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Position Overview:
The Analyst at StepStone Infrastructure & Real Assets will be responsible for providing analytical, modeling, and transactional support to SIRA’s local and international team in advising clients on investments in infrastructure and associated real asset sectors globally.
Essential Job Functions:- Strong financial modelling and analytical skills – ability to create and/or modify sophisticated financial models, analyze financial statements and financial forecasts, prepare valuation bridges, run discounted cash flow analysis, comparable public companies, and create sensitivity/scenario analysis;
- Strong memo / presentation writing and preparation skills;
- Ability to undertake research regarding, and diligence of, potential investment opportunities and sectors, including primary funds, secondaries, co-investments and direct investments;
- Ability to construct an argument around investment decisions and effectively communicate that argument both verbally and in written materials; be able to defend your position in a team environment, including in Investment Committee meetings;
- Strong client interaction skills – ability to interact with clients and prepare advisory materials as required; and,
- Support senior staff on sourcing and managing the inflow of investment opportunities
- 1–3 years of experience in IB, project finance advisory, transaction services, or equivalent
- Relevant buyside experience at a FoF or GP would also be considered directly transferable
- Transaction experience — M&A, financings, or diligence processes with clear deal exposure
- Ability to produce high-quality (at or near native standard) written content in business English
- Second European language is preferred (French, German, Danish)
- Self-starter, eager to learn and desire to grow within the organization
- Ability to work in a fast-paced global team environment with an ability to manage changing and competing priorities
- Flexibility – StepStone is a dynamic and entrepreneurial organization; all professionals are expected to perform multiple functions
- Promote and demonstrate a positive, team-oriented attitude
- German, Italian, French language skills a plus
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At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.
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.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.
Developing People at StepStone
Skills Required
- 1-3 years of experience in investment banking, project finance advisory, transaction services
- Transaction experience in M&A, financings, or diligence processes
- Ability to produce high-quality written content in business English
- Second European language is preferred
What We Do
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.
