Vacancy: Private Equity Associate
Overall
Responsibility: The
Associate primary responsibility will be deal sourcing across specific target
sectors for our client who will include potential investments, acquisitions,
analysis of potential exit opportunities, and the monitoring and management of
current portfolio companies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible
for identifying and developing investment opportunities across the private
equity line.
- Participate
in all aspects of the transaction process including deal sourcing,
industry research, financial modelling and valuation, preparing investment
memoranda, due diligence and ongoing monitoring of portfolio companies.
- Leading
and supervising the evaluation, valuation, pricing and negotiation of
investment opportunities including the term sheet, due diligence
investigations and transaction documents for investments for each
investment under the supervision of the Head Private Equity, Real Estate.
- Support
Deal Partners in conducting financial and operational due diligence on
potential investments, including: sector reviews, macroeconomic and
political risk analysis and capable of thorough desktop research using all
relevant third party sources.
- Conduct
financial modelling and analysis in MS Excel, including: design models;
identify key drivers and build in sensitivities as appropriate; strong
understanding of different valuation methodologies; and ability to
identify relative defects and effectiveness of each valuation tool.
- Prepare
presentations and information memos in MS Word and PowerPoint for a
variety of purposes and end-users including Investment Committee and
portfolio companies.
- Monitor
and analyze portfolio company operations, track KPIs, conduct top-down
industry research and develop suggestions to improve company competitive
strategy or operations.
- Support
the deal team in negotiating term sheets, key commercial points and legal
documentation.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s
Degree in related field, with a minimum of an Upper Second or equivalent.
- Candidate
required to be a candidate in the CFA program with a strong accounting and
financial background.
- Strong
interest in and aptitude for finance – reviewing company financial
statements.
- Excellent
academic performance.
Experience:
- Minimum
4 years industry-related experience in private equity, investment banking,
corporate finance, advisory, business development and/or consulting.
- Preference
will be given to those candidates with international and/or pan-African
deal-sourcing experience.
- Significant
exposure to mergers & acquisitions and capital raisings.
- Previous
exposure to transaction structuring, funding and execution in the
financials, education and technology sectors
- Experience
conducting company/industry analysis for investments.
How to Apply
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