Senior Coverage Banker - BFSI/Fintech

About the Role:

Our client is a leading private markets investment banking platform looking to hire a senior coverage banker to lead and expand its BFSI and fintech coverage. The role is suited for someone who has strong relationships across founders, financial sponsors, strategic investors, and senior stakeholders in the financial services ecosystem.

The individual will be expected to originate, lead, and execute transactions across growth capital, M&A, secondaries, pre-IPO, and other strategic advisory mandates.

Key Responsibilities:

- Build and deepen coverage across BFSI, fintech, insurtech, lending, payments, wealthtech, banking, NBFCs, and adjacent financial services businesses.

- Originate high-quality mandates across fundraise, M&A, strategic advisory, and liquidity events.

- Maintain active relationships with founders, promoters, CXOs, private equity funds, venture capital funds, family offices, and strategic buyers.

- Lead transaction execution, including positioning, investor strategy, valuation, negotiation, diligence coordination, and deal closure.

- Develop strong sector theses and identify emerging opportunities across BFSI and fintech.

- Work closely with internal teams to convert relationships and market intelligence into executable mandates.

- Represent the platform externally with credibility across investors, founders, and senior decision-makers.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

- Over 15 years of experience in investment banking, private markets advisory, M&A, corporate finance, or related financial services coverage.

- Meaningful BFSI - fintech sector exposure is essential.

- Demonstrated ability to originate and execute transactions independently or with limited supervision.

- Strong network across financial sponsors, founders, strategic investors, and financial services institutions.

- Experience across growth equity, M&A, secondaries, pre-IPO, or private capital advisory will be highly relevant.

- Commercially sharp, relationship-led, entrepreneurial, and comfortable operating in a high-ownership environment.

- Strong communication, negotiation, and senior stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Backgrounds:

- Investment banking platforms, boutique advisory firms, private markets advisory firms, Big 4 corporate finance - deal advisory, or financial services-focused M&A teams.

- Candidates with a mix of sector relationships, transaction execution depth, and origination capability will be prioritized.