Description
Alvarez & Marsal, Frankfurt
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.
With over 10,000 people providing services across the world, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.
A&M Culture
A&M is a growing business, and our people have extensive client exposure and the opportunity to be involved in business development activities.
Our culture is a highly dynamic and responsive one that has evolved out of excelling in complex and urgent situations. We are unrestricted by any conflict with Audit services and the issues caused that are typical in many of our competitors.
The Financial Services Industry group advises the C-level of large European and French Financial Institutions (banks, insurances companies, wealth- and asset managers, payment and financial infrastructure operators, fintech, etc...) as well as Private Equity sponsors by proposing integrated advisory services along the whole value creation transformation: growth strategies, portfolio advisory and M&A, due-diligence, strategic transformation, performance improvement. A&M FSI also brings restructuring & turnaround expertise to distressed assets and companies.
We are now expanding our German Financial Services Industry team, and we are looking for ambitious Interns to be based in Frankfurt and bound to work across the European team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to learn more about financial services advisory and become involved in a ‘hands-on’ team.
The successful candidate will:
• Join a growing team with strong leadership, bright and energetic people with a truly entrepreneurial spirit and a strong industry knowledge
• Acquire a sound understanding of the banking, insurance, wealth- and asset markets
• Gain exposure to the Financial institutions network
• Gain experience in strategy consulting and transformation approaches through projects and by supporting commercial development
• Operate in a pan-European team .
The main tasks will include:
• Work very closely with our senior management and support the business growth
• Support the commercial activity: structure and carry out essential research and market analysis and help to prepare “points of view” documents
• Participate in projects and be embedded in client-facing teams: preparing analysis and modelling, writing client documents, participating in workshops, etc.
• Assisting in managing intelligence on forthcoming deals, and working on targeting Financial Institutions
Requirements:
• Fluent German and English (both are mandatory) written and spoken, a third language is welcome
• At least a 6-months previous internship experience, preferably in financial services (banks, insurance, fintech, etc.) or M&A, strategy consulting, auditing, transaction services
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, sound business-sense
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Proficient with Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Available and eligible for an internship of 6 months in Frankfurt, Germany
