About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Sports Finance & Advisory within Commercial Banking (Financial Services).

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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Role overview

Confidential Client’s Sports Finance & Advisory team (within Commercial Banking) is hiring a Commercial Associate to support client coverage, market analysis, and transaction execution. This role delivers data-driven insights, builds pitch materials, and helps coordinate cross-functional teams to design financing and advisory solutions for sports-related organizations and their partners.

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What You’ll Do

• Support analysis of market, industry and client data to develop insights for meetings, pitchbooks and relationship reviews.
• Prepare presentations, pitch materials and client deliverables in collaboration with Relationship Managers, Group Head and Market Executive.
• Build and maintain financial models and perform company and industry financial analysis.
• Observe and assist with credit approval, treasury, and product packaging to understand solution design and underwriting needs.
• Coordinate internal product and deal teams during transactions and support execution tasks.
• Monitor client activity, produce new-business analytics, and identify opportunities for portfolio optimization and cross-sell.
• Work with domestic and international teammates including Investment Banking, FX, Wealth Management and Product Specialists to align solutions to client needs.

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Required qualifications

• Minimum of two years of professional or business experience.
• Highly proficient financial modeling skills.
• Strong ability to analyze and interpret corporate financial statements and cash flow.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook.
• Strong attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to work proactively and independently.
• Effective interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in a team environment.

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Desired qualifications

• Prior internship or entry-level experience in financial services.
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field.

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Work expectations & schedule

• This is a deadline-driven role supporting evolving priorities; occasional extended availability or travel may be required.
• Shift: 1st shift. Hours per week: 40.
• This position may be filled at the Commercial Associate or Senior Commercial Associate level depending on experience.

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Skills & tools

• Continuous improvement and project management
• Data visualization and market/trend analysis
• Relationship building, client management and business development
• Financial analysis, forecasting and pipeline management
• Risk management and referral identification
• Microsoft Office (Excel/PowerPoint/Word/Outlook)

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Compensation (source estimate)

• Estimated pay: $106,440 per year (estimated by source). Do not rely on this as a guarantee; final terms are determined by Confidential Client.

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Why join (summary)

Join a specialized sports finance advisory team that works across leagues, teams, venues and related media/content companies. This role offers hands-on exposure to commercial banking products, cross-functional deal teams, and opportunities to build financial modeling and client-facing experience in a high-growth industry vertical.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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