Investment Professional (Vice President)

About Permira

Permira is a global investment firm that backs successful businesses with growth ambitions. Founded in 1985, the firm advises funds across two core asset classes, private equity and credit, with total committed capital of approximately €89bn. The Permira private equity funds make both buyout and growth equity investments in four key sectors: Technology, Consumer, Healthcare and Services. The Permira credit funds support businesses with flexible financing solutions across Direct Lending, Strategic Opportunities and CLO Management. Established in 2007, the firm advises investment funds and products which have provided approximately €25 billion of debt capital to over 300 businesses.

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EMPLOYER: Permira Advisers LLC 

TITLE: Investment Professional (Vice President) (Job Ref# PIPVP26) 

DUTIES: Focus on buyout, research industries, and participate in international deals. Perform due diligence and transactional financing. Perform valuation. Build mathematical models for pricing and risk management utilizing Excel. Conduct initial review of investment opportunities through independent research and lead calls with industry experts. Conduct financial analysis, including analyzing key performance indicators, building an operating model and a leveraged buyout model to assess investment returns in various scenarios. Create Investment Review materials and present to the Firm’s Investment Committee. Oversee post-transaction, assist with implementation of a value creation plan and conduct portfolio company monitoring duties including attending board meetings, assisting with add-on M&A and other operational assistance. Lead deal teams of 3-4 Associate Investment Professionals and guide junior team members in goal setting, task planning and output creation. Source and initiate investment opportunities with emphasis on creating a proactive and proprietary sourcing capability. Form relationships with industry participants including management teams, investors, bankers, and consultants for both identification of new opportunities and in support of diligence investment opportunities as well as attend industry conferences and other networking events. Conduct comprehensive due diligence for potential investments, including managing third-party consultants related to financial, commercial, operational, legal or technology topics. Liaise with and help manage those third parties and professional advisors (financial, legal, consultants etc.). Oversee analysis and evaluation of investment opportunities including conducting due diligence and developing transaction and financing structures; assess business, industry, or economic conditions, as well as interpret data and trends on sales volume, price, operating costs, and margins across companies and industries; and run assessment of business quality via assessment of retention, growth, sales / GTM efficiency and profitability. Help build and develop complex financial models to aide in the evaluation of investment opportunities, including testing assumptions and sensitivities, as well as review models built by others to identify the key value creation levers and investment risks and compile the materials and analysis to support the investment case. Assess and account for investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting current and potential investments, as well as monitor fundamental economic, industrial, and corporate developments by analyzing financial, accounting, tax and commercial information. Make the investment case in Investment Committee discussions. Assist with the overall deal execution, as well as negotiate investment terms and structures and negotiate acquisitions and financing, overseeing the creation of all documentation related to transactions. Build upon and leverage already established relationships that will assist in contributing to the strategy, growth and profitability of the investment. Oversee post-transaction by assisting with implementation of a value creation plan and conduct portfolio company monitoring duties including attending board meetings, assisting with add-on M&A and other operational assistance. Continually review internal company performance and valuation reporting to monitor and enhance the performance of portfolio companies. Partner with internal Value Creation team on strategies and goals for each portfolio company, as well as engage third party advisers where needed to drive company growth and success. 

SALARY: $275,000 / year 

WORK SCHEDULE: 40 hours / week (from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) 

LOCATION: 3000 Sand Hill Road, Building 1, Suite 170, Menlo Park, CA 94025. 

REQUIREMENTS:  Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or related field plus four (4) years of progressively responsible experience in any role/occupation/position involving any one or a combination of Management Consultant, Investment Banking and/or Private Equity. Experience must include: conducting data analysis and investment returns modelling; working within the investing community across target companies, other investors, bankers and consultants; performing fundamentals of financial analysis, financial statements, financial modeling, forming investment theses, and valuing companies; performing financial and economic analysis to assess areas of opportunities for clients; assessing market entry strategies and revenue growth opportunities; analyzing SKU data to understand drivers of complexity and recommend SKUs to prioritize and de-prioritize and forecasting market size, business growth rates, market dynamics to assess and recommend go forward strategies to take advantage of market dynamics; and utilizing Excel, Alteryx, Tableau, and PowerPoint to analyze client / market data and present findings. International and domestic travel required 10% of the time for deal execution and support of portfolio companies. Frequency and location impossible to predict. Telecommuting permitted within normal commuting distance on Fridays. 

APPLY BELOW OR CONTACT: Via email at kathryn.tacchi@permira.com RE Job Code #PIPVP26

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