Investment Banking - EMEA M&A France - Associate - Paris

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is highly motivated to work in a dynamic team and to contribute to our Investment Banking business. This position is within J.P. Morgan’s leading Investment Banking European M&A team, based in Paris. It is a new opportunity to grow a new business vertical in partnership with the local Investment Banking and Commercial Banking teams across Europe and globally.

As an Associate within the M&A France team, you will be a pivotal player. Your responsibilities include participating in the full cycle of transactional execution, preparing marketing pitches, reviewing and formulating financial analysis, preparing and presenting internal committee memoranda and client presentations. You are expected to implement the execution function, work with analysts and associates, and assist more senior bankers. You must be highly enthusiastic about J.P. Morgan's mission and driven to succeed.

You will join the global Analyst/Associate class in an Industry, Country Coverage or Product Team, working with a broader team of over 100 analysts and associates in the region. Opportunities will involve real‑time transactions that may include frequent travel.

Job Responsibilities

• Build complex financial models and prepare valuation, merger and other analytical exercises.
• Draft presentation materials, management & board materials, memoranda, and other presentations for use in M&A transactions or strategic client dialogue.
• Keep abreast of key market developments and establish knowledge of the latest developments in the structuring and execution of M&A transactions.
• Collaborate closely with various industry, country and other product colleagues during origination and execution stages.
• Execute transaction specific responsibilities:
  • Help with organising and project managing M&A process.
  • Support due diligence, deal documentation and announcement preparation.
  • Liaise regularly with relevant counterparts at the client, other advisers, and in some cases, the regional regulators.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Prior investment banking experience.
• A well‑rounded academic background from a top tier educational institution.
• Outstanding financial modelling skills.
• Proven understanding of transaction cycle and the steps in the process.
• Impeccable communication skills and ability to interact with senior professionals, clients and key stakeholders in other lines of business.
• Demonstrated interest in and focus on M&A structuring.
• Eagerness to learn, develop and grow within corporate finance.
• Self‑directed, entrepreneurial, highly motivated, and able to work independently.
• Fluent in French and English.
• Solid understanding of broader IB products.
• Experience dealing with clients and other transactional advisers.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities and Skills

• Solid understanding of broader IB products.
• Experience dealing with clients and other transactional advisers.

Equal Opportunity Employment

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.