Investment Analyst

London, UK

Full-time

About the position

We are looking for an Investment Analyst to support our operations in Brussels, Luxembourg, Paris, London, Munich, Madrid, Milan, and Amsterdam. You’ll be joining a team of talented individuals who drive innovation, take initiative, embrace difference, and foster eagerness. We value team spirit, efficiency, comfort, and retention, to that end, we encourage inclusive leadership, generous total reward plans (comprising health, finance, and wealth), virtual team settings, social gatherings, healthy snacks, sports activity, as well as well-designed, efficient, modern workspaces.

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Main tasks and responsibilities
- Assist senior executives of the deal team throughout the whole lifecycle of the investment, from sourcing through investment monitoring to exit.
- Collaborate in the performance of market and business due diligence, and perform credit and investment analysis.
- Participate in preparing investment papers and recommendations for the firm’s Executive Committee.
- Participate in the negotiations of transactional legal documentation.
- Assist in the preparation of transaction documents, marketing materials, and memoranda.
- Support the Portfolio and Finance teams in the closing of new transactions.
- Support senior executives in staff meetings, management meetings, and investment committees.
- Develop relationships with the management teams of portfolio companies.
- Lead internal follow-up of screening of prospective investment opportunities as well as tracking of the firm’s investment pipeline.
- Participate in the internal monitoring of portfolio companies, including the review of monthly operating results and updating relevant financial models and performance reports, including ESG initiatives.
- Maintain appropriate deal databases and document filing systems and ensure compliance with record retention procedures.
- Always ensure confidentiality.
Requirements
- 1 to 3 years of relevant financial experience in private equity, private debt, leveraged loans, M&A, debt advisory, transaction services, or strategy consulting.
- Solid quantitative, financial, and analytical skills and advanced MS Excel and modeling skills.
- Excellent academic track record and a university / equivalent business school degree.

About Kartesia

Kartesia is a pan-European, independent, and privately owned specialist provider of credit and capital solutions. Kartesia invests across the capital structure into leading mid-market companies from a wide range of industries.

Today, Kartesia manages over €6.0bn of assets across 4 investment strategies and is one of the leading European managers in the leveraged loans market. Kartesia’s track record spans over 10 years of delivering top-tier risk-adjusted returns.

Following ongoing and successful fundraising strategies, we always look to strengthen our investment teams.

At Kartesia, we strive to hire people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because we trust it is the right thing to do, but because now, more than ever, it has proven to make our company stronger, dexterous, and more creative.

Our culture is our core. We aim to unleash each and everyone’s potential. Together, we commit to building a culture where Kartesia employees can do meaningful work, be recognized, and be rewarded for it. At Kartesia, you’ll be part of a flat, multi-cultural, and dynamic company where collegial work, well-being, entrepreneurship, and professional growth are part of the company’s main values.

Joining KARTESIA means more than just switching companies. You’ll be part of a flat, multi-cultural, and dynamic company where collegial work, well-being, entrepreneurship, and professional growth are part of the company’s main values.

About you

Would you recognize yourself as mainly being:

Ardent, curious, creative, combative, open-minded, humble?
An entrepreneurial individual who troubleshoots problems independently, proactively looking to add value to their work and the company?
As someone who easily operates with sharp deadlines and is attentive to detail?

Do you feel you can find yourself in this job posting?

Do you share our values and our enthusiasm?

If you find this career opportunity appealing, kindly fill out the contact form below. Following that, you will be connected with our HR Director, Ariane van der Haegen.

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