Private Equity Analyst

Job Description

Private Equity Analyst | StepStone Group

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at StepStone Group, a global private markets specialist. The company is dedicated to delivering tailored investment solutions, expert advisory services, and impactful, data-driven insights to the world’s investors. This Private Equity Analyst position is crucial for engaging broadly across the private equity industry, providing essential diligence for both advisory services and the firm’s asset management business lines, thereby enabling clients to succeed by identifying key advantages and answers.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Not specified
• Pay: $105000–$112500 yearly
• Mission: Engage broadly in the private equity industry by conducting diligence for advisory, co-investment, and secondaries practices.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Due Diligence: Work within a team environment to proactively source, rigorously screen, and conduct comprehensive due diligence on select private equity fund managers, co-investments, and secondaries.
• Financial Analysis: Perform in-depth quantitative and qualitative research, including robust financial modeling and detailed valuation analysis, across companies and assets spanning various industries and global geographies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Interact directly with fund managers and portfolio company management teams to conduct thorough portfolio and asset-level underwriting and analysis, gathering critical insights for investment decisions.
• Investment Reporting & Research: Analyze Private Placement Memorandums (PPMs), detailed financial statements, and investment returns; conduct essential reference calls as part of manager and asset due diligence; and perform market research utilizing both publicly available information and proprietary databases to identify and analyze macroeconomic trends.
• Strategic Presentation & Monitoring: Prepare comprehensive due diligence materials and Investment Committee memos, present well-reasoned recommendations to the investment team and the Firm’s Investment Committee, and continuously monitor the performance of the Firm’s existing investments to ensure ongoing success.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Early-career professional with a GPA of 3.5 or higher.
• Experience: 1 year of experience in investment banking, consulting, and/or private equity. Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Skills:
• Excellent quantitative skills, including financial modeling, analytical, and valuation capabilities for evaluating investment opportunities.
• Strong sense of risk/reward trade-offs and the ability to display sound investment judgment.
• Self-starter, with a strong ability to think creatively and conduct research to find solutions.
• Effective communication and presentation skills, both verbally and in writing.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Power Point, and Excel.