Department :
Flexible role within Investor Relations Department
Location :
Frankfurt
Contract :
Internship
Duration :
3 to 6 months
Start date :
Q4 2025
The role
The Frankfurt-based internship will involve contributing to various key tasks:
Fundraising support:
Develop tailor-made presentations to meet the needs of our major clients.
Generate financial data for prospective investors' due diligence, including historical and projected cash flows, performance indicators, and financial metrics evolution.
Update marketing sets for fundraising efforts, including Excel due diligence packs, marketing presentations, and PPM.
Conduct portfolio modelling and investment simulations in new funds.
Investor reporting:
Provide detailed and technical responses to investors on quantitative and qualitative data included in reports, communications, or any developments regarding the company/funds' activities.
Produce tailor-made transversal reporting that covers historical and
projected performance, portfolio diversification, and investment
simulations, ensuring accuracy and relevance to investors' needs.
Additional analyses:
Assist in mapping the investor landscape and identifying potential LPs, leveraging internal and external databases.
Gather information on regional financial news to support investor communications.
Help prepare and coordinate information campaigns to investors, ensuring clear and impactful communication of key messages and developments.
Required skills
Fluent in both English and German.
Advanced proficiency in Excel and a good command of other Microsoft Office applications.
Sound understanding of Corporate and Private Equity fund financial models.
Exceptional attention to detail.
Self-motivated with the ability to work independently on projects.
Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to collaborate effectively within a team.
Profile
Final year undergraduate or graduate level student in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Business Management or equivalent.
Commercial understanding of Private Equity.
Ideally, you already have initial experience through internships in similar areas.
About the Team
The Investor Relations Department is responsible for fundraising activities and managing relationships with existing investors. It also coordinates with all teams within Ardian to respond to investors’ due diligence questions. This collaboration ensures that all team members have a thorough understanding of Ardian's full scope of operations. This knowledge allows them to deliver services that maintain Ardian's reputation.
The Investor Relations Department comprises three teams: Sales Force, Client Solutions, and Product Management.
The Client Solutions Team, consisting of over 20 professionals, operates across New York, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Santiago, Singapore, Beijing and Tokyo. This team's primary focus is addressing investors' inquiries, delivering both standard and customized reports promptly and to the highest standards, covering Ardian’s extensive investment activities. Team members, with their strong quantitative backgrounds, are responsible for managing data to respond to both current and prospective investors' inquiries.
Application process
Please send your application (CV and covering letter) by clicking on APPLY.
Ardian Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ardian and has not been reviewed or approved by Ardian.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare is frequently described as strong, with supplemental coverage in Europe and solid medical offerings highlighted in the U.S. Feedback suggests this contributes meaningfully to perceived total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off, Europe-specific days such as RTT, and signals of generous parental leave are cited as strengths. Feedback suggests these provisions are a notable advantage in several offices.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — A broad employee-shareholder base is emphasized, aligning incentives and offering accessible ownership participation. Feedback suggests this ownership mindset adds long-term value for staff.
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Ardian is a world-leading private investment house with assets of US$130bn managed or advised in Europe, North America, and Asia. The company is majority-owned by its employees. It keeps entrepreneurship at its heart and focuses on delivering excellent investment performance to its global investor base. Through its commitment to shared outcomes for all stakeholders, Ardian’s activities fuel individual, corporate and economic growth around the world. Holding close its core values of excellence, loyalty and entrepreneurship, Ardian maintains a truly global network, with more than 850 employees working from fifteen offices across Europe (Frankfurt, Jersey, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, Paris and Zurich), the Americas (New York, San Francisco and Santiago) and Asia (Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul). It manages funds on behalf of round 1,000 clients through five pillars of investment expertise: Fund of Funds, Direct Funds, Infrastructure, Real Estate and Private Debt.
