Senior Associate, Pan-European Consumer focused Private Equity, Brussels, Belgium

PER; Belgique; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

PER is seeking a Senior Associate to join its Pan-European Consumer-focused Private Equity team in Brussels. The role involves origination support, financial analysis, due diligence, and portfolio value creation across FMCG, health, and digital retail sectors.

Fluency in English is required; other European languages are advantageous. Ideal candidates have 2–5 years in investment banking, consulting, or private equity, with strong modelling and a genuine interest in consumer brands.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in investment banking, consulting, or private equity.
• Strong financial modelling and valuation skills.
• Genuine interest in consumer brands and FMCG sectors.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with high attention to detail.
• Self-starter mentality, comfortable operating with autonomy in a lean team.

Aufgaben

• Support origination efforts, including market mapping and outreach to founders and intermediaries.
• Conduct financial analysis, valuation, and modelling for prospective investments.
• Perform commercial, market and competitive due diligence on target companies.
• Prepare investment memos and presentation materials for internal investment committee review.
• Support portfolio companies with ad hoc strategic, financial or operational requests.
• Track portfolio company performance and assist with periodic reporting.
• Attend management meetings and contribute to deal team discussions.
• Build and maintain relationships with founders, co-investors, bankers and advisors.
• Monitor sector trends across FMCG, health, consumer technology and lifestyle to inform deal sourcing.

Kenntnisse

Financial modelling

Valuation

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Self-start

English fluency

Jobbeschreibung

Reference: 15670
Senior Associate, Pan-European Consumer focused Private Equity, Brussels, Belgium
A leading family-backed investment firm is looking for a senior associate to join its investment team. The firm partners with founders building category-defining consumer brands, deploying long-term, patient capital across multiple continents. This is an opportunity to work closely with senior investors on new deals (origination and execution), as well as support value creation projects in portfolio companies.

Senior Associate, Pan-European Consumer focused Private Equity, Brussels, Belgium

Private Equity

2 - 5 years

About our client
Our client is an international, family-backed evergreen investment company that partners with visionary entrepreneurs driving consumer revolutions and building category-defining brands.With over €2bn in AUM and offices globally, the firm focuses on growth-stage companies in FMCG, healthcare, and digital retail.The fund uses patient, permanent capital to build businesses for the long-term, investing across three core strategies: Growth, Platform, and Venture. What the job involves

• Support origination efforts, including market mapping, thesis development and outreach to founders and intermediaries
• Conduct financial analysis, valuation, and modelling for prospective investments
• Perform commercial, market and competitive due diligence on target companies
• Prepare investment memos and presentation materials for internal investment committee review
• Support portfolio companies with ad hoc strategic, financial or operational requests
• Track portfolio company performance and assist with periodic reporting
• Attend management meetings and contribute to deal team discussions
• Build and maintain relationships with founders, co-investors, bankers and advisors
• Monitor sector trends across FMCG, health, consumer technology and lifestyle to inform deal sourcing

Who we are looking for

• Current experience in investment banking, consulting, or private equity
• Strong financial modelling and valuation skills, with comfort navigating complex capital structures
• Genuine interest in consumer brands and the FMCG, health, and lifestyle sectors
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with high attention to detail
• Self-starter mentality, comfortable operating with autonomy in a lean team environment
• Fluency in English required; additional European languages are an advantage