Kiwi Securities offers a two year Mergers & Acquisitions Analyst program, with a discretionary third year for outstanding candidates.
As an Analyst with our Firm, you will receive all of the basic training you will need to complete detailed and thorough financial analysis of the transactions you will work on. You will become completely facile with financial and presentation software, and in using external and real time databases and information sources. You will learn how to value companies, and how to do DCF, LBO, Merger and Recapitalization analyses. You will come to Client meetings with our senior bankers on your teams, and learn the art of our business by observing, to complement the science you will perfect on a daily basis.
At the conclusion of your program, you will have gained a solid base of financial skills that will support you as you pursue the next step in your career, likely an MBA or other graduate program.
The Associate is perhaps at once our most challenging, but most rewarding, job at Kiwi Securities. You will be working on different Client transactions on a regular basis, finding yourself responsible for running deal execution day to day, supervising and helping train the Analysts on your team and learning about building Client relationships.
Our Associate program is four years in length, and our Associates typically come to us with an MBA from a top school, or a top graduate degree in finance or law.
From Associate, you can advance to the Vice President position, which is the first Officer level job at Kiwi Securities. This role is a senior position within our firm, and involves juggling several Client deals simultaneously, meaning communication, interpersonal and time-management skills become increasingly important. You have primary responsibility for meeting Client needs and (working with Kiwi Securities Managing Directors) ensuring deadlines and deliverables are met. You have a pivotal role as both role model and mentor to the KSI employees who are on your deal teams. Your technical skills have been honed through years of experience, and are a resource for those around you to draw on.
While some Vice Presidents will join Kiwi Securities from a background of deep experience such as a senior position at one of the major Wall Street firms, we are proud to look forward to the day when our Vice Presidents will become increasingly "home grown", rising up through the KSI ranks to in turn give back to those that gave to them. As Kiwi Securities grows, so will our sense of teamwork and accomplishment, led ably by our Vice Presidents.
After a suitable period honing and exhibiting your management and technical skills as a Vice President, you will be invited to assume the role of Director, a senior Officer position at Kiwi Securities. You will have highly developed interpersonal skills and possess valuable business judgment. Your ability to quickly and efficiently assess a Client situation, suggest innovative and timely solutions, and deliver a motivated KSI deal team to achieve it, will be skills that will be sought out by Clients and your KSI team members alike. You will be a trusted confidant of your Clients, and be winning repeat mandates and new business for the Firm.
Because of the respect and team spirit that Kiwi Securities Directors are expected to command and exhibit, it is our view that individuals are most likely to rise to this level from within our organization.
Our most senior Kiwi Securities Officer. The opportunity to become a Managing Director will be solely determined by you - to get to this level you must have proven yourself to be an outstanding all-rounder. You will exhibit top-notch technical skills, a depth of industry and Client knowledge, and have exemplary new business and Client service abilities. Your role with the Client will be one of a trusted broad-based business advisor. You will regularly win new business bake-offs and undertake industry and public speaking engagements in recognition of your leadership in the Mergers & Acquisitions business. You will have social and charitable responsibilities befitting a professional of your stature.
Those select individuals who are invited to join our team at this level will possess unparalleled experience in successfully completing complex and value-added Merger and Acquisitions transactions, and will command unmatched Client rolodexes to drive new business to our bottom line. Given the skills required, and the ability to sell our services across our entire Client universe, it is our view that Managing Directors will over time come predominantly from inside our firm.
So we saved the best part till last. And we're sure that when you get to know us, you'll agree that this is the best part.
Kiwi Securities is a dynamic, fun, and above all else challenging place to work. We deliver only first-class work, and our Clients respect us. Which taken together, means that we are always looking for people such as yourself to join us and prosper. While not everyone who applies will make the grade, if this kind of fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment sounds appealing, then we would like to hear from you.
Here are some ways you can do that. First, you can send us an email telling us what you would like us to know. Address it to John Cattau, Chief Administrative Officer of our Firm and in charge of recruiting, at jcattau@kiwisecurities.com. Don't forget to send us your resume as a Word attachment to your email.
Second, you can fax us over a cover letter and a resume, to (212) 209-8861. Address it to John Cattau, Chief Administrative Officer of our Firm and in charge of recruiting.
Finally, you can mail us a cover letter and a resume, again to John Cattau's attention, at our Head Office in Sands Point, NY. Our full address is on the Contact Us page, punch the button below to get it.
