Associate, Global Portfolio Advisory

**Description** Associate, Global Portfolio Advisory Alvarez & Marsal Italy Alvarez & Marsal ("A&M") is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.7500 staff and over 70 offices world-wide. We offer a broad range of professional services including Restructuring, Transaction Advisory, Performance Improvement, Corporate Transformation, Financial Institutions Advisory, Tax, Valuations, and Disputes and Investigation Services. At A&M, we believe in the power of diverse teaming to solve complex problems, create value and drive change for our clients. We are a global market leader, and we are differentiated as a firm by our professionals' unique, varied backgrounds that allow us to serve our clients across the globe with both a practical and innovative approach. A&M FIAS works with leading Financial Services Institutions across Europe and revolves around four core areas of expertise: Performance Improvement, Loan Portfolio Advisory, Bank Restructuring and Regulatory Advisory. A&M's Portfolio Advisory Group (PAG) is a leading advisor to financial institutions, platforms, investors and financiers for credit, distressed assets, non-banking assets and real estate transactions. Reflecting its international marketplace, the team is headquartered in London and Madrid, with comprehensive coverage across markets in EMEA through our other offices. We provide advice to clients on a range of services including; - Asset options analysis & review - Loan strategy analysis & divestment execution - Transaction preparation and structuring - Portfolio due diligence & underwriting - M&A and transaction execution - Portfolio/asset valuation/pricing - Credit structuring - Asset on-/off-boarding - Operational segregation/carve-out - Data Analysis The team cover a range of products, such as credit advisory, corporate M&A (lending businesses, origination and servicing platforms for credit and real estate), secured funding and securitisation advisory. The team include many of the most respected, trusted and highly skilled advisors in the industry and they have advised on every major European non-core transaction in the past five years. Against a backdrop of unprecedented growth and promotions, an opportunity exists for us to strengthen our PAG team in Italy at the Associate level in order to contribute to a growing and highly experienced Senior Management team. As a valued member of the PAG team, you will work on a variety of projects, leveraging your Financial Services industry knowledge to advise financial institutions, private equity firms & other investment funds, asset managers, regulators and governments across the globe with advice on balance sheet & portfolio optimisation, acquisitions, disposals, financing, management, bank restructuring and resolutions. **Responsibilities**: - Work closely with stakeholders and professionals from leading financial institutions - Use the commercial aspects of your financial analysis skills, in addition to gaining exposure to the key drivers and valuation considerations which drive a transaction - Analyse market trends, financial metrics, and regulatory/legal restrictions to assess impact to client's portfolio and help evaluate different investment strategies - Assist in producing financial models and analysis of credit linked cash flow models and projections - Contribute to financial analysis, research and reports and the preparation of pitch presentations for potential clients - Collect, assimilate, and analyse relevant data to produce insights and solutions - Be an action-oriented self-starter with strong analytical skills - Be comfortable working independently as well as in a high performing team - Assisting in manipulating and analysing large quantities of data **Requirements**: - Experience in loan portfolio advisory. Examples include loan portfolio transactions (sell side or buy side), asset quality reviews and stress tests, loan file and portfolio reviews, loan loss estimates, valuations, loan restructuring and recovery solutions, securitisation transactions, bank performance improvement, merger integration initiatives and project management - A professional qualification including ACA / ACCA/ CFA qualification (or equivalent) is advantageous - Previous experience in the Financial Services industry including Investment Banking, Big 4 Firms or other well-established and respected boutique Advisory firms - Excellent financial analytical skills (Excel, Alteryx, Tableau, Python, etc) & presentation skills (Powerpoint) - Action-oriented self-starter with strong analytical skills - Methodical and logical mindset to problem solving, an effective approach to time management and the ability to work to tight deadlines - Fluent business level English & Italy is essential. Additional European language skills including French, Spanish, Dutch, German or Italian are highly desirable