Senior Associate, Private Equity

OMERS; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading Canadian pension plan as a Senior Associate on the Private Equity team. Drive investment evaluations and portfolio management while working in a collaborative environment that celebrates diversity and fosters personal growth. With a focus on long-term success, you'll play a crucial role in building value for our members.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in investment banking, consulting, or private equity.
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and execute new investment opportunities across various industries.
• Manage existing portfolio companies and assess performance.
• Prepare internal presentations and conduct financial reporting.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Financial Modelling

Interpersonal Skills

Communication Skills

Job description

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Join a global workplace where employees thrive. One that embraces diversity of thought, expertise and experience. A place where you can personalize your employee journey to be — and deliver — your best.

We are a purpose-driven, dynamic and sustainable pension plan. An industry leading global investor with teams in Toronto to London, New York, Singapore, Sydney and other major cities across North America and Europe. We embody the values of our 600,000+ members, placing their best interests at the heart of everything we do.

Join us to accelerate your growth & development, prioritize wellness, build connections, and support the communities where we live and work.

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OMERS Private Equity (“OPE”) seeks to use its significant and differentiated capital base to partner with management teams of industry-leading businesses. We are direct investors with a long-term view of success, $27.5B AUM and a mandate to invest $3B each year in an evergreen fund structure. OPE is the private equity investment arm of OMERS, one of Canada’s largest pension plans with $124.2 billion of net assets under management across all of their investment classes including private equity, growth equity, venture capital, public markets, infrastructure and real estate. For more information, please visit www.omersprivateequity.com.

Our dynamic investment team draws from backgrounds in private equity, investment banking and consulting. With an excellent investment track record and years of private equity experience, we work in partnership with our companies to build long-term value. OPE prides itself on its culture and we strive to identify candidates who are well suited to our unique, team-based environment.

As a Senior Associate on the Private Equity team you will be involved in identifying, evaluating, acquiring and actively managing direct, control private equity investments.

As a member of this team, you will be responsible for:

Evaluating And Executing Of New Investment Opportunities

• Researching, analyzing and evaluating new investment opportunities through industry research, competitor assessments, financial statement analysis and financial modeling
• Developing financial models depicting a company’s historical and projected financial results
• Develop and maintain broader reaching relationships within banking, lending, and PE in order to sourced new deals or find new investment themes of interest
• Preparing commercial and operational due diligence
• Assessing financial returns and risks for new investment opportunities
• Preparing internal investment presentations
• Managing existing portfolio companies:
• Evaluating operating and financial performance
• Working alongside management to research and execute tuck-in acquisitions
• Supporting capital structure management, including debt refinancing, tax planning and capital budgeting
• Conducting financial reporting to support decision making
• Ad hoc operating projects alongside management
  
  

To Succeed In This Role, You Have

• 4+ years of work experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity or a relevant field
• Strong analytical and financial modelling skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities and timelines
• Excellent interpersonal skills and both written & verbal communication skills
• Be intellectually curious and have a long investment horizon
• Demonstrate attention to detail and strong analytical skills
• Commitment to stay current on a variety of topics related to the investment themes being explored
• Embrace collaborative sharing of knowledge within a team environment
• Driven to achieving results and continuously striving to deliver the highest performance through creative thinking
  
  

As one of Canada’s largest defined benefit pension plans, our people-first culture is at its best when our workforce reflects the communities where we live and work — and the members we proudly serve.

From hire to retire, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment and selection process that extends all the way through your employee experience. This sense of belonging and connection is cultivated up, down and across our global organization thanks to our vast network of Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship, our Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

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