Research Associate, Private Equity - French Speaking

Your opportunity:

We're looking for a Private Equity Research Associate, to join our team.

Your contribution will be critical to our business; in addition to providing critical insights for our clients' strategic purposes and delivering project excellence, you will also begin your career journey towards project scoping and consulting, business development, and supporting the creation of unique research frameworks and digital-platform-based solutions.

This position it`s part of Evalueserve Romania's Financial Services division and is within a multicultural, supportive, and dynamic team of professionals that provides direct business support and end-to-end research solutions to clients mainly in the Americas and Europe.

If you love solving challenging business questions, working in dynamic teams, providing top-notch quality services to your clients, and bringing new ideas to the table, we want to talk to you.

We'll trust you to:

• Provide market research support to Private Equity Clients;
• Screen and analyze target companies for potential acquisition;
• Conduct financial analysis, transaction multiple analysis and perform valuation exercises;
• Assist in preparing investment memo (research, analysis, and presentation development);
• Build company profiles, peer analysis and target screening documents;
• Update precedents transactions list, public comps list;
• Support due diligence process, including document and financial review;
• Assist in responding to lender requests and data analysis.

What you bring to the role:

• Post-graduation degree, MBA (specialization in finance and econometrics) / CFA would be highly desirable;
• Sound qualitative and quantitative research and finance skills;
• Proficiency in creating PowerPoint presentations (investment teasers/CIM) for deals;
• Experience of using databases would be a plus - CapitalIQ, Datastream, Bloomberg, and FactSet;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English - required
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in French - required

We'd love to see:

• Ideally 2-5 years of financial / investment banking / private equity / buy-side research experience;
• Additional language skills (German / Italian) would be a plus.

Why choose us?

Evalueserve was founded in 2000 and is a global professional services provider offering research, analytics, and data management services. We're powered by mind+machineTM, a unique combination of human expertise and best-in-class technologies that use smart algorithms to simplify key tasks. We work with clients across a wide range of industries and business functions, helping them to make better decisions faster and reach new levels of efficiency and effectiveness.

We pride ourselves on having a multicultural team, with around 25 nationalities represented. Additionally, as a leading employer, we highly invest in our people's development with specific Line of Business and management training programs.

We offer a great number of employee benefits, including private medical insurance at Regina Maria, remote working and work from home bonus, celebratory bonuses for special occasions, meal tickets, Coursera access and Bookster subscription, comprehensive EAP program. If you apply to the position, we will share more details with you!

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) globally, eliminating discrimination, and promoting good relations among employees, regardless of age, disability, ethnicity or origin, sex, gender assignment, gender identity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, and marital or civil partnership status. Evalueserve is an inclusive employer and is proud of its diverse workforce.