Investment Intern (m/f/d) – Milan
Interns in the investment teamwork as a full member of the team together with the investment professionals, and thus get to be involved in all aspects of a private equity deal. During your internship you will be challenged to develop your financial-, technical-, and personal-skills by working on potential and live transactions.
Responsibilities
- Research and analysis on markets, industries and companies
- Support teams in analysing potential acquisitions
- Participation in all aspects of the due diligence process
- Preparation of materials for investment decisions
- Support in the monitoring of portfolio companies
- Preparation of potential portfolio exits
Profile
The Team in Milan is looking for interns who are available for 4 to 6 months. Start date on a rolling basis
- You are completing or have recently completed a technical, scientific, economical of financial degree, with above average academic achievements
- Strong analytical skills
- Prior work experience/internships in private equity or related fields (investment banking, strategy consulting, transaction services)
- Genuine interest in the private equity industry
- Highly ambitious, entrepreneurial mindset, strong communication skills and strong teamwork ability
- Fluent in Italian and English. Any additional European language is a plus, particularly Spanish
Our Offer
- A competitive compensation package
- Gaining experience in an international business environment characterised by a growing and ambitious team
- The opportunity to implement your ideas in live deals and create tangible business value while operating in a flat structure with limited hierarchy. Your will be working in direct contact with our Managing Director & Head of Southern Europe
- Dynamic career development in a successful and rapidly growing investment company
ECO3 (formerly Agfa Offset Solutions) is a leading global supplier of prepress systems to the printing industry. Commercial, newspaper and packaging printers rely on us for the most extensive range of integrated solutions, from printing plates and computer-to-plate systems over workflow and print management software to pressroom chemicals. Our solutions are designed to deliver higher productivity, lower costs and greener outcomes at every stage of the print process.
ECO3 is headquartered in Belgium with production and research centers in Germany, Brazil, China, and Israel. With over 1600 colleagues, we are commercially active worldwide through sales organizations and dealers in more than 30 countries.
As the Global Head of HR you will demonstrate strategic and leadership abilities but also thrive in a busy, hands-on environment, utilizing a consultative approach, coupled with subject matter expertise across HR operations; process transformation; change management and data / analytic based methodologies. The position is based in Wiesbaden or Antwerpen and requires regular travel to other operational locations.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding ECO3 business activities and ambitions, strategically, commercially and culturally
- Partnering with the leadership team to establish appropriate strategic Human Resource programs, aligned to the overall business strategy and where required, unique to their global location and translate this into an operational plan
- Ensuring ECO3 has the organization structure and management capability to achieve its business objectives, including robust management succession plans
- Building a focused, highly qualified and motivated HR team to provide the capability to deliver on the agreed strategy
- Developing and executing an internal communication strategy to drive engagement and ensure our people are kept informed
- Developing tools to enable the business to attract, select and retain top talent
- Driving performance management initiatives, including customized development of high potentials and senior leaders, and a robust performance management framework that supports an agile working environment, providing relevant data to support its success
- Developing and implementing effective people policies and procedures to manage performance, mitigating legal risks and driving employee engagement throughout the organization
- Measuring, monitoring and holding the business leaders accountable for HR service delivery alignment, performance, measurement and quality
- Maintaining a broad knowledge of strategic functional best practices so that the business can benefit from new market trends and developments within the HR profession
- Managing an HR budget ensuring services delivered support the business deliverables
- Leading on the people element of any future M&A activity
Qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s degree in human resources management or similar relevant qualification and evidence of continuous personal development to ensure learning is up to date
- Experience managing large-scale, global projects in support of organizational change efforts
- Strong communication skills with an ability to clarify problems and articulate solutions across different cultures
- Excellent leadership and customer interface and relationship management skills
- Demonstrable experience in delivering large business change, including culture change and restructuring. Previous M&A experience would be advantageous
- Extensive experience of the formulation, implementation, delivery and development of HR and L&D strategy, in a commercially focused environment
- Considerable senior management experience, in a global, fast-moving business
- Drive and resilience
- Business fluent in English
What ECO3 offers:
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship
- The opportunity to influence positive change across our global network
- A great team of passionate, like-minded colleagues to work with
Contact
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
For a few current and prospective mid-market portfolio companies (producing industry / app. €200-400Mio. revenue) in Western-/ Central Europe we are looking for a Chief Financial Officer (m/f/d).
