Investment Banking Analyst

Position Overview

Harris Williams seeks to hire an Investment Banking Analyst to join the Cleveland, Ohio office.Harris Williams will not provide sponsorship for employment visas or participate in STEM OPT for this position.

Job Description

About Harris Williams

We are a global investment bank specializing in M&A and private capital advisory services. Clients worldwide rely on us to help unlock value in their business and turn ambitious goals into reality. We approach every engagement with boundless collaboration, pooling expertise and relationships across industries, service offerings, and geographies. For over 35 years, our clients have trusted us to think strategically, execute precisely, and deliver premium outcomes to help them grow.

We are ambitious in our goals and steadfast in the belief that clients deserve our very best. To achieve our highest aspiration, we invest in world-class, team-oriented individuals who are smart, driven, and principled – those who are eager to be part of something bigger than themselves. When you join Harris Williams, you are welcomed into a collegial environment where every individual can make an impact in a powerful and significant way. We invite you to learn more about careers at Harris Williams. 

Role

Harris Williams is looking to hire an Analyst to support the firm’s capital markets initiatives in the Cleveland, Ohio office. The Analyst will work closely with a Managing Director and Vice President, along with other industry and product groups across the firm, to support the execution of M&A and capital raise engagements and deepen the firm’s relationships within the debt capital markets community.

The Analyst will have the following responsibilities:

• Work with senior bankers across Harris Williams on capital markets transactions, including leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, refinancings, and add-on M&A financings.
• Manage multiple projects and transactions simultaneously in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with significant exposure to senior bankers and clients.
• Coordinate with industry teams to provide leverage guidance and debt market insights for sell-side and buy-side M&A opportunities.
• Curate transaction marketing materials and financial models for potential and existing clients.
• Build lender lists for new opportunities utilizing comparable transaction data, market insights, and current sentiment.
• Manage deal process timelines, outreach tracking, and diligence request lists for live engagements.
• Communicate with deal team members and clients, including corporate executives, private equity investors, bank and private credit partners.
• Monitor leveraged finance market trends and build compelling materials that summarize them.
• Support relationship management with the most active lenders across the market and Harris Williams’ transactions.
• Actively participate in client and lender calls, meetings, and events.

Qualified candidates will possess:

• Preference for existing experience within leveraged finance, investment banking, private credit, debt advisory, or capital markets.
• An eagerness to learn about a broad array of transaction types, industries, and financing structures.
• Strong organization skills, managing multiple deadlines and priorities with a high degree of ownership and attention to detail.
• The ability to work closely with a small team of internal senior professionals and develop relationships with peers.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

What Makes a Harris Williams Analyst

Our most successful analysts…

• Approach all tasks with humility, collegiality and enthusiasm together with teammates
  • View challenging tasks as opportunities for growth
  • Share ideas and credit among peers and teammates
  • Learn from mentors
• Are curious self-starters
  • Exhaust available resources before asking senior deal team members for guidance
  • Ask questions and offer creative suggestions as you grow into the role
• Are responsive
  • This is an “on-call”, in-office role
  • Answer emails and calls quickly
  • Clarify deadlines as needed
  • Find moments of levity even when working long hours
  • Stay aligned with your team on active workstreams and upcoming tasks
• Take pride in your work product
  • Quality check your work and the work of your teammates to ensure accuracy before handing up the chain
  • Seek feedback from your teammates/peers during and after key deliverable completion
  • Ask “What’s next?” and work ahead instead of waiting for direction from your team
• Articulate thoughts and ideas to your teammates on day 1, both verbally and in writing
  • As you gain confidence through experience, speak up during internal (Harris Williams deal team/colleagues) and external (client/C-suite facing) discussions, as directed by your deal team

Other Requirements

• Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.
• Submit application on Harris Williams website: www.harriswilliams.com/careers.

Please reach out to Kelsey Seery ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

Disclaimer: Harris Williams will not accept unsolicited resumes from contingency recruiters. Any such resumes received will not be considered as legitimate submissions, and Harris Williams will not pay for the placement of a candidate resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Furthermore, Harris Williams strictly forbids any contingency recruiter from representing the firm in the market without prior consent.  

Qualifications

Successful candidates must demonstrate appropriate knowledge, skills, and abilities for a role. Listed below are skills, competencies, work experience, education, and required certifications/licensures needed to be successful in this position.

Competencies

Accuracy and Attention to Detail, Business Acumen, Creativity, Customer Experience Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Effective Communications, Leadership, Managing Multiple Priorities, Taking Ownership, Teamwork

Work Experience

Roles at this level are filled by recent university / college graduates with little or no professional experience, but possessing relevant skills. Includes individuals joining the organization through a Corporate development/ training program. In lieu of a degree, a comparable combination of education, job specific certification(s), and experience (including military service) may be considered.

Education

Bachelors

Certifications

No Required Certification(s)

Licenses

No Required License(s)

Pay Transparency

Base Salary: $110,000.00 – $125,000.00Salaries may vary based on geographic location, market data and on individual skills, experience, and education. This role is incentive eligible with the payment based upon company, business and/or individual performance.

Application Window

Generally, this opening is expected to be posted for two business days from 08/13/2026, although it may be longer with business discretion.

Benefits

PNC offers a comprehensive range of benefits to help meet your needs now and in the future. Depending on your eligibility, options for full-time employees include: medical/prescription drug coverage (with a Health Savings Account feature), dental and vision options; employee and spouse/child life insurance; short and long-term disability protection; 401(k) with PNC match, pension and stock purchase plans; dependent care reimbursement account; back-up child/elder care; adoption, surrogacy, and doula reimbursement; educational assistance, including select programs fully paid; a robust wellness program with financial incentives.In addition, PNC generally provides the following paid time off, depending on your eligibility: maternity and/or parental leave; up to 11 paid holidays each year; 9 occasional absence days each year, unless otherwise required by law; between 15 to 25 vacation days each year, depending on career level; and years of service.

To learn more about these and other programs, including benefits for full time and part-time employees, visit pncthrive.com.

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At PNC we foster an inclusive and accessible workplace.  We provide reasonable accommodations to employment applicants and qualified individuals with a disability who need an accommodation to perform the essential functions of their positions.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

PNC provides equal employment opportunity to qualified persons regardless of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other categories protected by law.

This position is subject to the requirements of Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDIA) and, for any registered role, the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 (SAFE Act) and/or the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which prohibit the hiring of individuals with certain criminal history.

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