Project Lead - Private Equity Group

Project Lead - PEG (Private Equity Group)

Role positioning;

- This position is for a Project Leader (PL) to lead a team of analysts within the Private Equity Center of Expertize. The work spans a breadth of industries and multiple types of analysis including target screening, market sizing, market & competitive intelligence, consumer surveys, workforce analytics, digital analytics, and disruption assessments.

- Project Leaders produce client-ready research and analysis, generating strong business insights and understanding implications.

- Project Leaders work under the guidance of a Manager / Senior Manager, playing a key role in driving the teams overall answer and final materials, client communication, work planning, and team management.

- Project Leaders are generalists who lead projects across any geography or industry. Domain expertise/prior experience in diligence/transaction work (target screening, survey analytics, workforce assessment, sector and industry scans, etc). Advanced or Digital analytics is a plus

Roles and Responsibilities :

- Provide thought leadership and sound business judgment to drive the teams research and analysis on cases across geographies and industries

- Able to quickly come up to speed on different businesses and perform research and analysis across all geographies and industries

- Take responsibility for assigning work streams; monitor and balance workload

- Identify and employ relevant research sources and analytical tools

- Ensure timely, high quality, zero-defect research, analysis and output produced by the analysts

- Comfortable with the fast-paced nature of due diligences, that require quick ramp up on new projects

- Understand client needs and situations and adapt to case expectations

- Generate and screen realistic answers based on sound reality checks and recommend actionable solutions

- Communicate data, knowledge, and clearly explain insights and implications for the client to the entire team

- Team management responsibility which involves allocating and reviewing work to a team of Analysts & Associates and conducting performance discussions, writing reviews for appraisal,

- Consistently provide responsible feedback in all interactions; recognize teams development needs and provide feedback toward constant improvement

- Assist on Office Management roles (e.g. recruiting, marketing, training, etc.)

Desired Candidate Profile :

- B.Com, B.E, B.Tech and/or MBA from a top-tier institute/university with strong academic record

- Should possess excellent analytical, Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills

- Should possess strong communication and team skills

- Prior research experience, for example in commercial due diligence, target screening, market sizing, market & competitive intelligence, consumer surveys is a plus

- Prior experience in digital analytics (e.g. social media analytics, web analytics) is a plus

- Experienced at managing teams, and adept at multi-tasking

- Ability to deal with ambiguity, and develop approaches to tackle diligence questions

- Hands-on experience with tools such as Alteryx and Tableau, as well as languages such as R/Python is a plus