Senior Associate - Valuation (Private Equity)

About the Role

The individual will play a key role in supporting the Portfolio Monitoring and Valuations team of a Private Equity client around financial analysis, benchmarking, and valuations. The professional will be closely working as an extended team member for the client and will assist them on portfolio monitoring, valuations 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.

The individual will play a key role in supporting the Portfolio Monitoring and Valuations team of a Private Equity client around financial analysis, benchmarking, and valuations.

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

Can lead the team of 2-3 analyst and associates

Creating / updating fund track record and reconciling the data using cash flow notices

Working around valuation 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

Support the Client's quarterly valuation process and making any edits required to the valuations template on iLevel

Setting up access for client users and sending periodical templates to portfolio companies to collect the monthly / quarterly data

Updating bespoke LP templates using iLevel. Creating excel based templates from scratch to fetch data from iLevel using iGets

Qualifications

MBA in Finance, Economics or Business management / CFA

Required Skills

Experience in and around - Private equity / Valuations / Financial Statement Analysis

Creation and maintenance of iLevel Templates and Portal

Basic knowledge and understanding of Private Equity, Fund of Funds and Financial Services Industry (FSI) trends

Strong understanding of various methods of valuations, including DCF and Relative valuation

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

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are committed to diversity and inclusivity in our hiring practices.