STAGE - Strategy & Corporate Finance

VOUS INTÉGRER DANS L'ENTREPRISE

Chez Nexans, notre vision globale est d'électrifier le futur. Depuis plus d'un siècle, Nexans joue un rôle crucial dans l'électrification de la planète. Avec près de 28 000 personnes dans 42 pays, le Groupe participe à la transition vers un nouveau monde de l'électrification : plus sûr, durable, renouvelable, décarboné et accessible à tous. 

Nexans reconnaît les différences qui rendent chaque salarié précieux et unique. La diversité est la clé de la performance et de notre ambition globale de conduire le monde dans la transition énergétique vers une planète durable. Nous le savons par expérience. Toutes les différences sont appréciées et respectées chez Nexans. En conséquence, vous serez un acteur clé d'une organisation multinationale où nous cultivons la culture commune du partage. C'est pourquoi nous encourageons la diversité dans nos recrutements - Apportez la vôtre à Nexans, elle est la bienvenue !

Place : Strategy & Corporate Finance department 

Organization 
• Function : Strategy & Corporate Finance Intern
• Department : Strategy & Finance
• Location : Paris, La Défense
• Hierarchical reporting : Group Strategy Director or Corporate Finance Director

Nexans overview

Nexans is a global leading cable solution provider historically, positioned mainly on the electrification market (Buildings, Utilities, High Voltage projects - 65% of the company’s sales in 2023), and on industry (energy resources, transport) and Telecom markets.
It is currently a member of the CAC Mid 60 stock index. It has an industrial presence in nearly 42 countries, over 28,000 employees and sales of around €7,8 billion a year (2023 - at current metal prices) with an EBITDA of €665M. As a global player in the cable industry, Nexans is behind the scene delivering the innovative services and resilient products that carry thousands of watts of energy and terabytes of data per second around the world. Millions of homes, cities, businesses are powered every day by Nexans’ high quality sustainable cabling solutions. 

As the pace of the world electrification is increasing, Nexans will now focus on one purpose: 
Electrify the Future.

In the wake of its new 2021 equity story, Nexans announced it will reengineer its model to become by 2024 a "pure player" on electrification, by focusing on electricity generation and transmission, distribution and uses, thus creating a global world leading company in this field.
For more details, please find here the Link to 2021 Capital Market Day video presentation 

Context

In this context, Nexans has engaged in rotating its business portfolio towards electrification through targeted and selective organic growth and through both disposal and acquisition of assets, in order for the group to operate at its full potential. 
The strategy and Corporate finance teams are in charge of this transformation and cover the process end to end: strategy definition, portfolio optimization, M&A process (target screening, qualification, due diligence and deal execution, post-merger integration), Financial Modelling.
Nexans is looking to recruit 2 interns to grow our talent pool and reinforce the strategy and Corporate functions. 

Why join Nexans ?

✓ The role will be in close collaboration to the strategy, M&A and Corporate Finance teams, as well as business executives from across the world 
✓ A great opportunity to learn in a dynamic and caring environment
✓ An opportunity to join strategic functions within a leading global industrial group with a France-based decision center 
✓ A fantastic opportunity to be involved in a renewed transformation program
✓ Internships aim at converting to full-time positions within the Strategy and Corporate Finance functions

Areas of responsibilities
This role will involve working in close collaboration to the Strategy, M&A and Corporate Finance teams in order to :

1. Build up research, analyses & associated syntheses at different stages of the group strategy definition or M&A processes, covering a broad range of topics such as : 
- Growth strategy 
- Industrial strategy definition 
- Business units turnaround and optimization
- Market analysis
- M&A target screening, company analysis, business plan & synergies calculation 

2. Be involved along with project management in the definition of the group strategy and its communication :
- Internally: C-level syntheses and action plan follow up material to support decision 
making
- Externally: support in market presentations (e.g. Capital Market Day, Investor Relations, Universal Registration Document)

3. Support in building and maintaining comprehensive financial models to help Management monitoring Group financial performance and engaging with external stakeholders (investors, research analysts, rating agencies, etc.)

Required skills and qualifications :

We are looking for young talented people :

✓ Motivated, self-driven, interested in learning new concepts and ideas
✓ Willingness to working in a fast-paced environment 
✓ Problem solver, good ability to analyze issues, break problems down in a structured way, and draw insights
✓ Impact oriented, has self-drive to identify key issues/root causes and develop solutions 
✓ Strong interpersonal skills combined with strong communication skills: able to influence and convince her/his audience 
✓ Good written and oral communication; can easily convey messages in a concise way 
✓ Excellent synthesis and presentation skills
✓ Pack Office (PowerPoint, Excel) proficiency 
✓ Persuasive and decisive 
✓ Energetic, tenacious 
✓ Collaborative 

Preferred qualifications : 

✓ End-of-course internship 
✓ Fluent English oral and writing skills 
✓ Proven strategy and finance skills, as well as mathematical acumen
✓ Proven presentation skills 
✓ A first experience in strategy consulting or within a group strategy function, investment bank, audit / transaction services is a plus 

UNE CULTURE TOURNEE VERS LA CROISSANCE

Nos salariés partagent les mêmes valeurs : nous sommes des pionniers de la transition énergétique, déterminés à respecter les normes de performance les plus élevées et unis pour atteindre notre objectif ambitieux.

A l'échelle individuelle, notre culture de croissance est fondée sur la confiance et la collaboration. Nous souhaitons vous intégrer comme un membre précieux de notre équipe. Afin de favoriser votre intégration, nous croyons en l'autonomie, tout en encourageant le partage des connaissances au sein de notre organisation.

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