The CFO will have responsibility for leading and managing the company’s financial function. He/she will be a strategic advisor and business partner to the top management team on financial and business issues. As CFO, this person will manage the company’s balance sheet, capital structure, and overall reporting and control processes as well as will be responsible for cash management, control, audit, financial planning and analysis, tax, treasury, accounting. As a key figure within a carve-out the CFO will build up a best-in-class finance organization and implement efficient strategies, processes and structures with a strong strategic and business focus. In conjunction with the CEO, the CFO will be expected to develop and manage the implementation of a pragmatic strategic plan that will continue to improve short-term results as well as position the company for profitable long-term global growth and shareholder value creation. The CFO will be expected to perform his/her duties in a manner that balances strategic thinking with hands-on and engaged operational and functional leadership.
Responsibilities
- Setting Strategy: Work in partnership with the CEO, the senior management team and the investors to drive the growth and performance of the business to achieve maximum value creation. Contribute to the strategic direction of the overall business through the creation and delivery of effective business plans.
- Treasury/Cash Management: Develop financial models to forecast the Company’s cash/liquidity position. (13-week cash flows). Enable corporate strategy through global capital and cash management, treasury operations, and risk management. Manage relationships with banks and credit institutions across the global footprint.
- Financial Reporting & Control: Ensure the accuracy, integrity and timeliness of financial reporting and ensure compliance with any relevant reporting standards. Maintain appropriate internal financial controls and risk management processes across all operations.
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Oversee the budget process, collecting the inputs, and comparing the company’s actual performance against the budgeted targets. Ensure a strong control on costs and cash, whilst continuing to enable the growth of the business including the development of a rolling liquidity plan. Develop a robust forecasting system.
- Financial Analysis & Performance Management: Understand the company’s business model and translate the operational metrics into key performance indicators. Challenge the business plans and ongoing financial performance, and interpreting information quickly to ensure that action is agreed and carried out effectively.
- Growth acceleration: Support the potential identification, assessment, and execution of investment opportunities, including strategic partnerships, acquisitions and divestments. Manage the financial integration of merged or acquired entities and build best-in-class scalable Performance Management systems and processes.
- Financial Relationships & External Relationships: Establish and maintain strong relationships with the investors, providing accurate and relevant analysis which special focus on Free Cashflow, Net Working Capital and EBITDA. Develop banking reporting to present compliance with formal debt agreements (covenants).
- Organization Leadership: Recruit, assess, develop, and lead talent in finance as well as across the business to build a world-class organization and deliver business results. Ensure there is a comprehensive and effective succession and talent management strategy within the finance organization.
Qualifications required
CFO Leadership: Finance executive with more than 15 years of experience in a producing industry and a proven track record in finance, accounting, controlling and M&A processes, including post-merger integration and financing. Proven experience as CFO in a mid-sized company with min. €200Mio. revenue.
Industrial and International Background: Experience in the industrial manufacturing sector within a global organization. Ideally track record in cross-culture and cross-country working.
Private Equity Experience: Experience in a Private Equity environment with a proven track record of successful sponsor interactions. Carve-Out experience is considered a plus.
Educational Background: Excellent academic background, successfully completed Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Business Administration or Economics. Fluent in English, German is a plus.
Further capabilities:
- Commercially minded and technically highly qualified CFO with excellent analytical skills.
- Combining strategic vision and strategic thinking with excellence in operational execution.
- Strong business acumen.
- Strong drive for performance – sets and executes stretch targets.
