Acuity Knowledge Partners - Senior Associate/DL - Qualitative/Quantitative Research

- Investment opportunity identification: 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.

- Deal Sourcing: Identify attractive targets, target screening, market mapping, competition landscaping, peer group benchmarking

- Analyzing investment themes / strategies: Evaluating attractiveness of the overall sector / geography / company focused investment themes and strategies of the fund

- Industry analysis and dashboards: Deep dive industry studies on focus sectors, periodic monitoring of key industry drivers and performance indicators for specific industries

- Commercial due diligence support: Commercial due diligence of potential investment through analysis of the market opportunity, target company's business model, its competitive positioning, etc.

- Investment Memorandum: 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

- Financial modeling and valuation analysis: creation and update of detailed financial models including DCF, M&A, LBO Models, trading & transaction comps, valuation analysis via different techniques.

- M&A and strategic analysis: Identification and analysis of potential targets through analysis of markets, products, services and financial synergies

- 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

- Project Management: Project structuring, planning, conceptualizing output, leading a team of 2-3 analysts, reviewing team's work, signing-off before delivery

- Client Management: Understanding project request, discuss project, negotiate deadline, handling client queries