Associate / Senior Associate Private Equity - Paris e, France - Alvarez and Marsal

Alvarez and Marsal

Entreprise vérifiée

Paris e, France

il y a 4 jours

Posté par:

Sophie Dupont

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Description

Description

Associate / Senior Associate, Private Equity Performance Improvement, Paris

Alvarez and Marsal's dedicated PEPI professionals work with Investors and their portfolio companies to provide independent analysis and end to end services across the investment life cycle that deliver results in every economic cycle.

Through our PEPI practice, Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) offers assistance to private equity owned portfolio companies that are under-performing or with a need of re-organisation and re-positioning.

Working directly with company management, A&M's involvement reassures all stakeholders that the company is taking important steps to address its problems and maximise its value.

Our PEPI business is rapidly growing its European team.

To continue our success and to support our ambitious growth plans, we are currently looking for an established & entrepreneurial consultant to join our Paris practice.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to become an integral part of our successful 'hands-on' team, working closely with Directors, Senior Directors and Managing Directors & gaining 'on-the-job' learning and development.

Responsibilities

Assisting in pitches;
Interacting effectively with clients;
Firm understanding of (PE) business in regards to financial & accounting skills;
Supporting in production of extensive financial modelling and analysis including cash flow models and projection;
Synthesizing information after research and analysis into high quality client (financial) reports and recommendations;
Contributing to business development activities;
Being an active part of the teams supporting private equity firms and their portfolio companies in their preacquisition and performance improvement activities.

Essential

Must be fluent (both written and verbal) in both French and English;
A Master degree (or equivalent/higher) from an accredited toptier university in engineering, accounting, business, or a similar discipline;
Prior experience within a leading strategy/operational Consulting house is highly desirable. If not, we require relevant experience from either within Private Equity, Corporate Finance or Operations;
Strong problemsolving skills and financial background combined with deep understanding of key business and operational drivers;
Excellent analytical, financial modelling, writing and presentationbuilding skills; attention to details and striving to produce zerodefect deliverables;
Factbased and analytical approach, solutionfocused, actionoriented, determined to make a difference and not afraid to challenge the statusquo; selfstarter with entrepreneurial flair;
Familiarity with the private equity lifecycle;
Ability to prioritise especially in highly pressured situations;
High integrity that is characterised by the ability to deliver messages even when they are difficult to hear;
Excellent Excel modelling skills structure data within Excel in a way to draw conclusions and support timely decision making with our clients;
Ability to quickly understand and piece together very vast or very limited amounts of data and to draw certain conclusions/actions from it;
Ability to travel at very short notice, panEuropean.

Desirable

Additional MSc, MBA or other accounting qualifications highly desirable;
Varied cross sector background covering different industries (manufacturing, retail, pharma etc);
Additional European languages are also very desirable.