- Demonstrates a sense of urgency and instills this in others – values speed of action.
- Commitment to quality and compliance.
- Capability to influence different stakeholders by demonstrating competence and confidence, being a good listener, using fact-based persuasion, dedication and persistence as appropriate to the audience.
- Ability to develop valuable collaborations and build strong relations within a complex environment.
- Ability to develop team members and generate high performance results.
- Fostering teamwork and collaboration with the broader team; excellent communication skills, positive can-do attitude.
- High energy level; ability to drive an organization and to create passion and inspiration.
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
For our portfolio company MUVIQ (formerly known as Dayco Propulsion Solutions), a leading supplier of power transmission products to commercial vehicle and off-highway vehicle OEMs as well as light vehicle OEMs, we are looking for a DACH based Global Head of Procurement (m/f/d).
MUVIQ provides solutions for conventional and hybrid technologies, which include tensioners, dampers, pulleys, and decouplers. Headquartered in Italy, MUVIQ is a global business with 8 manufacturing facilities strategically located in every major geography, serving 50+ of the largest global and regional OEMs with technologically advanced value-add products.
Your primary objective will be to lead the procurement team in all aspects, including vision and strategy, planning, day-to-day activities, business and market interaction, policy and process compliance, governance and people management. By working closely with MUVIQ leadership team and the production site managers and reporting to the MUVIQ CEO, you will develop and implement a strategic agenda for procurement that ensures the company’s success.
Your key responsibilities:
- Full accountability for the overall management of the entire spend (more than USD 300 m). The spend includes direct material (e.g. steel, cast iron, aluminum, bearings) as well as all indirect spend (e.g. CAPEX, MRO, logistics, professional services).
- Strong contribution to the Value Engineering agenda (e.g. to counteract inflation pressure) in collaboration with the engineering teams, delivering on targets, managing performance, identifying and implementation of initiatives by utilizing a corresponding program management office.
- Identifying, qualifying and developing a new supplier base to establish regional and technological best-sourcing and cost-down activities.
- Ability to give confidence to stakeholders, customers and suppliers at the highest level, resulting in delivery to plan and targets for the entire procurement.
- Support the governance and structure of the procurement operations, including cross-functional collaboration and effective prioritization, deployment, control and monitoring of spend across the relevant spend areas.
- Support the establishment with a new way of working demonstrating the value of procurement, setting standards, reinforcing the enabling culture and approach across the organization.
- Show presence in the plants, interact with plant managers and drive main initiatives with the local procurement teams. Supervise supplier quality audits (VDA, IATF 16949).
- Coordinate MUVIQ’s ESG efforts.
Your profile:
- Educational background: Master’s degree in engineering or business administration
- Proven track record in automotive procurement strategy development, stakeholder & supplier management, supplier development, business acumen (financial & commercial)
- Global perspective on sourcing and dealing with diverse markets
- Proven track record in people-, project and change management
- Born negotiator & leader, proven self-motivator who sets clear direction and priorities
- Fostering a collaborative supplier-customer culture & multi- stakeholder partnership
- Building stakeholder confidence and managing communication effectively in a multi-organization business environment
- Ability to influence senior management, teams and individuals across multiple cultures, disciplines, hierarchies and geographies to drive common solutions
- Ability to inspire and motivate team through sharing and communicating vision
Our offer
- A professional environment with a positive mindset and a ‘can do’ attitude, continuously striving for excellence.
- Enthusiastic, committed, and skilled global team, striving for sustainability, efficiency, and customer centricity
- An open company culture that stimulates exchanging experience, ideas and entrepreneurship.
- An attractive and performance orientated package
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
In this position, you will work within the Debt Financing & Capital Markets’ team and learn the broad financing business within a private equity. The Debt Financing & Capital Markets’ Team works on new (acquisition) financings for our Private Equity strategy (AURELIUS European Opportunities IV, AURELIUS Equity Opportunities and AURELIUS Wachstumskapital) as well as refinancings for our portfolio companies.
You will be based in Amsterdam and work across offices in Europe and the US as well as with our various portfolio companies in an international setting.
Responsibilities
In this position you will work closely with all members of the DF&CM team by providing substantive support in the financing of M&A transactions as well as the (re)financing of our portfolio companies. You will be acting as contact person for financing partners, consultants and advisors while working hand in hand with the Investment Team, the Operations Team and other AURELIUS teams. In this position, you will learn and support on a range of financing structures including asset-based lending and cashflow financing solutions.
- Structuring and Analysis: Debt capacity analysis; Review of potential financing structures and identification of relevant lenders
- Due diligence: Review and comment on due diligence materials; Coordinate external due diligence processes
- Financial Modelling and Preparation of Materials: Financial Model for lenders; Model relevant covenants and debt structures; Prepare lender materials including lender memorandum
- Execution: Coordinate outreach to lenders; Support the team with the documentation process and negotiations (from term sheet to full documentation); Work closely with external advisors and help manage various workstreams
- Investment process: Support the preparation of internal committee papers; Participate in the investment process and discussions
- Portfolio management: Monitoring of existing financings in collaboration with the management of the individual portfolio companies
Qualifications required
- Master’s degree with a major in business, finance, science or engineering
- 1 to 3 years of professional experience in corporate or investment banking (acquisition or leveraged finance), debt advisory or private equity
- Strong credit analysis skills
- Strong analytical and technical skills, including financial modelling and power point presentations
- Initial structuring know-how of financing solutions
- Knowledge of different forms of financings (cash flow & asset-based lending, debt capital markets)
- Basic knowledge of standard financing and collateral agreements as well as key financial figures and other covenants
- Relevant process/project management experience in the context of M&A transactions / in a deal environment
- Fluent in English; Other languages an advantage (including Dutch or German)
- Excellent MS-Office skills (especially Excel and PowerPoint)
Benefits
- An attractive success-related and performance-based salary package
- A highly motivated and interdisciplinary work environment with flat hierarchies
- International and dynamic team setting
- Impact-orientated atmosphere with long-term prospects
Please apply online including CV and cover letter as well as any additional relevant application documents (references etc.). Please state your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
What you’ll do
- Manage operations and financials of private equity funds and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV), be part of a team working closely with our CFO
- Actively support closings of investment deals in collaboration with deal teams, legal and tax.
- Forster seamless communication and coordination with internal departments, including deal teams, legal, investor relations, as well as external parties and portfolio companies.
- Manage and review work of external fund administrators and ensure high quality and timely deliverables.
- Review and support preparation of quarterly reports and investor capital accounts
- Monitor liquidity and initiate capital calls / distributions.
- Close collaboration with accounting to ensure transactions are properly reflected.
- Work with external auditors to facilitate efficient and timely audit completion.
- Coordinate other external experts such as tax and legal.
- Actively participate in the development and enhancement of processes and tools, contributing to team-specific and firm-wide initiatives
- Manage ad hoc processes as required, demonstrating flexibility and agility in responding to evolving needs
What we’re looking for
- 3- 8 years of relevant experience in a Big 4 audit firm or private equity firm.
- University degree in finance, accounting or related field; further professional qualifications (ACCA, CPA, CFA) preferred.
- Excellent communication skills in English, proficiency in additional language such as German or French is a plus.
- Experience with Luxembourgish private equity funds (closed-ended).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a solid understanding of international accounting standards and Lux GAAP.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, with exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills.
- Have a personal drive and strive for excellence, willing to develop and learn. A person who walks the extra mile, takes responsibility and wants to deliver high quality.
What we offer
- Unique, challenging and independent role, managing various areas related to fund operations.
- Work with an inspiring team of professionals and be part of a fast growing, dynamic and successful investment firm.
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package.
- Be part of an international team with close collaboration across multiple departments.
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
What you’ll do
- Contract management among various jurisdictions and offices in close collaboration with management.
