Principle Investing Analyst Position recruitment

Client Overview:

Our client is one of the largest institutional investor funds in the world with a portfolio extending in to the hundreds of billions of dollars. The client has a strong global presence and has built a reputation as a successful and innovative investor across Public and Private markets and making strong returns to it’s own clients. The group can boast some very skilled investment professionals who have built long careers with the fund and who are market leaders in their fields.

We are working with the client’s London based Private Investments team to build their Principal Investing platform. The team focusses on using strong relationships in the market to source deals in which they co-sponsor on an equal governance basis in the large to mid-cap space

Reason to hire:

The team is looking to expand its business into Europe and foresee a significant pick-up in activity and therefore are looking to add 2 Analysts to the team

The Role:

This is a position for someone with 1-2years of Investment Banking experience. The advantage of this team is they have a steady stream of fully baked ideas from which they can pick and choose giving the members of the team a higher volume of real investments they can take a view on and get involved in.  

• It is differentiated from work at other Private Equity funds as there is no sourcing

• The work really starts when they receive a call from a Private Equity fund with a deal proposal. They then do the valuation from Outside in a couple of days – a week.

You would therefore be involved in:

• Financial modelling

• Data room review

• Interfacing with advisors

• Preparation of Question lists

• Review of Commercial stream.

• Document preparation

• Once the deal has closed the analyst regularly monitor the portfolio from a financial point of view

• The analyst can also sit within the company to provide support where necessary.

• This will also involve meeting and working with clients from day 1.

Requirements

• X2 Analyst (1-2years of experience)

• Top Tier Investment Banking Experience

• Strong strategic, problem solving abilities

• Analytical mind; good with numbers and working knowledge of Excel

• ‘Can Do’ attitude, eager to learn.Corporate personality that would be fine to meet with clients from day one.