Investment Banking

Evaluate a prospective acquisition target for your client, Big Box Retail, with Citi’s Investment Banking team

Welcome to our job simulation! We are so excited to have you here.

Citi is a leading global investment bank offering a wide variety of roles across its different divisions. During this program, you will have the opportunity to experience life on two different desks on the trading floor and complete tasks that mimic the work that our sales and trading teams do each day. 

In this program, you’ll learn to synthesize market news, formulate a market view and develop trade ideas to profit from this view as well as hedge risk. We hope this program serves as a valuable resource for you to gain new skills while strengthening your resume as you explore career options and a potential career here at Citi!

This Job Simulation is not an employment relationship with Citi. It is Forage’s policy and recommendation that you do not list this job simulation as employment work experience or an internship. You are welcome to consider adding your completion as an extracurricular activity, as outlined in Forage’s CV Policy reference guide. You will receive a certificate at the end of this experience. To receive your certificate, you must confirm that you have reviewed and consented to the Forage CV Policy reference Guide.

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

• M&A Target Company Profile
  Identify a public corporation to be acquired and build out a company profile page
  • PowerPoint
  • Enterprise Valuation
  • Company Analysis
• Financial Modeling Basics
  Project a company’s financials by building a simple financial model
  • Excel
  • Financial Modeling
  • Forecasting
• Spreading Comps
  Build a trading comparable model to depict where the target company’s valuation is positioned relative to its peers
  • Valuation Methods
  • Comparative Analysis
• Synthesize Key Findings
  Analyze the valuation information to give a summary of the main ideas
  • Critical Thinking
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Information Synthesis
• Finish Line