Senior Analyst/ Junior Associate recruitment

Our Client

Our client is an instantly recognisable leading Mid Cap Private Equity fund in Europe. The firm have offices across the region and have a particular focus on traditional buyout activity. Sectors targeted for investment are broad and diverse, ranging from Healthcare and Consumer and Retail through to Industrials. The fund takes majority positions within the portfolio companies it works with and typical exit is between three and five years.

The fund as a whole has a strong track record with repeated Investment from their backers across the markets. They are currently mid-way through investing their current fund with plans to start fund raising for their next fund in the coming few years. This role is a great opportunity to join a growing team with the prospect after a few months to be part of the next round of fund raising.

The Role

The London arm of the business is currently looking to hire a top ranked Analyst 2009 to join to their Investment team to work across the full range of an Investment cycle.

You would be working across every facet of the investment and advisory life cycle given the small nature of the team. Therefore this role will deliver a very high level of responsibility and client facing time from day one. You will be meeting and advising portfolio companies from an early stage and each day will bring quite different challenges and roles. Therefore you will need to be very smart, dynamic and have an ability to advise both your peers and clients of your thoughts and opinions in a clear and concise manner.

Requirements:

• 2009 starter in a London based Bulge Bracket Investment Bank or Management Consultancy

• University degree from a leading institution with a 2:1 or equivalent result.

• A second European language skill is not a strong preference but a nice to have.

• Extensive DCF/ valuation modelling Experience

The team are looking to hire an Analyst as soon as possible to enable the successful candidate chance to learn the markets ahead of fund raising. The opportunity is for a full time contract with no expectations to undertake an MBA at any point. The interview rounds will be a standard 3-4 stages with modelling tests included.