Valuations Senior Associate

Job Description:  

The Valuations Associate will assist with quarterly valuations of portfolio companies; portfolio monitoring, including capturing portfolio company financial information and preparing various analysis thereon; assisting with quarterly reports to limited partners on portfolio company performance and other special projects as assigned. While the position reports to the Senior Controllers + Director of Valuations, the Valuations Associate will work closely with members of the firm’s investment team (and Legal) and other members of the firm’s finance team. 

• Assist with the preparation of quarterly valuations: 

• Be adept at building out and maintaining valuation models for each investment 
• Understand the basic drivers of a valuation and know the precepts of a basic DCF/Public Comps model 
• Update public company comparable metrics, precedent transactions and WACC assumptions for DCF valuations 
• Know how to build and analyze a waterfall. 
• Know how to construct an Option Pricing Model. 
• Know how to model structured equity like convertible preferred and basic debt instruments. 

• Assist with the presentation of quarterly valuations: 

• Draft portfolio company valuations for the valuation committee
• Manage internal valuation reporting process to accounting 
• Assist in managing the mid-year and year-end audit process with auditors 
• Manage the external valuation process– Assist with preparation of quarterly valuation report to send to valuation committee including comparison of key valuation metrics to prior quarter valuations 

• Assist with portfolio company monitoring: 

• Liaise with associates and portfolio companies to obtain quarterly portfolio company financials. 

• Assist with ad-hoc projects related to IR/Compliance/Legal/Investment team 

• Examples Include: 
• Assist with portfolio company exit projection modeling. 
• Assist with preparation of the quarterly and annual letters to Limited Partners which highlight business performance in each reporting period 
• Assist compliance reviews of presentations

Qualifications: 

Approx. 3 years of p/e valuations experience