No deadline given. It closes when the places fill, which on a sought-after London desk is often weeks after it opens. Apply as if it closes tomorrow.
Three tokens: 'Experienced' is the qualifier, 'Analysts' the rank, 'Investment Banking' the division. FT Partners says it is seeking experienced Investment Banking Analysts in London, and the stated requirement is 1-2 years of full-time investment banking experience in M&A sell-side advisory. Source
Analysts here are involved in all aspects of originating and executing live transactions: financial modelling and analysis, company valuation, corporate and industry research, strategic analysis and recommendation, identifying business development opportunities, due diligence, preparing client presentation materials, and identifying corporate and financial-sponsor buyers and investors. The posting says analysts assume significant responsibility working closely with senior bankers, oversee and execute day-to-day deal activities, and take an active role in the recruiting, training and development of analysts. Source
Say the plain thing: this is a lateral hire, not a student seat. 'Experienced' plus a hard 1-2 years of sell-side M&A means the firm is buying someone another bank already trained, who is useful in week one. The row is tagged off-cycle, but an off-cycle internship and an experienced-analyst backfill are completely different things. If you are still at university, or graduating without banking experience, you cannot apply to this one - what it tells you is that the London office is hiring, which is worth knowing when the entry-level seats come round.
No team is named, and at FT Partners that is not evasion: the firm covers one sector and nothing else. Every transaction it lists on this posting is fintech - Deribit's $4.3bn sale to Coinbase, Divvy to Bill.com, AvidXchange to TPG and Corpay, GreenSky to Goldman Sachs, Finicity to Mastercard, Revolut's financing at a $33bn valuation. Whichever internal desk you nominally sit on, the deal flow is financial technology, so prepare on that sector rather than trying to guess a coverage group.
12 people have held London roles in FT Partners' Fintech M&A Advisory unit since 2018. That is a small office, which is consistent with what the posting asks for: an analyst who runs day-to-day deal activity directly with senior bankers rather than sitting under layers of them.
FT Partners calls itself one of the most successful boutique investment banks on Wall Street: headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and London, 200+ professionals globally, offering M&A advisory, private capital raising and capital markets advisory, all of it in financial technology. Senior bankers are named as formerly of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Evercore, Citi, HSBC and Barclays. Source
The transaction list tells you what the job actually is. Multi-billion-dollar sales sit next to $150m growth financings, which means an analyst here runs full sell-side M&A processes and private capital raises for venture-backed companies in the same week. That is a wider product range than the equivalent seat in a bulge-bracket coverage group, and it is the thing to talk about at interview: you want the private-capital work as well as the M&A, not just a fintech logo.
The posting went up on 26 August 2026, carries no deadline, and is written in the plural. Read that as a standing requisition rather than one named seat - they take the right person when the right person appears. If you fit the profile, apply now; there is nothing gained by waiting and no cut-off to wait for.
A boutique hiring a trained analyst in the autumn is either replacing someone who left for a fund or a bigger platform, or covering a pipeline it cannot staff. Either way these processes move faster than a graduate scheme and the screen is your deal sheet, not your degree: be ready to talk through a live process you worked on, what you built, and what the outcome was.
The gates as stated: 1-2 years of full-time investment banking experience in M&A sell-side advisory; UK work authorisation, with the firm saying it does not sponsor applicants for work visas; and a minimum 2:1. The application form repeats the visa point bluntly - no visas of any type are sponsored, student visas included, and any sponsorship requirement at all ends the candidacy. Source
The application itself requires a CV and a cover letter, both mandatory, plus your LinkedIn profile and class level, with graduate school transcripts optional. It asks directly whether you have investment banking experience and asks you to confirm your UK right to work. Source
The visa line is the one to read twice. It rules out anyone on a Student or Graduate Route visa, which is a large share of international juniors in London, and the wording leaves no room for a strong CV to buy an exception. If that is you, this application is a dead end - spend the time on a firm that sponsors, and check that before anything else.
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