What does an Investment Banker Do?

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What do an Investment Banker do each day?

What does the day-to-day routine look like for a typical Banker?

The short story is that your seniority in the hierarchy largely determines your daily routine.

Showing the roles and responsibilities for Senior, Mid-Level, and Junior Investment Bankers
There are three major buckets within the Investment Banking hierarchy:

  • Senior Bankers – Managing Directors (‘MDs’) and Senior Vice Presidents (‘SVPs’) build and foster client relationships.
  • Mid-Level Bankers – Vice Presidents (‘VPs’) lead deal execution.
  • Junior Bankers – create supporting materials and analyses used to ‘Pitch’ clients for new business and for ‘Live Deal’ execution.
As you can see above, what Investment Banker


s do in each role is slightly different.

In the coming sections, we’ll dig deeper into the roles and responsibilities at each level.

A ‘Typical’ Investment Banking Career Path




One of the most common questions at this point is, “What is the ‘typical’ Investment Banking career path?”

While there isn’t a typical path, there are two primary entry points for a job in investment banking: Pre-MBA and Post-MBA.

1. Analyst
2. Associate 
3. Vice President 
4. Senior Vice President 
5. Managing Director 


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