27 too old as analyst I?
I have an offer at a Canadian bank covering mining & energy as analyst I. I'm 27 now, having graduated 3 years ago. I spent about 2 years working in debt mobilisation for a European bank in project finance debt. I left temporarily to recover from a surgery, during this time I've been recruiting for FO positions. Now I have an IB offer on hand and my job is still there to return to. My current position is great but it does get boring. We're increasingly cut off from any hard client contributions to any deal or project and it's frustrating. But it's also very easy. The majority of fund finance team directors came from this spot. So it still does have a good future outcome.
I'm an old man at 27 so I don't want to get trapped in experimenting stuff. Sitting at the same seats as 22 year olds sounds a little comical in my head. Is it common at all?
I've seen it happen several times, no one cares about the age difference unless you make it an issue, its usually hard to recruit when you're older but you already have an offer in hand so congratulations. Its also more common in Canada to lateral into IB later onto you career.
I'm actually in London:)) just working for a Canadian bank
You’re like the average age for analyst 1 in europe. Old folk all around
Just know what you're getting into in terms of hours
Not an issue in itself tbh. They gave me a case study that i had to finish in 4 hours. My job itself isn't good in terms of hours. most days reach 12 hours with some CFO/treasury/FF approvals requiring IB hours.
It's fine, you won't be the oldest to ever do it. I did kind of the same thing and it was great.
Nah you’ll earn 325k+ at age 29 as associate which firmly puts you in the 99th percentile globally lol
its london, base is like 70k for BBs analyst 1 and 30-60% bonus. post tax, rent you're basically left with 40k haha
Not at all, I know an analyst I who is 29
You're going to age anyways, may as well do it in a seat that you like or one that better sets you up for the life that you want.
My only anecdote here is there's an influencer (IG/TikTok) that left Harvard for a drug problem and finished later than her peers and did MS IBD at ~27 years old. She did Blackrock fixed income first. Maybe message her for a direct perspective? Her name is Emma Gray (@emmawilloughbyg).
Good luck to you. I'd do it if I were you.
Message an influencer when I have a follower list of 32 followers? I think ig will shadowban me the moment i hit send
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