Apprentice Investment Banker Job Description

Stonemark Job Description
Apprentice - Investment Banker Business Broker

Employer:	Stonemark Corporation	Supervisor:	President
Location:	Seattle Office	Term:	Part or Full-time
Compensation:	Small Salary + Commission	Revised:	10/31/98
Advancement:	Associate Investment Banker	Compensation:	Substantial Commission

Apprenticeship:	After an 8 to 13 week Internship, Candidates spends up to 6 to 12 months in a study and hands-on experience, learning the basics of Investment Banking Business Brokerage. Works side-by-side with experienced Investment Banker to learn those skills necessary to become a full-fledged Investment Banker and Sales Representative. Apprentices are given the opportunity to earn commissions that could be substantial. Nominal salaries and draws are only occasionally provided. Work is anything and everything a Broker might do plus other tasks to assist the broker or the firm. This is a real chance to gain the skills required to become an effective Investment Banker and an opportunity to break into a highly lucrative career industry. At conclusion of the program, successful apprentices may be given the chance to join Stonemark as Associate Investment Bankers specializing in Business Brokerage of Financial Analysis. Click here for more details.
Employer:	Stonemark provides Merger & Acquisition consulting and intermediary services to medium sized and larger Northwest companies. Also invests for its own account.
Education:	Bachelor's in Business or other beneficial subject. Masters in Business preferred.
Experience:	Any business experience which shows knowledge of all business facets and good selling and negotiating skills is a plus. Work is demanding. Only those with intellect, perseverance and persuasive personality succeed.
Knowledge:	Must possess good understanding of all business facets but have especially solid grasp of accounting, finance and legal issues which affect business sales. Must be a salesperson at heart.
Personality:	Should have an extremely out-going and assertive nature, but must also have the ability to placate the emotional needs of others. Must also be a detailed person and precisely organized. Must be constant self-starter and a learn-a-holic. Must impress people with intelligence, honesty, integrity, ability to work, concern for client's interest.
Duties:	Apprentices assist with the management of all aspects of Merger & Acquisition assignments for Stonemark clients. Includes solicitation and sales; review and facilitation of fees; assisting in the investigation, research and preparation of offering documents; study, preparation and execution of marketing programs, database inputting and reports, canvassing and communications with clients, respondents, finders, Co brokers and others; qualification and relations with respondents; arrangement of and participation in negotiations concerning purchase and sale, coordination of due-diligence and closing procedures and some gopher work. Must maintain persistent and optimistic attitude toward resolving complex problems when other parties in the transaction have given up.
Skills:	Must be able to coordinate the needs of various parties, reconcile differences, design creative solutions to complex conflicts, and (most importantly) take the instigator role at all times. Must be able to work fast, smart and long hours. If the intermediary does not take charge of each transaction the transaction will ultimately fail. Successful candidates are those with unusual combination of guts, assertiveness, people skills and financial acumen.