Corporate Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions

You'll need to have obtained or be studying towards a minimum 2:1 in any degree discipline and have graduated by September 2027 for the Autumn 2027 intake.

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When working in Corporate Finance, you'll be advising companies through a range of different challenges. This might involve helping a company get a multi-million-pound loan for a new acquisition, finding an acquirer for your client's business at an attractive price, helping a struggling company become more profitable or preventing a company's insolvency by renegotiating a loan.

Your responsibilities might include:

• Assisting in the preparation of information about a company or business venture to present to lenders or potential acquirers.
• Preparation of financial models to explain the impacts of certain actions on a business's financial statements.
• Helping negotiate terms to achieve the best outcomes for your clients.
• Discussions with senior management teams to understand more about their business challenges and how we can help.
• Helping clients to buy businesses: helping them to grow, access new markets and assets, and to better source finance.
• Helping clients to sell businesses: helping stakeholders realise value and achieve maximum returns and prioritise areas for growth of their wider businesses.
• Involvement in a range of business development activities, mainly consisting of market research.

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As a Graduate within Corporate Finance and as part of the M&A rotational programme, you will complete the ACA via accelerated route.

This role is part of our three-year M&A rotation graduate scheme. You'll start in Corporate Finance (your "home offering area") and gain valuable experience through two further rotations within different M&A offering areas. This structured approach allows you to build a comprehensive understanding of the M&A business as a whole, develop key skills, and network across the team. You'll return to your home offering area at the end of the programme.

Your development will be supported by your People Leader, project colleagues, mentor, and buddy. This tailored approach allows you to focus on developing your strengths, whether in technical expertise, communication, project management, or creative problem-solving, based on your project experiences.

Application deadlines: The closing deadline for this role is Monday 19th October 2026 (10am BST), but we recommend getting your application in as soon as possible. Please note, some of our roles may close before the deadline if we experience high demand.

Assessment deadlines: Once you've applied to this role, you'll receive an email from our recruitment team outlining next steps and the relevant deadlines for you to complete the following stages of our process.

We operate a strict one application per year policy across our Early Careers opportunities. We recommend only submitting an application for a role that you feel is right for you.

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