About this role
About Aptura
Aptura is a research partner to the frontier AI labs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind. We capture how experienced professionals actually reason, so the models can learn from it.
The role:
Three months of banking work, done properly, without the pitch cycle, the staffer, or the live client. Half of it is building. The other half is judging what's already been built, yours and other people's, and being able to say precisely why it holds or why it doesn't.
Build DCFs, trading comps, precedent transactions and LBOs from scratch, to live-mandate standard, with full supporting assumptions
Produce valuations, models and decks across M&A, financial advisory and capital markets
Review other contributors' work the way an associate reviews an analyst's: check the logic, find the broken link, send it back with the reason
Judge AI-generated analysis on the same terms, and say when it's wrong however polished it looks
Work with our research team to turn how bankers actually think into something a model can learn
This role will be a great fit if you
Have 2+ years in investment banking at a bulge bracket or elite boutique (Goldman, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, BofA, Citi, Barclays, UBS, DB, Evercore, Moelis, Centerview, Lazard, Jefferies)
Know modelling, valuation and deal mechanics cold
Hold a high bar and don't move it when the work is nearly good enough
Can explain why a piece of reasoning is right or wrong, not just that it is
Are curious about AI. No technical background needed
Logistics
Location: Liverpool Street or Remote
Start date: Immediate
Referral bonus: For any successful referral hired into this role