Investment Banking Analyst
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Dear [Hiring Manager], Over the last 18 months I supported four sell-side M&A processes from pitch through close, including a 320 million dollar industrials transaction where I built the operating model, ran the management-case sensitivities, and prepared the materials that went to fifteen strategic and sponsor buyers. I would like to bring that same intensity and ownership to the Analyst program at [Company]. I currently work in a corporate development group where I build three-statement models, run DCF and comparable-company analyses, and draft the board materials behind acquisition decisions. On a recent bolt-on, my accretion-dilution analysis flagged that the deal was dilutive under the original structure, which led the team to renegotiate the earnout and ultimately close it accretive in year two. I am fluent in the kind of detail this work demands: tie-outs, footnotes, and a model that does not break when an MD changes an assumption at 11pm. What I bring beyond the technical is reliability under deadline. I have turned a CIM draft around overnight without sacrificing accuracy, and I treat a 95 percent answer delivered late as a failure. The accretion-dilution model that flagged the original structure as dilutive is worth walking a team through line by line, since the renegotiated earnout only made sense once that analysis was on the table. I keep my models clean enough that anyone on the deal team could pick them up cold. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Phone] | [Email]