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About us
Companies, investors and government entities around the world turn to Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) for leadership, action and results. Privately held since its founding in 1983, A&M is a leading global professional services firm that provides advisory, business performance improvement and turnaround management services. When conventional approaches are not enough to create transformation and drive change, clients seek our deep expertise and ability to deliver practical solutions to their unique problems.
With over 10,000 people providing services across six continents, we deliver tangible results for corporates, boards, private equity firms, law firms and government agencies facing complex challenges. Our senior leaders, and their teams, leverage A&M’s restructuring heritage to help companies act decisively, catapult growth and accelerate results. We are experienced operators, world-class consultants, former regulators and industry authorities with a shared commitment to telling clients what is really needed for turning change into a strategic business asset, managing risk and unlocking value at every stage of growth.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to use your financial 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 Madrid, you will be working on high-impact pan-European projects across the entire private equity life cycle, from pre-acquisition support (operational due diligence, carve-out, merger integration), to transformation, performance improvement and operationalturnaround/restructuringthrough to supporting the exit.
As an Analyst, you will be working closely with Directors, Senior Directors and Managing Directors. You will benefit from constant exposure to the senior members of the team and client, and gain ‘on-the-job’ learning and development, leveraging on their substantial experience. You will have the chance to considerably nurture and enlarge your professional network as well.
Responsibilities:
- Being an active part of the teams supporting private equity firms and their portfolio companies in their pre-acquisition and performance improvement activities;
- Producing extensive financial modelling and analysis including cash flow models and projections;
- Synthesizing information after research and analysis into high quality client reports and recommendations;
- Produce integrated models with balance sheet, P&L and cash flow, identifying key trends and red flags;
- Supporting Managing Directors and other senior members of the team with client pitch production
- Build models based on financial and/or operational data and as such have excellent knowledge of Excel (to analyse the data) and PowerPoint (to present the analyses);
- Begin building own network of contacts/referral sources withprofessionals/institutions;
- Analyse heavy data sets using pivot tables;
- Read financial statements and derive immediate conclusions from it (mainly P&L and cash flow statement) whilst linking to operations;
- Find key information on companies reporting, know what to look for to understand company business performance and key information.
Requirements:
- Graduated from a leading university in Business and / or Engineering, or equivalent; Additional MSc or MBA qualifications highly desirable
- At least 2 years of experience in Consulting, Private Equity, Corporate Finance or Operations; Previous experience in business development or S&OP will be a plus.
- Strong problem solving skills and financial background combined with deep understanding of key business and operational drivers;
- Excellent analytical, financial modelling, writing andpresentation-buildingskills; attention to details.
- 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.
- Fluency in both English & Spanish (written and verbal);
- Ability to travel
- Additional European languages are also desirable.
