About the role#
The Analyst Intern position serves as the entry point into the investment banking career path at Northland. You will work on live deal teams alongside Analysts, Associates, and senior bankers. This role requires the ability to perform under pressure, meet tight deadlines, and produce accurate work on short notice. Exceptional performance during this internship is the primary pathway to a full-time Analyst offer.
What you'll do#
- Build and update comparable company, precedent transaction, capitalization, and dilution analyses.
- Prepare pitch books, management presentations, and transaction materials.
- Conduct company, industry, and market research.
- Support due diligence and transaction tracking.
- Assist on public equity offerings, private placements, PIPEs, convertible securities transactions, and M&A advisory engagements.
What you'll need#
- Recent graduate of a bachelor's or master's program, or a student graduating by December 2026.
- Strong academic record, ideally from a top-tier university with a rigorous quantitative curriculum, and a minimum 3.5 cumulative GPA.
- Degree preference in finance, accounting, engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science, or physics.
- Prior internship or relevant experience in investment banking, private equity, equity research, credit, transaction advisory, or valuation.
- Financial modeling proficiency, including the ability to independently build a three-statement model, trading comparables, precedent transactions, and a DCF.
- Advanced Excel proficiency and comfort working with large data sets. Experience with Python or SQL is a plus.
- Strong command of accounting, valuation methodologies, and financial statement analysis.
- Working understanding of capital structure, including equity and debt instruments, leverage, dilution, and liquidity.
- Ability to obtain SIE, Series 7, 79, and 63 licenses within 180 days of start.
- Must possess unrestricted U.S. work authorization and not require future sponsorship.
Location & details#
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota.
- Modality: On-site.
- Employment Type: Full-time.
- Term: Rolling.
About Northland Securities, Inc.
Northland Securities is a brokerage firm founded in 2002. Headquartered in Minneapolis, the company maintains branch offices across several states including Colorado, Iowa, Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin. It provides financial services such as wealth management, public finance, and equity research to corporate, government, and non-profit clients. The firm employs between 51 and 200 people.
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