Description:
We are currently hiring for a Managing Director opportunity with a Private Equity/Investment Management firm here in the Washington, DC area. This position will help manage the day-to-day investment operations, sourcing new investments, flexible debt and equity solutions, buy and sell strategies and other ad-hoc duties.
Responsibilities:
- Develop business plans and strategies
- Leveraging personal networks to identify new private investment opportunities
- Contribute to firm planning, development, and implementation of best practices, process improvements, and strategic initiatives, internally and across portfolio companies
- Manage investment sourcing, due diligence, and portfolio management functions of the company
- Provide investment and transaction structuring analysis
- Assist with ongoing monitoring and ad hoc strategic projects for portfolio companies
- Take a leading role in research and analysis of prospective investments
- Assess and manage financial risks, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other Quantitative fields
- 5+ years of work experience in private equity or lending with a focus in flexible debt & equity solutions for lower middle market businesses
- Demonstrate proficiency of Microsoft Office suite (with an emphasis on Excel)
- Fluency in all facets of the private equity investment process, including financial and business analysis, transaction structuring and negotiation, due diligence, debt financing and documentation
- Capability to demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills that have resulted in business relationships of trust, confidence and results
- Demonstrated experience working with companies with unsophisticated financial reporting capabilities
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills