Private Equity Associate

Gillespie And Partners Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job description

Our client is looking to add an Associate to their Alternatives Private Markets team which manages circa $10bn of capital invested across various Private Markets funds. It is one of the largest private market fund investors outside of the US.

Responsibilities include;

• Assist in the monitoring of the existing portfolio of investments, which includes having calls with managers and assisting in the writing of investment monitoring reports
• To assist in the diligence of investment opportunities across a variety of different private market funds, ranging from buyout funds, growth capital funds, infrastructure funds, real estate funds and private credit funds
• To assist the team in the day to day activities of running a large fund investment program me, including maintaining origination databases, workflow databases and other tasks
• Responding to inbound requests from clients and assisting with their reporting and understanding of existing investments
• Helping the team manage its various governance forums – team investment and oversight committees
• Maintaining and updating key investment databases
• Screening primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities for the team
• Investments will be made via the discretionary institutional capital of Alternatives team or via the groups Private Bank feeder programme
• Reviewing such opportunities to assess the overall risk/reward profile of the opportunity - upside potential versus the risk of loss of capital
• Producing a rapid evaluation based on the above and presenting the overall investment thesis to the Alternatives Investment Committee

Experience sought;

• 1-2 years of financial industry experience
• Strong commercial acumen resulting in sound risk/reward judgments;
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to convince without hard-selling;
• Excellent project management and organizational skills;
• Strong report writing skills
• Must have good written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work accurately and calmly under time pressure;
• Ability to work with private markets team to deliver investment-related projects
• We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse environment