Associate Director - Investments - BFSI

About the role :

- This role will primarily be responsible for driving the ideation and execution of seed stage investments within us.

- In addition, the role will also support sourcing, evaluation and execution of investment opportunities for us . The selected candidate drive the end-to- end investment process, including building a pipeline of external opportunities, conducting industry research, determining fit with our investment thesis, driving valuation analyses, organizing due diligence, presenting recommendations to the Investment Committee and transaction execution.

What you'll do:

- Driving ideation and execution of seed stage investments

- Partner with best-in-class global accelerators to create customised mentorship programs for our seed stage investment portfolio

- Develop and end-to-end program for seed stage investments

- Engage with our leadership to create mentorship frameworks for portfolio companies

- Deep engagement and participating /mentoring our seed stage portfolio Sourcing, evaluation and execution of investment opportunities for us.

- Identify, assess, and execute potential investment opportunities

- Drive all stages of the investment process including origination, valuation, due Diligence, transaction execution and integration

- Evaluate opportunities, analysing the opportunity and presenting recommendations based on fit, deal structure and transactional issues

- Post investment work closely with the investee companies in ensuring value creation and realization for us.

What you should have :

- The ideal candidate for this role would have 6-8 years of experience working with venture capital firms, Investment Banks in Technology vertical.

- Understanding of the technology landscape and a strong network within the Indian startup ecosystem, including entrepreneurs and investors

- Experience of having engaged deeply with seed-stage companies. Experience of managing/ actively driving accelerator, incubator programs is an added advantage

- Good understanding of overall investment process including term sheets, diligence, and definitive documentation

- Think Big - identify new areas of opportunity for us, create investment strategies and evaluate key targets.

- Bachelor degree and MBA from top-tier universities is required.