Principal Jobs in St Louis, MO

Job Description

Job Description

Lewis & Clark Capital (LACC) is the private equity investing arm of a family office (Lewis & Clark Holdings). We take a selective, pragmatic, and operator-focused approach to investing in the lower middle-market, and partner with successful founders and operators to help realize their vision of moving beyond success to significance.

Our approach is defined by 5 pillars :

• Operator Focused : We are a team of experienced operators who actively partner with managers to drive business transformation.
• People First : Talent acquisition and people development has underpinned our prior successes and will continue to be a major focus.
• Patient Capital : We maintain a long-term focus, with a sense of urgency to realize near term objectives.
• Entrepreneurship : We are invested & experienced across a broad swathe of industries and sizes with emphasis on entrepreneurial situations.
• Data as our backbone : We believe the key to scaling is to create robust measurement & reporting, to drive efficient decision making.

We enjoy working with candidates who are intellectually curious, motivated to learn on the job, enjoy rolling up their sleeves and understanding business operations, and are driven to challenge status quo using facts and data.

Job Description :

The Principal’s primary objective is to drive equity value through both an organic and inorganic growth focus. Responsibilities include managing deal flow, conducting acquisition target research and prioritization, leading due diligence efforts, building and maintaining valuation models, supporting transaction documentation, overseeing post-deal integration and supporting existing portfolio companies via strategy creation / affirmation and overseeing management’s actions to drive value.

The ideal candidate will possess exceptional business analytics, financial modeling, strategic thinking, and problem-solving abilities, coupled with demonstrated success as an operator in value creation and M&A transactions. Further, the candidate will thrive in a high pace environment and be adept at managing multiple deals and projects simultaneously. This role requires significant operational experience and the ability to actively engage with portfolio companies as needed.

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