Private Equity Associate

Gillespie And Partners Ltd

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East London, gb on site Until 8/22/2026 H-1B sponsor history First posted March 22, 2025 Last posted March 22, 2025
Job description

Our client is looking to add an Associate to their Alternatives Private Markets team which manages circa $10bn of capital invested across various Private Markets funds. It is one of the largest private market fund investors outside of the US.

Responsibilities include;

  • Assist in the monitoring of the existing portfolio of investments, which includes having calls with managers and assisting in the writing of investment monitoring reports 
  • To assist in the diligence of investment opportunities across a variety of different private market funds, ranging from buyout funds, growth capital funds, infrastructure funds, real estate funds and private credit funds
  • To assist the team in the day to day activities of running a large fund investment program me, including maintaining origination databases, workflow databases and other tasks
  • Responding to inbound requests from clients and assisting with their reporting and understanding of existing investments
  • Helping the team manage its various governance forums – team investment and oversight committees 
  • Maintaining and updating key investment databases 
  • Screening primary, secondary and co-investment opportunities for the team
  • Investments will be made via the discretionary institutional capital of Alternatives team or via the groups Private Bank feeder programme
  • Reviewing such opportunities to assess the overall risk/reward profile of the opportunity - upside potential versus the risk of loss of capital
  • Producing a rapid evaluation based on the above and presenting the overall investment thesis to the Alternatives Investment Committee

Experience sought;

  • 1-2 years of financial industry experience
  • Strong commercial acumen resulting in sound risk/reward judgments;
  • Strong presentation skills with the ability to convince without hard-selling;
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills;
  • Strong report writing skills 
  • Must have good written and verbal communication skills 
  • Ability to work accurately and calmly under time pressure;
  • Ability to work with private markets team to deliver investment-related projects 
  • Strong Excel modelling skills
  • We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating a diverse environment
About this role

Summary

Assist in private market investments, portfolio monitoring, due diligence, and reporting.

Job title

Private Equity Associate

Experience level

1-2 years

Industry

finance

Location requirements

East London, gb, no remote work

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

financial industry experiencepresentation skillsproject managementreport writingexcel modeling

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

private marketsfund investingportfolio monitoringinvestment diligence
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

East London, South Africa

On-site City
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