understand the M&A process
• Opportunities to develop professional confidence in a boutique investment banking environment

Our values

• Achievement: We are driven by attaining measurable success for our clients, our colleagues, our firm and ourselves.
• Empathy: We are excellent at understanding entrepreneurs. We are comfortable stepping into difficult, uncertain situations and figuring out a path forward, with competent humility. We know when to do the banking work and when to focus on human connections. We treat our clients as the savvy entrepreneurs that they are and listen, so that we can help them realise their vision.
• Integrity: What we do is consistent with what we say. We define expectations and meet those, every time.
• Teamwork: We value collaboration; we value our team. We work together to produce the best outcomes for our clients. We gravitate to working in teams even when solo work might be more efficient, easier, or faster.
• Entrepreneurial: We understand entrepreneurs because we are entrepreneurs ourselves. We all think and act like owners, which means we care passionately about our clients, our reputation, and our success.

Diversity, equality and inclusion

We are committed to making Equiteq a more diverse and inclusive workplace and recognise that starts with our approach to hiring but does not end there. We encourage applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds and commit that our hiring decisions will be based solely on an assessment of knowledge, skills and experience relevant to our role and our teams.