2024 Financial Advisory Summer Analyst – Austin Venture & Growth Banking

Lazard has a simple and powerful model, focused on two businesses: Financial Advisory and Asset Management.  Through our Financial Advisory business, Lazard advises clients around the world on strategic and financial matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, capital structure and capital raising. Lazard provides advisory clients with a quality of service we believe no other firm can match. Our client relationships are built on trust and discretion. We are deeply established in business centers around the world, with meaningful local relationships and insight. As the world’s largest advisory-focused firm, we have exceptional depth of expertise across industry sectors and geographies.

Venture & Growth Banking team is one of the newest teams to be formed at Lazard and has grown from 8 to 25 FTEs in just over 2.5 years. The team focuses on raising capital for some of the most exciting companies across Europe and the United States at the forefront of technological innovation in their respective industries. The team has raised over $3bn in primary proceeds for our clients since arriving at Lazard across a multitude of stages and sectors.

Summer Analysts will become integral members of the Austin Venture & Growth Banking Group, joining bankers on the day-to-day support of transaction and marketing efforts and conducting broader administrative tasks required to facilitate the efficient running of the team.

In addition, our summer analysts participate in an on-going training program, starting with a week of training in New York. Classes held throughout the summer teach the basic fundamentals of banking, with a specific focus on modeling and relevant analytical techniques. 

Depending on your background, day-to-day responsibilities could include financial analysis and modeling, company and industry research, participating in the development of client presentations, and interacting with senior bankers and clients. Assignments fall into a range of categories, including M&A, divestitures, general and strategic advisory, and capital markets. Summer analysts are expected to spend nine weeks at the Firm.

Qualifications

Candidates should be university students in their penultimate year and top academic performers who are willing to work in an unstructured environment, which values initiative, creativity, maturity, and enthusiasm for learning. Academic backgrounds may vary (no background in finance or accounting is required), however candidates must be comfortable with basic financial concepts and enjoy quantitative work.  

This position is available in Austin.