Job Postings

October 2022:

50 South Capital - Analyst, Private Equity

50 South Capital (www.50southcapital.com) is the private equity investment group within Northern Trust. 50 South Capital’s private equity group makes primary, secondary, and direct co-investments in buyout and venture capital funds and companies in the U.S., Europe and Asia. The team has extensive experience investing in the industry and has been led by its founding partners since 2000. It oversees over $12.5 billion in assets and is experiencing rapid growth.

The individual in the two year Analyst position will participate in all of the group’s activities, including investments, fundraising and portfolio management. This will include screening investment opportunities; meeting fund management teams; completing due diligence, including valuations and modeling; participating in various portfolio monitoring tasks and data analysis projects; creating and updating marketing materials; and participating in fundraising related initiatives.

Submissions should be emailed to Bradley Michael Dorchinecz [email protected]

The key responsibilities of the role include:
  • Preparing financial analysis in support of the firm's due diligence on private equity fund/secondary/direct investment opportunities.
  • Evaluating a firm’s strategy and historical track record versus industry benchmarks; tracking industry-wide and fund specific investment and liquidity data; modeling fund cash flows and transaction structures; working with valuation models and projection models; reference calls; and compiling information for investment committee presentations.
  • Supporting general duties within the primary, secondary, and direct investment functions, including monitoring the universe of buyout and venture capital fund managers, and meeting with these managers as part of the diligence process.
  • Assisting with business development and investor relations projects, such as maintaining marketing and quarterly performance presentations, creating industry white papers, and working with the back office team.
  • Position may require some travel.
 The successful candidate will benefit from having:
  • High attention to detail.
  • Strong work ethic.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to work within a collegial, team environment.
  • Strong communication skills, both written and oral.
  • Highly-developed analytical ability, curiosity.
  • Ability to prioritize workload and to work on a number of projects concurrently.
  • Strong business and interpersonal judgment skills with ability to assess both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of an investment.
  • Understanding of how financial markets work, particularly private equity.
  • Knowledge of basic financial analysis and the valuation of private companies.
  • Highly proficient in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Must be comfortable representing the firm to outside constituencies in a professional way.
  • Bachelor's degree, with a major in business, finance, accounting, or economics preferred; also engineering.
  • 0-1 years of experience with leveraged finance, consulting, public accounting, corporate finance or private equity.

 

May 2022:

Kinzie Capital Partners - Vice President, Finance & Accounting

As a valuable Kinzie employee, the Vice President, Finance & Accounting will assist the team by taking an active role in supporting the Finance & Operations team, which is dedicated to financial and compliance management as well as general operations. This role reports to the Founder & Managing Partner and works closely with the Director, Investor Relations & Operations as well as the Assistant Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations.

Get full job description HERE!  Please send inquiries to [email protected]

October 2021:

KRD - Accountants, Consultants, Advisors
KRD has openings at all levels in our tax, audit and client services departments.
Do you know someone looking for a great opportunity with an accounting, finance or data analytics background?  We have a spot for them!

Please share their resume with  our HR Director Christi Gillen or Al Kutchins.

September 2021:

Full Time Analyst, Director of Partnership Platform – ARCH Venture Partners

We are looking for a full-time analyst to join ARCH Venture Partners (Chicago HQ). This analyst will play a central role in a high-visibility internal project, connecting corporate venture partners and tech scouts with cutting-edge research.

Our ideal candidate is self-directed, detail-oriented, and comfortable exercising initiative and operating with minimal guidance. Candidates must be excited about cutting-edge scientific technologies and comfortable going deep in a wide range of scientific domains.

This role is ideal for a high-performing person who is early in their career and wants to learn about the commercialization of science, corporate technology scouting, and venture capital.

Get information here!

Analyst - NewSpring Capital

NewSpring Capital is looking for an analyst to support its Mezzanine strategy. In this position, you will play a critical role on our team of investment professionals who help to source new deals and manage our existing portfolio companies. You will provide support throughout the investment process and be involved in all aspects of the investment lifecycle including sourcing, underwriting and execution, monitoring and exiting.
Get all the details here!