Buy Side Associate Opportunity, Leveraged Finance Background

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom Global Alternatives Fund Full time
Job Description

We have been retained by a $20bn global alternatives fund looking to build out its European platform. This will be an opportunity to join a high caliber team focused on providing alternative financing to investment grade and sub-investment grade European corporates with asset downside protection.

This opportunity will allow the right individual to gain a large amount of exposure and responsibility much earlier in their career than most other private credit or direct lending funds, given a small sub 10 individual investment team.

Job description:

  • The Junior Investment professional would support the investment team in underwriting and executing deals as well as exploring new opportunities and monitoring/surveilling existing portfolio opportunities
  • Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Building complex financial models
  • Identifying markets and sourcing opportunities -origination
  • Analyzing findings and performing in depth market research
  • Negotiating terms and structuring agreements and documentation
  • Participation in and coordination of due diligence processes
  • Coordination and management of third-party service providers
  • Monitoring and surveilling the performance of existing positions and overseeing third-party asset managers
  • Preparing and presenting investment memorandums in front of Investment Committee
  • Review of documentation

Ideal candidate:

  • Experience within a bulge bracket, European investment bank or leading boutique
  • 2 – 5 years total experience within a leveraged finance or equivalent corporate credit team
  • Preference for a degree in physics, math, engineering, economics, finance, or other with strong record of quantitative course work
  • Strong corporate finance and excel modelling skills
  • Soft skills:
  • Proactive and intellectually curious
  • Strong professional writing skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong interpersonal and communications skills
  • Ability and comfort in managing and coordinating third-party service providers both during underwriting and post-closing of a transaction.
  • Ability to extract relevant information from legal documents / term sheets
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Ability to work independently and within a team
  • Willingness to travel
  • European language skills would be an additional benefit


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