Senior Asset Management Associate (INFRA)

• Develop relationships with underlying management teams, boards of directors, and service providers
• Work closely with investment teams, operating professionals, Operating Directors, and portfolio company management to:
• Onboard newly acquired portfolio companies
• Establish appropriate governance arrangements
• Help define strategic plans
• Drive implementation of value creation opportunities
• Support ongoing operational improvement, restructuring, or re-engineering to maximize value creation
• Support, advise, and challenge management teams, including taking formal board roles in the holding structure where appropriate
• Maintain strong operational focus, regularly reviewing financial and operational performance of portfolio companies, ensuring achievement of agreed goals
• Independently manage due diligence support for lead investments and prepare recommendations for value creation plans
• Conduct and coordinate reporting, investment monitoring, market research, internal requests, and marketing efforts
• Support client interactions, presenting portions of pitches or presentations
• Help continuously develop asset management-related processes, tools, best practices, and playbooks

• Master's and/or MBA and minimum 6- 10 years of relevant work experience
• Ability to understand a private equity underwriting and value creation plan (including the P&L, CF and BS). Ability to translate this into action items, KPIs and lead execution from board perspective.
• Experience in designing and running transformation programs (setting up a strategic plan, start the implementation,…)
• Demonstrates sound functional expertise in operations and SG&A functions (operational excellence, cost saving and operational transformation / operational restructuring programs, value creation programs) or as a second priority scaling businesses and experience of implementation of buy-and-build strategies)
• Analytical skillset, thinks quantitatively
• Experienced in working with management teams outside-in, can communicate on eye-level with C-level management and board and is accepted / respected by management and board members
• Sound understanding of integrated business planning (P&L, CF & BS), financing and valuation

• Ideally one or several of the following
• Operational management experience from PMO and / or executive function in a corporate environment having gained a good understanding of how to successfully establish value creation / transformation in a corporate environment
• Experience from international working environment
• Operational and / or strategy consulting firm (had touchdowns with PE but not only for DD but for strategy implementation, value creation or restructuring expertise)
• Experience from Private Markets Firm or experience of having worked within private equity backed businesses
• Expertise in infrastructure (sub-sectors) is a plus, not a must

• Professional, international working environment;
• Challenging, rewarding career within a growing company;
• Entrepreneurial culture offering opportunity to learn the business from some of the world's leading private market specialists;
• Collaborative environment, with on-the-job training and mentorship opportunities;
• Education assistance program;
• Lunch allowance;
• One-month sabbatical after every five years of service;
• Fun office and team events, including volunteer opportunities to connect with and help our local communities.

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