Senior Associate - Private Equity

Senior Associate - Private Equity

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

StepStone Group LP (StepStone) seeks an Associate for our Private Equity team at its NYC location.

Essential Job Functions

• Engage broadly in various areas of private equity, focusing on secondaries (as well as buyout, special sits, etc.), and contributing to all aspects of the secondary deal process.
• Utilize expertise as an investment professional to source, execute and complete successful private equity deals within our entrepreneurial, collaborative, culture, with a high deal volume. Consider how our private equity deals link together and will relatedly craft creative deal structuring.
• Perform private equity deal sourcing / screening and conduct due diligence on private equity secondary and direct investments, leveraging the firm's global network.
• Lead evaluation and analysis of secondary transactions assets across stages (i.e., buyout, venture, growth equity, etc.), industries and geographies.
• Work with outside groups, including fund managers, company management teams and investment bankers, as well as internally across groups, to perform due diligence, find new deal opportunities and execute transactions.
• Conduct financial due diligence by utilizing advanced financial and mathematical models. Perform market research to identify, quantify and analyze macroeconomic trends across a variety of sectors.
• Perform investment monitoring analyses using maintained proprietary transaction and market intelligence.
• Prepare and present financial due diligence materials and Investment Committee memos to senior private equity leadership.
• Construct an expert opinion around various investment opportunities and efficiently communicate it both verbally and in written materials, with the ability to defend analysis in a team environment, including in Investment Committee meetings.
• Negotiate / coordinate the private equity deal closing / structuring process and perform post-close monitoring of existing investments.
• Manage relationships with private equity sponsors, intermediaries, advisors (financial, legal, commercial) and other investors. Develop, coach and lead deal teams, mentoring junior associates and analysts, serving as a resource while they manage their workflows.

Education And / Or Work Experience Requirements

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Two (2) years of required experience must include :

One (1) year of required experience must include :

Salary : $180,000

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.

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.