Senior Analyst, Private Equity Operations

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Bangalore

Reporting To: Senior Associate. Operations

Description

You will have the opportunity to pursue and cultivate a rewarding career with a forward-thinking organization. As a FAIR Senior Analyst, you will have the ability to add value across multiple clients within the FAIR team, enabling you to gain a deep perspective and awareness of the wider industry. You will gain a rich knowledge of the alternative investment market as you perform analysis over the fees charged to our clients in multiple different alternative investments. Additionally, you will get to hone your communication and project management skills as you assist our Client Managers in keeping our various projects on track. People are at core of all that we do – based on the consistent achievement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), there are opportunities for development and career progression.

What You’ll Be Doing

Reporting and Analysis

• Read through and extract key datapoints from financial statements, capital account statements, ILPA templates, and GP-provided schedules
• Create detailed reports over management fees, partnership expenses, and carried interest for a variety of alternative investments, including private equity, real estate, private debt, and hedge funds
• Apply consistent methodology around data extraction, fee recalculation, and report creation
• Identify inconsistencies or large variances and escalate them to more senior team members for resolution
• Consult with experienced team members across the globe when variances arise or when methodologies are unclear

Client Management

• Assist the main point of contact for clients in the APAC region through responding to client email inquiries, updating internal and external trackers, sitting on regular status calls, and participating in presentations
• Breakdown and explain complex fund terms, especially those relating to carried interest and management fees
• Created detailed presentation materials and present FAIR findings to clients on a quarterly basis
• Respond to client email inquiries timely and effectively
• Respond to client email inquiries timely and effectively

What You’ll Bring To Us

Reporting and Analysis

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in fund accounting, investment management, external audit, or another private equity-adjacent role in a top firm
• Expertise in understanding financial statements including the notes to the financial statements, capital account statements, cash flow notices, ILPA templates, and other information regularly published by GPs
• General understanding of limited partnership agreements, private equity fund structures, and associated fees
• Detailed-orientated as it concerns applying consistent methodologies, analyzing data, and creating client-ready reports
• Self-motivated to meet internal KPIs
• General understanding of most Microsoft Excel functions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially as it applies to communicating with individuals across our global organization
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required
• CA, CPA, CFA, ACCA, or other accounting/ finance certification(s) required

Client Management

• 1+ year(s) of experience in client management/ service as a financial consultant, auditor, investment advisor, or other financial service field
• Strong presentation skills including the creation of presentation materials in Microsoft PowerPoint and the ability to break down and explain complex topics to key stakeholders
• Respond to client email inquiries timely and effectively, looping in senior team members as needed
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills

Why join us?

About Us

You will be joining the world’s leading data and insights provider for the alternative assets market. We empower the global financial community with critical information and leading analytics solutions to help them make faster and smarter investment decisions, and to make them with confidence. A forward-thinking company, we lead our industry through innovation. We trust in the power of data, and we use it to increase transparency in alternatives. We believe that access to information leads to more investment in the ideas and infrastructure that build strong communities.

Our Culture

We centre our culture in our teams members growth, sparking their curiosity and fuelling their career adventures. We celebrate and recognise contribution, high performance and strong collaborative behaviours. We’re building and growing our learning programs, frameworks and tools to help people thrive and it’s an exciting time to join us. We support our internal communities and donate our time, knowledge and support to the communities that surround our offices globally.

Equal opportunities

Preqin is an equal opportunity employer, with diversity at the heart of our business. It is the policy of Preqin to ensure equal employment and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, genetic information, socioeconomic status, political affiliation, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law.