An exciting career opportunity exists in Rondebosch, Cape Town for a Private Equity Analyst within a Financial environment. If you have the following behavioural competency and experience, we look forward to receiving your application.

Behavioural Competency:

• Proactive and high-energy with a hands-on approach to problem solving, and a positive and creative attitude
• Providing support to, and working with, experienced team members
• Depending on experience, providing training and mentoring to less experienced team members
• Uncompromising with respect to quality of work and completeness in all regards
• Unquestionable ethics and integrity
• Willing to take on a challenging amount of responsibility and work load
• Able to both take direction and show initiative as appropriate
• Results-oriented, with an ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously and expeditiously
• Demonstrated aptitude for quantitative analysis, risk assessment and financial modelling
• Ability to assess risks across a spectrum of areas related to each transaction
• Superior attention to detail and highly organised
• Ability to work independently and also to work closely with other team members
• Excellent analytical, strategic, negotiation and implementation skills
• Domestic travel required
• Analytical thinking
• Numeracy
• Attention to detail
• Judgement
• Initiative
• Assertive, articulate and confident
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Negotiation skills
• Networking skills
• Excellent planning and organisation skills
• Self-motivated and self-driven
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines
• Excellent communication skills (including written and presentation skills)
• Integrity
• Adaptability

 Duties include the following, but not limited to:

• Generate investment thesis/ideas emanating from market developments, sector information and/or company developments
• Participate in negotiations of new investments with support of experienced team members on behalf of the various Futuregrowth funds
• Preparation and presentation of Investment reports on new and existing portfolio investments for submission to the Futuregrowth Investment Committee

Provide financial evaluation of project investment opportunities to the Investment Committee which includes but not limited to:

• Historical financial statement analysis
• Historic and forecasted financial ratio analysis as well as scenario testing analysis
• Creating and analyzing complex financial models (including sensitivity analysis) to support potential investment opportunities
• Conduct market research in potential investment sectors

Requirements:

Technical and Professional Knowledge and Skills:

• Strong academic credentials – B Bus Science or similar
• CA or CFA candidate preferred
• Strong commercial focus with a passion for investments
• Strong company evaluation skills and private equity valuation skills
• Previous unlisted deal transaction experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• A good knowledge of PE and the ability to apply your skills creatively to diverse investment opportunities
• Proficiency in a variety of computer software applications, including MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Salary: Market Related
Application Process:
It is imperative that when applying for this position you make use of the reference number otherwise your application will not be considered.
Vacancy Reference no:  CPT002363                    
Closing Date: 24 April 2019
To apply for the above-mentioned position, please apply on our Website www.intelligentplacement.co.za/vacancies also add your profile picture to your CV.
If you don’t hear from us within three weeks of your application, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Posted on 17 Apr 07:32