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Investment Banking Analyst, Industrial

Baird
Baird Salary
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/11/2026
High-profile deals, major growth, the right people behind you. Grow far at Baird.

Baird offers a different kind of start to a career in investment banking, built on high-performing teams and a culture that supports your growth. Here, you’ll build skills through real transactions, close collaboration with peers and mentors, and a culture focused on shared success.

Our global team ranks as one of the leading Industrial M&A advisors among all investment banks. With significant resources committed in the United States and Europe, our Industrial team’s global investment banking and financial sponsor coverage platform provides an extensive network of relationships among active Industrial strategic buyers and investors around the world. Baird’s Global Industrial platform includes over 100 investment bankers, who have completed over 280 M&A and financing transactions since 2020.

We are looking for an experienced Investment Banking Analyst to join our team in Milwaukee, WI or Chicago, IL.

What You’ll Do

Learn by doing and be trusted with meaningful work from the jump

  • Provide analytical support across mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, and other financial advisory services
  • Work with your team to prepare company valuations, build financial models, and create marketing materials
  • Contribute to business development efforts through research, analysis, and preparation for client meetings and pitches
  • Work side-by-side with both junior and senior investment bankers, gaining hands-on experience across every stage of a deal

What You’ll Gain

The kind of environment that turns early talent into lasting careers

  • Contribute to every stage of a transaction, from conducting research to facilitating due diligence
  • Gain insight into how teams collaborate across geographies, sectors, and specialties to support client objectives
  • Take on meaningful responsibility and contribute to conversations with investor and corporate management clients around the world
  • Grow in a culture built on respect and shared values, where ambition and collaboration go hand-in-hand and hard work is recognized through opportunity

What It Takes

We’re looking for people who want to go far, and go together

  • A candidate energized by learning, teamwork, and real responsibility
  • 12–24 months of full-time work experience (investment banking preferred)
  • A proven academic record and a passion for finance (a finance degree is helpful, but not required)
  • Drive, resilience, and a strong work ethic
  • Ability to work independently and thrive in a collaborative setting
  • Strong mathematical, writing, and verbal skills; relevant software proficiency
  • SIE and Series 79 licensing preferred (or the ability to obtain them quickly)

Compensation And Benefits

  • $110,000 - $125,000 annual salary with bonus potential
  • Compensation and bonus are commensurate with experience, performance and/or GIB profitability
  • In addition to a strong culture that is focused on health and well-being, our organization offers competitive total compensation packages and comprehensive benefits including: protected Friday night and Saturdays, periodic sabbaticals during career, shareholder opportunities, mandatory paid time off (PTO) and robust 401k match and profit-sharing contribution

Baird is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status.

Salary : $110,000 - $125,000

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