Senior Associate / Vice president ECM

ING Equity Capital Markets currently has a vacant Senior Associate / Vice President position.

ING Equity Capital Markets (ECM)

Our ECM team is a dynamic joint venture between Global Capital Markets (GCM) and Corporate Finance (CF), and part of the Capital Markets and Advisory division within ING Wholesale Banking. The team is advising companies on raising equity on international stock markets.

As part of our team, you’ll be involved in:

• Strategic Advisory: Guiding corporate clients through Initial Public Offerings (IPO), follow-on equity issues, and secondary offerings such as rights issues and accelerated bookbuild offerings (ABB).
• Capital Return Programs: Managing share buybacks, preference shares issuances, and equity-linked transactions like convertible bonds.
• Market Expertise and Origination: Collaborating with FM Equity Markets to originate, structure, and distribute equity and equity-linked transactions to a diverse range of institutional and retail investors.

The Corporate Finance department is the primary point of contact for advisory relationships with corporates and institutional investors, leading the execution of high-profile Equity Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions transactions. In the Benelux, ING Corporate Finance is the absolute #1 in both ECM and M&A. ING Corporate Finance adopts a sector-based approach, putting together client teams across borders to reflect local relationships and product specialists and to ensure the highest standards of transaction execution.

The Amsterdam office of ING CF is responsible for the origination and execution of transactions in a Benelux domestic and cross-border context, as part of ING Wholesale Banking’s European Corporate Finance team. The CF team in Amsterdam consists of over 50 professionals.

What do we offer

As an ECM Senior Associate / Vice President you will work in a dynamic, energetic, and highly motivated team. You will be supporting the team in originating, structuring, and executing high-profile ECM transactions, mainly in Europe (recent transactions include CM.com, B2Gold, Talabat, Nepi Rockcastle, CTP, CVC Capital Partners, Galderma, Xior Student Housing, Tui, Exor, Aedifica, Montea, Ebusco, Fugro, JDE Peet’s, Just Eat Takeaway, ALD Automotive, Vonovia, and Prosus).

The key development opportunities offered with the position:

• Transaction driven, dynamic and energetic environment
• Supporting ECM related client coverage
• Steep learning curve
• Day-to-day responsibility in transaction origination and execution across European Equity Capital Markets
• Assist in identifying and targeting new business opportunities across sectors to win business and clients
• Supporting strategic dialogues with clients
• Preparing presentations, financial modelling, conducting research on industries, sectors, and companies
• Maintaining close ties with the departments within and outside Capital Markets and Advisory
• Both soft and hard skills; pro-active coaching through buddy system
• Exposure within the broader ING organisation to a.o. Financial Markets, Capital Structuring & Advisory, Corporate Clients and Corporate Investments
• Many complex and demanding Equity Capital Markets transactions to showcase and develop your skillset

Who are we looking for

We are looking for candidates with 4-8 years of relevant working experience in ECM, M&A or strategic (corporate finance) advisory, and demonstratable affinity with equity markets. They are strong communicators, creative, dedicated and possess a high level of energy and attention to detail. Candidates furthermore have demonstratable interpersonal skills, project management skills, affinity with key databases (Bloomberg, CapitalIQ, Factset, etc.). Fluency in business English is required, and candidates are expected to reside in the Netherlands. Proficiency in the Dutch language is a plus.

A motivated cover letter (explaining your qualifications for the role) is required.

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here. The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your experience & qualifications

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

About us 

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Read more about that here: Working at ING   Join us and apply today!