Resume template · Updated October 2026
Investment banking analyst resume template
Short answer
FAANGPath suits an investment banking analyst: a dense, plain, one-page layout in black and grey, close to the format banks expect, with a short skills block before experience. The fictional sample works at a middle-market bank on sell-side deals, builds models and pitch books and runs due diligence. Show deals by type and size, your role, models and tools.
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Why FAANGPath suits an investment banking analyst resume
FAANGPath prints a short summary, labelled skills rows and then experience, in black and grey with tight spacing. Banks expect a dense, conservative one-page resume, and this layout fits a full deal list without any design that looks out of place in finance.
Second choice: Henrietta. Henrietta is equally conservative and puts education right after experience, a fit for experienced analysts moving to associate roles.
What goes in each section, in FAANGPath's order
FAANGPath prints its sections in a fixed order, the same in the PDF and the Word file. Here is that order for this sample, and what to put in each section.
- Professional Summary. Bank type, group (industry or product), years of experience and the deal types you work on.
- Skills. Modelling types, valuation methods, tools and languages.
- Work Experience. Bullets on deals by type, size and status, your role, models built, pitch books, due diligence and buyer outreach.
- Education. Degree with the year; add GPA and honours if strong and recent.
The sample resume as text
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Ethan Caldwell
Investment Banking Analyst, Industrials M&A
Chicago, IL | ethan.caldwell@example.com | (312) 555-0167 | linkedin.com/in/sample-ethan-caldwell
Second-year investment banking analyst in a middle-market industrials group. Work on sell-side M&A and debt raises for private companies and sponsors.
Experience
Investment Banking Analyst, Industrials, Lakefront Capital Advisors, Chicago, IL (07/2023 to Present)
- Worked on five closed transactions with a combined value of about $1.1 billion, including two sell-side sales of industrial distributors.
- Built three-statement, DCF and LBO models used in buyer negotiations and fairness discussions.
- Drafted pitch books and confidential information memoranda for eight client pitches.
- Ran data rooms and tracked about 400 diligence requests on a sell-side process.
- Built buyer lists of about 150 strategic and sponsor buyers and tracked outreach.
Summer Analyst, Lakefront Capital Advisors, Chicago, IL (06/2022 to 08/2022)
- Built comparable company and precedent transaction analyses.
- Prepared industry overview slides for pitches.
- Supported a live sell-side process.
Education
Bachelor of Science, Finance, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (05/2023)
Skills
Three-statement models, DCF, LBO, Comparable company analysis, Precedent transactions, Excel, PowerPoint, Capital IQ, PitchBook, Long-hours reliability
How to make the sample yours
List deals carefully
Deal type, sector, size and status, such as 'sell-side sale of a $250 million industrial distributor (closed)'. Public or anonymised only.
Describe your role
Models, materials and processes you owned. Bankers want to know what you did, not what the team did.
Name the models
Three-statement, DCF, LBO, merger and comparable company analyses.
Show process work
Buyer lists, data rooms, management presentations and diligence requests.
Keep it to one page
Banks expect one page for analysts. Cut older jobs before cutting deals.
Keywords to keep where they are true
Terms this kind of resume is usually searched for. Use the posting's exact wording, and only for work you have done.
- investment banking analyst
- M&A
- sell-side
- buy-side
- financial modelling
- DCF
- LBO
- pitch books
- due diligence
- comparable company analysis
- valuation
- capital raising
Mistakes to avoid
- Confidential client names.
- Deal values that are not public or approved.
- Two pages for an analyst role.
- Claiming the team's deal record as yours.
How the sample PDF reads in text extractors
We exported this sample with Resumity's PDF exporter in Chrome on 2026-10-29 and read the file back with three open-source text extractors. This shows whether software that turns a PDF into text can recover it; it is not a test of any commercial applicant tracking system. How we test templates.
| Extractor | Name, email, phone | Headings | Bullets intact |
|---|---|---|---|
| pdf.js 4.10.38 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pdftotext (Xpdf) 4.00 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
| pypdf 6.13.0 | All found | 4 of 4 | 8 of 8 |
Frequently asked questions
What should an investment banking analyst resume focus on?
Deals by type, size and status, your role, the models you built and the materials you made. Bankers read fast, so lead each bullet with the deal or the model and keep it concrete.
Can I list deal values?
Only public values or ones your bank allows. Otherwise use ranges or describe the deal without a number. Never name a client in a deal that has not been announced.
Should I list GPA?
If you graduated recently and your GPA is strong, yes. Many banks still ask for it for analyst roles. Drop it once you have a few years of deal experience.
How do I move from another finance job into banking?
Show modelling, valuation and any transaction work, such as corporate development or transaction advisory. Build a deal list from those roles and network with bankers in the group you want.
Is one page really required?
For analysts, almost always. Bankers expect a dense single page and may read a second page as poor judgment about what matters.
Is this template right for private equity applications?
Yes. Add a short deal list with your role on each and any investment ideas you have worked on.
Will applicant tracking systems read this FAANGPath PDF?
The sample PDF read back with its contact details, all 4 section headings and all 8 bullets intact in three open-source text extractors (pdf.js, pdftotext and pypdf). Commercial systems such as Workday, Greenhouse or Taleo were not tested, and each employer configures its own.
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