Metis Search Looking for Special Situations Portfolio Management Senior Associate at New York, United States Full Time

Overview

One of the top Special Situations Funds are looking to hire a Portfolio Management Senior Associate. The fund is managed by a highly specialized team, backed by vast resources and robust governance. Their alternative strategy is designed to deliver uncorrelated returns to traditional asset classes. The team have deployed over $2 billion in recent years and have diverse sector coverage, utilizing their network of Senior Investors.

Their Special Situations team continues to experience strong growth and success and is looking to expand their Portfolio Management team at the Associate / Senior Associate level. The Asset Management team builds robust relationships with portfolio companies utilizing a customized process to learn and monitor the intricacies of a business’ operations and key performance indicators, with the goal of maximization of return for the firm’s investment portfolio. In addition to investment and credit monitoring experience, Associate candidates will be expected to have strong analytical and modelling skills, business judgment, and the maturity to own and manage multiple monitoring relationships from initial funding to exit.

The Requirements

• Candidates must have 5+ years of experience working in corporate restructuring, private credit, private equity, or special situations, specifically with hands-on experience in directly managing workouts, restructurings, and crises management with borrowers and company managers.
• Interpersonal skills and maturity to communicate effectively with lower middle market management teams and extract actionable intelligence from complex situations;
• Advanced Excel Skills: Ability to build operational and financial models, correlation, valuation, runoff, liquidation, and various other types of analyses with limited supervision;
• An entrepreneurial mindset and the capability to manage multiple complex situations in parallel, understanding the operating requirements of private businesses during growth, evolution and potentially turnaround phases;
• Ability to understand and negotiate complex credit and other legal agreements;
• Advanced familiarity with capital structure and corporate debt including: Leveraged Finance; Restructuring; Structured Finance; and ABS;
• Undergraduate degree required, with a record of academic achievement. Concentration in Finance, Business, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, or Sciences preferred;
• Authorization to work in the United States

This role presents the chance for someone to leverage their experience to join as an Associate/Senior Associate. Please submit your resume to be considered.