Senior Associate

The individual will play a key role in supporting the Portfolio Monitoring team of a Private Equity client around financial analysis. The professional will be actively working as an extended team member for the client and will assist them with portfolio monitoring and investor reporting services.

This opportunity is ideal for private equity / investment banking professionals interested in working with leading global private equity funds and asset management companies. The role provides good exposure to various aspects of the private equity and valuations industry.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze PE Funds performance by going through fund literature such as quarterly/financial reports
• Capturing fund valuation data such as investment cost, realized / unrealized value, gross / net multiple, gross / net IRR and financial KPIs such as revenue, EBITDA, net debt etc.
• Tracking the performance of operational KPIs and operational updates on quarterly basis
• Creating / updating fund track-record and reconciling the data using cash flow notices
• Working around templates, including updating on quarterly basis and making desired changes
• Calculating fund multiples and IRRs using cash flows and performing various fund analytics such as attribution and value creation analysis
• Manage the client library task such as portfolio company details, fund financial statements, and capital notices
• Reconciling the portfolio level operational data including geographical presence, headquarter and portfolio leverage
• Ensure maintenance of all output reports and dashboards so that the submitted data flows through seamlessly
• Modify and maintain all templates and reports as per requirement
• Setting up access for client users and sending periodical templates to portfolio companies to collect the monthly / quarterly data

Key Competencies

• Experience in and around
• Private equity/ Valuations / Financial Statement Analysis
• Basic knowledge and understanding of Private Equity, Fund of Funds and Financial Services Industry (FSI) trends
• MBA in Finance, Economics or Business management / CFA
• Strong analytical, communication (written/verbal) and client engaging skills
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Ability to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
• Ability to develop and maintain lasting relationships with senior professionals; good interpersonal skills; goal-oriented
• Ability to be a team player and contribute to the development of the team
• Strong work ethics, commitment to excel and proven ability to work with minimum supervision
• Previous experience in a similar role will be an added advantage