Description
What is Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI)?
Alvarez and Marsal’s dedicated PEPI professionals work with investors and their portfolio companies to provide independent analysis and end-to-end services across the investment life cycle that deliver results in every economic cycle. Through our PEPI practice, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) offers assistance to the private equity owned portfolio companies that are under-performing or with a need of re-organization and re-positioning. Working directly with company management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address its problems and maximize its value.
Alvarez & Marsal’s Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) business is rapidly growing its high-performance European team. To continue our success and to support our ambitious growth plans, we are currently looking for an Associate to join our Delhi team.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to use your outstanding financial acumen and problem-solving skills to become an integral part of our successful ‘hands-on’ team. As a valued member of the A&M Pan-European PEPI team based in Delhi, you will be working on high-impact projects throughout Europe and across the entire private equity life cycle, from pre-acquisition support (operational due diligence, carve-out, merger integration), to transformation, performance improvement and operational turnaround/restructuring, through to supporting the exit.
What will you be doing?
As PEPI team member, you will be working closely with Senior Directors and Managing Directors in a flat team structure. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to become an integral part of our successful ‘hands-on’ team. You will also have the chance to contribute to business development activities, discuss and suggest the development of innovative offerings for our market and considerably nurture and enlarge your professional network as well.
Considering the pace of targeted growth, we are keen to find people who are entrepreneurial, driven by a passion to drive significant growth (people who can think in multiples of growth rather than percentages), are comfortable with ambiguity, will roll up the sleeves and be hands on to get things done and can be independent requiring limited cover.
The role will be initially based in Delhi NCR. However, the person should be open to travel as and when needed. However, the person should be open to relocate to Mumbai or Bengaluru as the capability center scales and decide to relocate.
Key responsibilities:
- Assisting in pitches
- Interacting effectively with clients
- Firm understanding of (PE) business regarding financial & accounting skills
- Supporting in production of extensive financial modelling and analysis including cash flow models and projection
- Synthesizing information after research and analysis into high quality client (financial) reports and recommendations
- Contributing to business development activities
- Being an active part of the teams supporting private equity firms and their portfolio companies in their pre-acquisition and performance improvement activities
Qualifications/ Ideal Experience
- Prior experience for at 3-6 years within a leading strategy/operational consulting house is highly desirable. If not, we require relevant experience from either within Private Equity, Corporate Finance or Operations
- Strong problem-solving skills and financial background combined with deep understanding of key business and operational drivers
- Excellent analytical, financial modelling, writing, and presentation-building skills; attention to details and striving to produce zero-defect deliverables.
- Fact-based and analytical approach, solution-focused, action-oriented, determined to make a difference and not afraid to challenge the status-quo, self-starter with entrepreneurial flair
- Familiarity with the private equity lifecycle
- Ability to prioritize - especially in highly pressured situations
- High integrity that is characterized by the ability to deliver messages even when they are difficult to hear
- Excel modelling skills - structure data within Excel in a way to draw conclusions and support timely decision making with our clients
- Ability to quickly understand and piece together very vast or very limited amounts of data and to draw certain conclusions/actions from it
- Ability to travel at very short notice
