Vice President, Corporate Development
| Posting date: | 31 July 2025 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00261050 |
Summary
Join us as a Vice President, Corporate Development
- Joining our Corporate Development team as a Vice President, you'll advise on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) opportunities for the bank, providing in-house transaction advisory and execution services
- Undertake a lead role on M&A, investment and partnership transactions and complete analytical assessments of opportunities, with business transformation as a key deliverable
- Evaluate the overall value of a transaction to the bank, supporting the accountable senior transaction lead and head of team
- This is an office-first job, so most of your time will be spent on site in our London office
What you'll do
As a Vice President, you’ll take responsibility for ensuring that detailed financial and strategic analysis and due diligence is completed to a high standard and provide appropriate challenge to support and protect the bank’s interests in a transaction. You’ll also provide insights to negotiate transactions on behalf of the bank, using sound judgement and reasoning to deliver optimal outcomes.
In addition, you’ll be:
- Providing support on a wide range of transaction assessments spanning both larger, more complex transactions and smaller deals
- Collaborating across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups and building effective working relationships across the bank and its external advisor network
- Creating, analysing and evaluating internal papers to see that appropriate financial rigour and reasoning have been applied in the submission, and the business case is aligned with the bank’s strategic priorities
- Using your technical and business knowledge to highlight areas where further analysis or detail is required, or points require further emphasis
- Presenting the analytical outputs, options and conclusions to senior colleagues
- Leading, monitoring and acting accordingly to make sure that the plan for the transaction and all risks, issues and dependencies are addressed
- Utilising market and competitor awareness to identify additional options and opportunities for the bank
The skills you'll need
You’ll bring extensive experience from one or more of the following: investment banking (such as M&A advisory or Financial Institution Group teams), a bank's inhouse corporate development team, corporate finance advisory teams or transaction services teams. It's also strongly preferred that you'll be either a qualified chartered accountant or a Level 3 Chartered Financial Analyst.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Exceptional analytical and financial modelling capabilities, including detailed knowledge of financial accounting principles and valuation methodologies
- Strategic insight and commercial awareness
- Knowledge of regulatory capital and accounting standards
- An understanding of corporate law and how it affects M&A