Location: London Salary: Basic plus excellent upside
Our client is a London based fund manager with around $12bn AUM across a number or funds and trading strategies with offices in London, Chicago, New York and Singapore. They have recently opened a 3 - year lock up hedge fund focusing on Emerging Markets with emphasis on Latin America, Russia, CIS and Sub-Saharan Africa. The fund will target opportunistic, value and event driven transactions including distressed and restructuring situations.
Key Responsibilities:
Undertake analysis of potential investments across emerging markets.Conduct research on sectors and specific companies.Create valuation models for investment targets, including modelling of financial projections and sensitivity analysis.Assisting in the sourcing and screening of new opportunities.Manage the investment process from sourcing to completion including the organisation and execution of due diligence and the preparation of investment recommendations.
Requirements for this role could include:
Considerable experience within a bulge bracket investment bank or asset manager with a high yield, leverage finance, structured finance, distressed debt, private equity or M&A group.Excellent analytical and quantitative skills.Excellent understanding of business valuation techniques.Experience of emerging markets.A Russian speaker.Knowledge of fixed in come basics.