GROUP DESCRIPTION:
Jefferies’ Municipal Securities Group (MSG) currently employs more than 100 specialists focused on the municipal bond market and dedicated to structuring, underwriting, selling and trading municipal securities. Our team provides investment banking and capital markets advisory services to issuers of municipal debt, including states, cities, towns, state authorities, and 501(c)(3) borrowers, among others. With public sector and industry expertise, Jefferies has become a market leader in the areas of: airports; asset securitization; education; general government tax-backed; healthcare; housing; interest rate derivatives; public power; redevelopment finance; state revolving funds; tobacco securitization; transportation; water and sewer; and project financing.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
As an Analyst in the aviation/transportation sector within the MSG, you will rapidly assume significant responsibilities, including: providing financial modeling to support banking activities; building and maintaining a variety of databases; providing refunding and restructuring analyses; preparing proposal and presentation materials; working closely with senior bankers on transactions; and interfacing with underwriters, salesmen and traders. This position will start immediately.
Qualifications
REQUIRED BACKGROUND/SKILLS:
Strong technical, written and verbal communication skills
Demonstrated ability to multi-task, managing a variety of transactions and projects simultaneously and sometimes managing conflicting priorities
Resourceful self-starter, able to work autonomously and as team player
Detail-oriented and organized
Excellent interpersonal skills
QUALIFICATIONS:
Four-year undergraduate degree
1+ years of investment banking, consulting or relevant experience in the financial services industry
Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Demonstrate professionalism and client management skills
New York, New York
Jefferies Financial Group Inc., a financial services company, engages in investment banking and capital markets, asset management, and direct investing businesses in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. the company also offers equities research, sales, and trading services; equity finance services comprising financing, securities lending, and other prime brokerage services; and wealth management services to high net worth individuals, their families and businesses, private equity and venture funds, and small institutions.
In addition, it provides fixed income sales and trading services for investment grade corporate bonds, U.S. and European government and agency securities, municipal bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, leveraged loans, consumer loans, securities, markets debt, interest rate, and credit derivative products, as well as foreign exchange trade execution and securitization capabilities, as well as manages, invests in, and provides services to a group of alternative asset management platforms in investment strategies and asset classes.
The company was formerly known as Leucadia National Corporation and changed its name to Jefferies Financial Group Inc. in May 2018. Jefferies Financial Group Inc. was founded in 1968 and is headquartered in New York, New York.