We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
StepStone is a rapidly growing Global Private Markets firm who provides customized investment and advisory solutions to some of the most sophisticated investors in the world. With $682 billion of total capital allocations, including $176 billion in AUM, we are highly diversified in the private markets across the globe and provide creative solutions to solve for the objectives of any investment program. With a culture built on entrepreneurialism, partnership and being a team within teams, our firm offers candidates the ability to expand their knowledge of the private markets and bring that on-the-job experience back to their classrooms.
Application deadline: January 1, 2025
Position Overview
StepStone Private Wealth is seeking a Summer Intern with excellent quantitative, qualitative, and interpersonal skills to support the due diligence efforts of financial platforms globally as they consider the suite of evergreen funds under management. The Summer Intern’s primary role is to provide operational support to SPW’s due diligence function. This team oversees and manages fund data across four portfolio strategies and controls the information being shared externally. The intern will help manage intake of new requests, maintain the team’s content library, and ad-hoc projects, such as metric tracking.
The candidate is expected to show a desire to understand the details of the underlying products and the competitive landscape to support these efforts appropriately. The person should have a basic understanding of the investment landscape and an interest in the private markets space (specifically, private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and private debt), strong interpersonal skills, and project management skills.
Essential Job Functions:
- Assist with maintaining the private wealth central database of responses (using the Responsive software application) to ensure content is kept up to date.
- Collaborate with team’s effort to incorporate machine-learning technology to pre-populate the initial responses to inbound questionnaires.
- Strong commitment to high-quality writing, attention to detail and ability to constructively critique and proofread deliverables.
- Conduct market research on peers in the private wealth space.
- Assist with various ad-hoc tasks, projects, and analyses to support the due diligence team and broader StepStone Private Wealth platform.
Education Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, or liberal arts.
- Experience with related financial services (private equity, or investment management) is a plus.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Follow-up skills, focus on accuracy, and attention to detail are essential.
- Demonstrated ability for quality control and maintaining clean data.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
- Ability to prioritize activities while working on multiple projects and achieve target deadlines.
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Application deadline: January 1, 2025
About us
Working out of 26 offices in 15 countries, StepStone has a truly global viewpoint. As people are our biggest asset, we offer resources to help our employees reach their full potential. Our principles are based on integrity, transparency, respect and creativity, which together define how we do business.
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When you choose to work at StepStone, you'll find a group of professionals who are passionate about anticipating changes, solving problems and working together to make it all happen. Our integrated global team shares insights into how managers think and operate, as well as how they might perform.
StepStone offers a competitive compensation package including salary and incentive compensation for all full time hires, as well as a comprehensive benefits package.
Benefits
We offer a range of benefits which include comprehensive healthcare, strong retirement plan, a mental health well-being program, paid time off, student loan repayment program for our US office locations, and several wellness initiatives.
Disclaimer / Policy Statements
At StepStone, diversity, equity and inclusion are an integral part of our culture. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an inclusive environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups representing our dedication to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
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StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
