Associate, Riverside European Partners ( REF ) Madrid The Riverside Company is a global private equity firm advising on investments in growing medium-sized businesses.
Since its founding in 1988, Riverside has made more than 1,000 transactions and the firm's current, international portfolio includes more than 140 companies.
Riverside's focus is the middle market, usually with an enterprise value of up to €250 million.
The firm has 16 offices across North America, Europe and Australia staffed with more than 300 local professionals speaking over two dozen languages.
The firm s active, hands-on investment approach aims to accelerate growth within its portfolio of companies.
Riverside is proud to partner with strong management teams to help make companies fundamentally better and measurably larger.
Riverside s activities in Europe are concentrated around six offices : Brussels, London, Munich, Luxembourg, Stockholm and Madrid, with about 30 investment, origination and operating professionals.
Riverside is investing from its seventh European vintage and has more than €13 billion of assets under management.
Deal flow is strong across its target regions in Europe and its four industry specializations, Software & Technology, Consumer Products, Healthcare, and Sustainable Manufacturing & Distribution.
Riverside is to hire an Associate, to work primarily with team members based in the Madrid office but should expect to gain meaningful exposure to deal work with colleagues in other Riverside offices throughout Europe.
Job description The Associate provides support on transaction execution and portfolio company oversight.
To help research and evaluate new deal opportunities, perform detailed financial and commercial due diligence during deal execution, and support the preparation of internal investment analyses and documentation.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to : Completing thorough industry and deal-specific research; Preparing memoranda for investment committees and other internal audiences; Building robust and error-free financial models; Participating in company visits and management presentations; Supporting due diligence processes, including gathering and analyzing financial, commercial, legal, accounting and tax company data, compiling industry and market research (desktop research, expert calls, etc.
coordinating advisors and organizing data rooms; Producing analyses to evaluate add-on opportunities for existing portfolio companies; Supporting the preparation of 100-day plans to spearhead the strategic development of newly acquired companies; Processing portfolio company financial data; Preparing quarterly reports on portfolio companies for LP investor reporting purposes.
Candidate profile The successful candidate should have between 3-4 years of relevant experience from international top-tier investment banking, transaction services, management consultancy or an investment firm and be fluent in Italian and English.
Strong writing and modeling skills are required such as an analytical and commercially driven mindset - the ability to understand market trends and their impact on a company's strategy and business model.
Also, good academics from a well reputed university is needed.
Additionally, to that, the candidate should be a self-confident, balanced personality who is able to look at business cases from different perspectives and also consider possible solutions in a wider context.
He / she should be open for new things, be interested in new market developments / new technologies and curious for new ideas.
Moreover, the person should be able to present well with portfolio companies and other stakeholders.
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