Acuity Knowledge Partners
Location
Gurgaon | India
Job description
Roles & Responsibilities -
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. Candidates who’ve performed valuation on start-ups and high growth companies will be preferred. Revenue & Cost Drivers: Identify industry-specific KPIs and able to project the revenues and cost based on drivers. The candidate should be well-versed with discount rate calculation, WACC, IRR and sensitivity analysis. 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. Investment Memorandum : Creation of Investment memorandums, identifying key investment highlights & concerns, quarterly investment letters, market opportunity, financial analysis, product analysis, arriving at potential valuation of the target company, return & sensitivity analysis. M&A and strategic analysis : Identification and analysis of potential targets through analysis of markets, products, services and financial synergies. 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. 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. Required Background - Experience of 5-7 years supporting strategy research and analysis, preferably across industries. CFA, MBA from a top tier business school in Strategy, Finance, Operations or Economics. Strong finance fundamentals and knowledge of financial analysis skills. Experience working across databases such as Capital IQ, FactSet, Preqin etc. Excellent at using MS PowerPoint; command over MS Excel to process varied data sets in spreadsheets (Pivots, charting etc.) is highly desirable. 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 . Excellent 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.Job tags
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