Acuity Knowledge Partners - Delivery Lead - Private Equity & Venture Capital

About Acuity Knowledge Partners :

Acuity Knowledge Partners, formerly part of Moody's Corporation, is a leading provider of bespoke research, analytics, staffing and technology solutions to the financial services sector.

Headquartered in London, Acuity Knowledge Partners has nearly two decades of transformation experience in servicing over 300 clients with a specialist workforce of over 2,500 analysts and delivery experts across its global delivery network.

We provide our clients with unique assistance not only to innovate, implement transformation programmes and increase operational efficiency, but also to manage costs and improve their top lines.

Our expertise includes the following :

- Corporate and Consulting services: Market and strategic research; survey work; treasury and counterparty risk support; and CEO office support, including M&A, FP&A and investor relations support

- Investment Banking: Origination and trading support

- Investment Research support: Covering all asset classes in terms of ideation, data science, and research support across the buy side and sell side

- Commercial Lending support: Across origination, credit assessment, underwriting, and covenant and portfolio risk for all lending types

- Private Equity: Origination, valuation and portfolio monitoring support

- Asset Management services support: Across marketing, investment research, portfolio management/optimisation, risk and compliance

- Compliance support: AML analytics, KYC, counterparty credit risk modelling and servicing across banks, asset managers and corporates

- Data Science: Web scraping, data structuring, analytics and visualisation. These services are supported by our proprietary suite of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific contextual technology.

These services are supported by our proprietary suite of Business Excellence and Automation Tools (BEAT) that offer domain-specific contextual technology.

Acuity Knowledge Partners is assisted by Equistone Partners Europe, a leading private equity organisation that backs specialist growth businesses and management teams.

For further details, please visit our website: www.acuitykp.com

Opportunity :

- This opportunity is ideal for private equity professionals interested in working with leading global private equity funds and corporations. The role provides good exposure to various aspects of the private equity industry.

Responsibilities :

- Investment opportunity identification : Identifying emerging and high-growth sectors for investment assessment through market analysis such as market size, historical and projected growth rates, emerging market trends, key drivers, etc.

- M&A and strategic analysis : Identification and analysis of potential targets through analysis of markets, products, services and financial synergies

- Commercial due diligence support : Commercial due diligence of potential investment through analysis of the market opportunity, target company's business model, its competitive positioning, etc.

- Financial modeling and valuation analysis : Creation and update of detailed financial models including DCF, M&A, LBO Models, trading & transaction comps, valuation analysis via different techniques.

- Peer group benchmarking & competition landscaping: Identifying players operating in relevant industry, mapping them by geographies, sector or other parameters, benchmarking shortlisted players on various KPIs

- Analyzing investment themes / strategies : Evaluating attractiveness of the overall sector / geography / company focused investment themes and strategies of the fund

- Industry analysis and dashboards : Deep dive industry studies on focus sectors, periodic monitoring of key industry drivers and performance indicators for specific industries

- Investment Memorandum : Creation of Investment memorandums, identifying key investment highlights & concerns, market opportunity, financial analysis, product analysis, arriving at potential valuation of the target company, return & sensitivity analysis

- Portfolio company monitoring : Periodic tracking of business and financial performance indicators of portfolio companies and benchmarking those with their peer group for timely identification of upside and / or downside triggers

- Project Management : Project structuring, planning, conceptualizing output, leading a team of 2-3 analysts, reviewing team's work, signing-off before delivery

- Client Management : Understanding project request, discuss project, negotiate deadline, handling client queries

Qualifications/ Required Background :

- Experience of 3-7 years supporting strategy research and analysis, preferably across industries

- CFA, MBA from a top tier business school in Strategy, Finance, Operations or Economics

- Experience working across databases such as Capital IQ, Factset, Preqin etc.

- Strong business fundamentals and knowledge of business analysis skills

- Strong problem solving abilities and analytical thinking skills, as evidenced by extensive experience in utilizing those skills in research and consulting environment. Adept at synthesizing information to generate insights

- Dedicated and motivated individuals having demonstrated academic excellence with strong leadership, analytical, communication and teamwork skills

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines

- Superior problem solving abilities and strong analytical thinking to seek the why, how and so-what of a problem statement and ability to think multiple/alternative solutions to a given problem

- Proven project management skills

- Excellent at using MS PowerPoint; command over MS Excel to process varied data sets in spreadsheets (Pivots, charting etc.) is highly desirable