Analyst Private Equity

About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust a Fortune 500 company is a globally recognized awardwinning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the worlds most successful individuals families and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service expertise and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22000 partners we serve the worlds most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

50 South Capital (www.50southcapital) is the private equity investment group within Northern Trust. 50 South Capitals private equity group makes primary secondary and direct coinvestments 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 $15.1 billion in assets and is experiencing rapid growth.
The individual in the two year Analyst position will participate in all of the groups 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.

Key Responsibilities:
Preparing financial analysis in support of the firms due diligence on private equity fund/secondary/direct investment opportunities.
Evaluating a firms strategy and historical track record versus industry benchmarks; tracking industrywide 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.


Qualifications:
Preferably seeking a summer 2025 start date.
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.
Highlydeveloped 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.
Bachelors degree with a major in business finance accounting or economics preferred; also engineering.
01 years of experience with leveraged financeconsulting public accounting corporate finance or private equity.

Salary Range:

Salary range is a good faith estimate of base pay. Northern Trust provides a comprehensive benefits package including retirement benefits 401k and pension) health and welfare benefits (medical dental vision spending accounts and disability) paid time off parental and caregiver leave life & accident insurance and other voluntary and wellbeing benefits. Northern Trust also provides a discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.

Working with Us:

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