Title: Private Equity Pre-MBA Associate - Business Services
Location: South Carolina
A firm that operates on an independent sponsor model is looking to add Pre-MBA Associate to their team in South Carolina. They're focused on the business services sector.
Private Equity Associate Responsibilities:
- Diligence and execute private equity investment opportunities, primarily in the business services space, with additional transactions across various other industries
- Create research-based industry reports to identify attractive areas of investment opportunity and competitive analyses
- Financial modeling including analysis of financial statements, valuations, returns, and competitive ratios
- Create investment presentations and transactions memos regarding new investment opportunities
- Evaluate and monitor the ongoing performance of portfolio company investments
- Maintain deal pipeline to memorialize all screened investment opportunities
- Participate in fund raising presentations and marketing
- Take lead on industry and competitive market research
Ideal Candidate Qualities:
- 2-3 years of top tier investment banking or private equity firm
- Strong presentation skills and ability to work well with powerpoint
- Strong research skills and ability to create industry and competitive analyses as well as conduct thorough research on target companies
- Strong financial and excel modeling experience