Join us as an Associate, Large Cap, Leveraged & Acquisition Finance
- You’ll contribute towards the delivery of our Leveraged & Acquisition franchise across both Sponsor and Corporate customers
- The team serves as a centre of excellence and offers subject matter expertise for event driven financing in the sub-investment grade space
- As a franchise we seek driven and passionate individuals with a diverse skillset
- This is an opportunity for you to develop your knowledge and skills, in an environment where we take a real investment in your development and have a track record of investing in individuals
What you'll do
You’ll be a member of a specialist product team leading end-to-end execution and origination workstreams for our customers. You’ll also collaborate with stakeholders across the bank, as well as external clients and advisors.
You’ll also be:
- Undertaking credit analysis including writing credit papers, reviewing due diligence, and building leveraged buy-out models
- Preparing marketing materials such as lender presentations and offering memorandums
- Reviewing legal documentation including term sheets and other finance documents
- Guiding support teams on internal processes such as know-your-client checks and funding
- Supporting origination workstreams by preparing high quality pitch materials and collaborating with stakeholders across the bank including client coverage leads
- Liaising with external clients and advisors to successfully execute transactions
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone who enjoys working in a fast paced, demanding and rewarding environment. You’ll need a strong diverse set of technical and practical skills, including credit analysis, financial statement analysis and modelling.
You’ll also need:
- Excellent time management skills, including the ability to juggle multiple workstreams and prioritise where required
- Unparalleled attention to detail
- The ability to present your view on transaction credit strengths and considerations to key stakeholders in deal team discussions and at credit committees
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work in teams with a diverse group of individuals
- A proactive and motivated approach to drive, workstreams, culture and take personal ownership of your own career progression
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
27/08/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Credit analysis and writing credit papers
- Financial statement analysis
- Building leveraged buy-out (LBO) models and financial modelling
- Preparing marketing materials such as lender presentations and offering memorandums
- Reviewing legal documentation including term sheets and finance documents
- Excellent time management and ability to manage multiple workstreams
- Unparalleled attention to detail
- Ability to present credit views to stakeholders and at credit committees
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in diverse teams
- Proactive and motivated approach with personal ownership of career progression
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
