Capital Markets Specialist
What the work is
Creates, reviews and implements strategies to raise capital for clients.
Would you enjoy the work?
These are the main tasks in the official description. Mark how each one sounds to you.
- Provides strategic advice to companies to raise capital through capital market events and debt advisory transactions
- Analyses the value of companies, examines financial models, and reviews financial research
- Negotiates and structures deals for mergers and acquisitions
- Implements and executes strategies and guides clients through initial public offerings, divestments, issuing and selling of securities, and other events
Try it
A simulation and a case study from this kind of work, set in the investment team of a fictional superannuation fund. They are fictional.
The kind of days you could have
Good days
- Your research turns up something the rest of the team had missed
- A committee reads your report and makes a clear, confident decision
- A model you built months ago turns out to predict what actually happened
Hard days
- Two reliable sources disagree and the deadline is tomorrow
- A senior person has fallen in love with an idea your numbers do not support
- Hours alone with spreadsheets, then a meeting where you must defend them
Written by Career Calling as a general guide. Real roles vary by employer and place.
Work a mission
Step into a simulated workplace in this field, with a brief from your manager.
Description and tasks: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0 (opens another site), occupation 212331, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. The skill guide above is our plain English summary.