Portfolio Analyst/Associate

Leudelange, Luxembourg

Full-time

About the position

Following ongoing and successful fundraisings strategies, we look to strengthen our Portfolio team by soon welcoming a Portfolio Analyst/Associate. 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
- Monitor portfolio data integrity, review internal reports within our portfolio management tool, and ensure consistency with external services (at instrument level and consolidated – nominal, discount, capitalized interest, equity ownership, and Capital gains).
- Support the valuation of the investments held by the funds in coordination with the investment team, independent experts, and finance team.
- Update and Review Financial fund models, report consolidated key metrics, and perform stress-testing analysis at investment/portfolio level (including levered returns).
- Support the origination and analysis of the fund financings raised through the lifetime of a fund (Equity Bridge Financing & Asset-based Leverage) and perform ongoing analysis on collateral assets, LTV ratios, and concentration limits (geography, industry, asset type…)
- Support in the preparation of reporting on the investments, notably for the Investor quarterly report and the Portfolio Review.
- Assist in updating policies and procedures for Portfolio to ensure compliance with CSSF and new regulations.
- Perform key analytics developments on ad-hoc projects (fundraising requests, internal projects to support the growth of the company…)
- Assist the Portfolio Manager and the Finance Team with the hedging strategy implementation at the Fund level.
- Liaise with Finance & Administration to ensure correct allocation of instruments and alignment of downstream/upstream proceeds to investors to respect financing covenants and enhance performance returns.
Requirements
- Finance, Economics, or Business University degree
- 1 to 3 years of relevant financial with analytical credit / Portfolio Management experience within an established Asset Management firm, global investment bank, CLO manager, fund manager, Big 4, or a financial company active in investment management
- Fluent in English – Additional European language is a plus
- Solid quantitative, financial, and analytical skills
- Advanced MS Excel and modeling skills
- Demonstrable interest in the private markets and strong working knowledge of all investment types
- Excellent communication and organizational skills – capacity to lead several tasks/projects in parallel
- Self-motivated, results-driven, with an inquisitive mind
- Ability to work as a team player in a dynamic environment • Impeccable integrity and trustworthiness

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 €5.0bn 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.

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, pro-actively looks to add value to their work as to 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?

You share our values, 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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