Analyst/associate, Global Portfolio Advisory

**Description** Analyst/Associate, Global Portfolio Advisory Alvarez & Marsal Madrid Alvarez & Marsal ("A&M") is a global consulting firm with more than $2+ billion in revenues, c.7000 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 - Data and analytics - Transaction preparation and structuring - M&A and transaction execution - Portfolio/asset valuation/pricing - Asset on-/off-boarding - Portfolio acquisition due diligence & underwriting - Operational segregation/carve-out 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) and secured funding and securitisation advisory and includes many of the most respected, trusted and highly skilled advisors in the industry. 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 either London or Madrid at the Analyst / 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. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to become involved in a 'hands on', market leading team, analysing & challenging the status quo and developing sound solutions providing significant value add for your clients. **Responsibilities**: - Work closely with stakeholders in the client's business and with professionals from leading financial institutions - Be an action-oriented self-starter with strong analytical skills - Be comfortable working independently as well as in a high performing team - Assisting in producing financial modelling and analysis of credit linked cash flow models and projections - Assisting in manipulating and analysing large quantities of data - Assisting in producing financial analysis, research and reports - Assist in the preparation of pitch presentations to potential clients - Collect, assimilate, and analyse relevant data and use standard processes and tools to help surface insights and solutions - Analyse market trends, financial metrics, and regulatory/legal restrictions to assess impact to client's portfolio and help evaluate different investment strategies - Playing a supporting role in the delivery of client presentations and attending client meetings when appropriate **Requirements**: - A professional qualification including 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 and Spanish is essential. Additional European language skills including French, Dutch, German or Italian are highly desirable - 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 re