Senior Associate - Investments - CA/CFA

Synergy Capital (www.synergycapital.fund) is seeking an outstanding Senior Associate to join a focused investment platform that executes concentrated, high conviction investments. The role offers a rare combination of analytical depth, direct exposure to one of India's most experienced private equity investors (Apurva Patel), and true deal ownership. The successful candidate will help evaluate and execute early growth private investments and contribute selectively to the firm's developing global asset-allocation activity.

This is not a large fund environment with layers of hierarchy-it is a merit based boutique in which the associate is expected to "think and act as an investor" from day one.

We have INR 100cr under management from 6 transactions, and recent notable deals include Beco, Hosteller, Flipspaces.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

- C.A. (passed the final in first attempt) or C.F.A. (passed level 3).

- 4-6 years of experience post C.A. in doing unlisted deals, or doing commercial or financial DD for unlisted deals, or investment banking for consumer deals. Ideal experience would be in consumer products and services sectors, from Series A onwards (not Seed stage). We are not seeking candidates from Capital Markets / Debt placement / Infrastructure / Real estate / Consulting.

- Strong analytical and financing modelling capabilities.

- Proven ability to work independently in a small team and comes across as a team player to both peers and clients.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

- Already living and working in Mumbai.

BEHAVIOURAL QUALITIES:

- Strong desire to become an 'investor', therefore shows intellectual curiosity and adopts the rigorous, evidence driven approach created by Synergy Capital.

- Takes pride in the quality of every output, small or large.

- Displays the maturity required to deal with stakeholders on behalf of Synergy Capital.

- Comfortable with being in a 2-person team initially, with strong desire to lead a segment of activity in 5 years.

- Self-starter by nature who is comfortable with cold-calling required to perform private market diligence.