Private Equity Associate

Job Description

Our client is looking to add an Associate to their Alternatives Private Markets team which manages circa $10bn of capital invested across various Private Markets funds. It is one of the largest private market fund investors outside of the US.

Responsibilities include;

  • Assist in the monitoring of the existing portfolio of investments, which includes having calls with managers and assisting in the writing of investment monitoring reports 
  • To assist in the diligence of investment opportunities across a variety of different private market funds, ranging from buyout funds, growth capital funds, infrastructure funds, real estate funds and private credit funds
  • To assist the team in the day to day activities of running a large fund investment program me, including maintaining origination databases, workflow databases and other tasks
  • Responding to inbound requests from clients and assisting with their reporting and understanding of existing investments
  • Helping the team manage its various governance forums – team investment and oversight committees 
  • Maintaining and updating key investment databases 
  • Screening primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities for the team
  • Investments will be made via the discretionary institutional capital of Alternatives team or via the groups Private Bank feeder programme
  • Reviewing such opportunities to assess the overall risk/reward profile of the opportunity - upside potential versus the risk of loss of capital
  • Producing a rapid evaluation based on the above and presenting the overall investment thesis to the Alternatives Investment Committee

Experience sought;

  • 1-2 years of financial industry experience
  • Strong commercial acumen resulting in sound risk/reward judgments;
  • Strong presentation skills with the ability to convince without hard-selling;
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills;
  • Strong report writing skills 
  • Must have good written and verbal communication skills 
  • Ability to work accurately and calmly under time pressure;
  • Ability to work with private markets team to deliver investment-related projects 
  • Strong Excel modelling skills
  • We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse environment