Senior Associate-Financial Modeling - Gurugram, India - Acuity Knowledge Partners

Description

Key Resonsibilities:-

• Understanding company's business model, evaluating market size, identifying growth drivers, analyzing trends, SWOT analysis , competition position to prepare due diligence decks
• Benchmarking companies on various financial and operating parameters to understand industry growth and profitability
• Investment Memorandum/ Due diligence documents: Creation of Investment memorandums, identifying key investment highlights & concerns, market opportunity, financial analysis, product analysis, arriving at potential valuation of the target company, return & sensitivity analysis
• Familiarity with the analytical methods used in the start-up ecosystem like unit economics and cohort analysis a plus
• Financial analysis, including but not limited to:
• Analyzing financial statements to check various trends
• Comparing performance of companies during business cycles
• Ratio analysis, identifying relevant KPIs of the industries
• Financial Modelling: creation and updation of detailed financial models including DCF, M&A, LBO Models, trading & transaction comps, valuation analysis via different techniques
• Conducting industry research
• Identifying emerging and high-growth sectors for investment assessment through market analysis such as market size, historical and projected growth rates, emerging market trends, key drivers, etc.
• Portfolio company monitoring: Periodic tracking of business and financial performance indicators of portfolio companies and benchmarking those with their peer group for timely identification of upside and / or downside triggers
• Conducting quality check on projects

Eligibility

• Experience of 2 - 4 years in investment due diligence, industry research, financial analysis, valuation, and benchmarking. Experience in emerging technology (Fintech) a prerequisite
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience in client management
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office products, such as, Power Point, Excel and Word to deliver the desired output in a creative manner.
• Strong business fundamentals and knowledge of business analysis skills
• Strong problem-solving abilities and analytical thinking skills, as evidenced by extensive experience in utilizing those skills in research and consulting environment. Adept at synthesizing information to generate insights.
• Ability to work effectively under tight deadlines.
• Proven Project Management skills including Project structuring, planning, conceptualizing output, cross reviewing team's work.
• CFA / MBA from a top tier business school would be an added advantage.