2025 Private Equity Analyst

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.

Position Overview:

An Analyst of StepStone Private Equity will be focused on supporting the local Private Equity team in its investment activities. The role will involve work across primaries, secondaries, and co-investments in a buyout, venture, or growth equity setting.

StepStone prides itself on the Firm’s collegial atmosphere, encouraging team-building initiatives and a collaborative approach. The ideal candidate will possess a strong academic record, excellent quantitative skills, high quality writing skills, and a positive, team-oriented attitude.

Essential Job Functions:

• Perform market research using publicly available information and proprietary databases to identify, quantify and analyze macroeconomic trends across a variety of industry sectors

• Interpret financial analyses prepared by target fund managers, including investment track records and financial statement analysis; prepare valuation analyses on private companies using comparable public companies and precedent transactions

• Support Senior Investment team on sourcing and managing the inflow of investment opportunities

• Assess marketing and supporting materials of prospective fund managers to identify key value drivers and important areas for further investigation

• Conduct reference calls with senior executives to gather insights and information regarding the style and effectiveness of target fund managers

• Form an independent opinion about the attractiveness of a sector or investment opportunity

• Construct an argument around an opinion and efficiently communicate that argument both verbally and in written materials; be able to defend position in a team environment, including Investment Committee meetings

• Use creativity to source and analyze data and to test hypotheses regarding attractiveness of specific sectors and investment opportunities

• Analyze and monitor the performance of the Firm's existing fund managers and underlying portfolio companies; prepare for and participate in meetings with assigned managers, and conduct on-going due diligence

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be able to work legally in the U.S. without requiring visa sponsorship now or in the future

• Undergraduate student graduating anywhere from December 2024 through June 2025, or have 1-2 years of private equity/principal investment experience

• GPA of 3.2 or higher

• High proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

• Demonstrable analytical capabilities, including strong quantitative/modeling skills

• Team player and outstanding work ethic

Salary: $80,000

The salary range is an estimate of pay for this position. Actual pay may vary depending on job-related factors that can include location, education, skill, and experience. The salary range does not include any benefits or other forms of possible compensation that may be available to employees.

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.

Join us

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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