R HIGHLY NEGOTIABLE PLUS ANNUAL PERFORMANCE BONUS
Our client is a leading asset manager and specialist investment company which manages the full range of interest bearing and developmental investments in an ethical and sustainable way. The company is dedicated to the development and empowerment of South Africa and its people, with many of their investment offerings geared towards a meaningful difference to their world.
They now seek an associate to join their private equity & venture capital team.
The Private Equity & Venture Capital team invests across five verticals: Private Real Estate, Infrastructure, Venture Capital, Mid-Market Private Equity, and Agriculture. They back businesses and assets that deliver strong risk-adjusted returns alongside genuine developmental impact, in line with the mandate their investors trust them with. As the fund scales, they are deepening their investment bench and investing in the people who will lead it.
This is a hands-on execution role for an investment professional with a few years of deal experience who is ready to take on real responsibility early. You will take an integral role on deal teams across the team’s verticals, working on several live transactions at once and gaining direct exposure to management teams, advisers, and the assets themselves. Associates rotate across two to three verticals over their first 12 to 18 months before specialising, giving you breadth that is rare this early in a career and a clear path toward senior associate and beyond.
Are you passionate about private markets and seeking a rewarding career in fiduciary asset management? Do you have strong analytical capability, sound judgement and a keen interest in private equity and venture capital? Are you curious, detail-oriented and eager to learn in a high-performance investment environment? Then this position might be for you!!
JOB DESCRIPTION WILL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
- You will be required to work at the core of the deal teams and grow into a future leader within the fund;
- Deal execution and analysis:
- You will be responsible for building integrated three-statement and returns models from scratch and run the underwriting, valuation and scenario analysis, including IRR and MOIC, that supports investment decisions;
- You will be responsible for taking an integral role on deal teams across multiple live transactions at once, from evaluation through structuring and financing;
- You will be responsible for coordinating due diligence across financial, commercial, legal and technical workstreams, working directly with advisers and management teams to test the investment thesis;
- You will be responsible for preparing investment materials and supporting analysis to a high standard and attend management sessions and negotiations alongside the deal lead;
- Investment analysis and papers:
- You will be responsible for drafting investment committee papers and sections, presenting the thesis, the underwriting and the key risks clearly;
- You will be responsible for conducting market, sector, and company research and synthesise it into clear, decision-useful conclusions;
- You will be responsible for assessing development impact and ESG factors as part of the investment case, in line with the dual mandate;
- Portfolio support and monitoring:
- You will be responsible for supporting the active management and monitoring of portfolio companies, including performance tracking against the investment case, reporting and analysis;
- You will be responsible for helping prepare portfolio reviews and flag issues early for the deal team’s attention;
- Origination support:
- You will be responsible for supporting origination through market mapping, screening and the initial assessment of opportunities;
- You will be responsible for building a growing professional network across the team’s sectors and intermediaries;
- Cross-vertical development:
- You will be responsible for rotating across two to three of the team’s verticals, building broad investment capability before specialising;
- You will be responsible for getting close to the assets through site visits, operational immersion and direct exposure to senior investors and live transactions.
CORE COMPETENCIES REQUIRED, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
- You have a committed work ethic and high personal standards;
- You have entrepreneurial drive and the initiative to build, not just execute;
- You have the maturity to challenge constructively and to collaborate;
- You have a genuine alignment with our dual mandate of commercial returns and developmental impact;
- You have excellent communication (verbal and written) skills in English;
- You have the ability to build integrated three-statement and returns models from scratch and to run underwriting and valuation analysis;
- You have experience supporting or executing transactions across the deal lifecycle, with strong analytical skills;
- You have the ability to manage several workstreams at once and deliver to deadline under pressure;
- You have the ability to write clearly and synthesise complex information into clear conclusions;
- You have sound commercial instinct and a keen eye for detail.
CORE QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
- You are an honours degree; progress toward the CFA (Level 2 or beyond) or CA(SA) – this is strongly preferred;
- You have exposure to one or more of the team’s verticals;
- You have a minimum of 2 – 5 years current, relevant experience in private equity, venture capital, corporate finance, investment banking, transaction advisory, or a comparable analytical environment. WOW opportunity to join a very exciting team who are enjoying great success and seeing excellent deal flow.