- Preparation and review of contracts (loan agreements, set-off agreements, service agreements, SPAs etc.);
- Reorganisations of companies and planning of acquisition structures together with M&A lawyers;
- You will support corporate bodies by reviewing or drafting contracts and agreements, or also resolutions and shareholders’ general meetings, including notices, proxies, and minutes;
- Support with simple due diligence issues – chain of title, etc;
- Correspondence with notaries, external lawyers, courts and authorities;
- Dealing with issues relating to money laundering prevention;
- Supporting Know Your Customer processes, maintain registers and support other compliance areas.
What we’re looking for
- University Degree in Law
- Fluent in English and German, French will be considered an asset.
- Proficient understanding of private equity and real estate investment structures, legal, and administrative requirements.
- Minimum of 2-5 years of in a similar role with relevant experience, knowledge in the Fund industry is an advantage.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, with exceptional organisational and prioritisation skills.
- Quality-driven and structured with attention to details, minded with a “can do” attitude, effective and proactive.
- Personal drive for excellence, willing to develop and learn. A person who walks the extra mile, takes responsibility and wants to deliver high quality.
What we offer
- Unique, challenging and independent role, managing various legal areas related to private equity investments and operations.
- Work with an inspiring team of professionals and be part of a fast growing, dynamic and successful investment firm.
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package.
- An international team with close collaboration across multiple departments.
- Dynamic and open-minded team, diverse culture, regular team events.
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
To further strengthen our ESG practice, we are looking for you at our London location as soon as possible.
Responsibilities
- Develop sustainability strategies and roadmaps for portfolio companies and support them throughout their individual sustainability/ ESG journeys
- Identify value creation opportunities and conduct ESG DDs in close collaboration with the investment team
- Develop the firm´s sustainability and ESG strategy further and support ESG tasks on firm level (e.g. investor reporting, develop ESG trainings, organize roundtables)
- Monitor legal framework conditions, especially in the UK, and support portfolio companies in this matter
- Manage sustainability and ESG projects independently and be the key contact for portfolio management teams, the investment team and several other internal stakeholders
Profile
- Several years of experience in sustainability/ESG gained in either management consulting or an inhouse ESG position, ideally within the private equity sector
- ESG DD experience
- Sufficient experience and stature to be credible, working independently with portfolio management teams and the investment team; to build a strong external network
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to analyse and use data to highlight trends and communicate data in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent project management skills and experience of effectively managing multiple work streams spanning multiple stakeholders at all levels of seniority
- Fluent in English, basic knowledge in German is an advantage
- Willingness to travel to portfolio companies
Our Offer
- Short decision-making processes, flat hierarchies in a dynamic team
- A great deal of creative freedom and long-term prospects
- Interesting and challenging field
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.
Due to the growth in our portfolio, we are strengthening our Operations Team in the USA.
AURELIUS’ Task Force is a close-knit team of advisors with deep functional expertise and long-standing management experience. They support value generation in portfolio companies through effective and hands-on project and change management in the areas of Procurement, Operations, Sales/Marketing, IT and Finance.
Responsibilities
- Lead the IT due diligence process in connection with the acquisition of companies, particularly the creation of IT carve-out scenarios, red-flag reports, and estimation of the associated costs
- Coordinate implementation of IT carve-out projects after the acquisition of new company investments
- Coordinate IT transformation projects during or holding time, e.g., ERP modernization
- Coach business and IT stakeholders of the portfolio companies to optimize IT processes as well as project methodology, roles, and deliverables
- Analyse poorly defined problems, moderate solution finding process and suggest solution alternatives
- Support software license transfer agreements
- Build network of internal and external project staff and service providers, staff projects and oversee deliverables of external and internal team members
- Build local IT Practice team with 1-2 (Senior) Managers
Prerequisites
- You are an experienced IT all-rounder with knowledge in several IT areas e.g., IT Strategy and Governance, application and infrastructure management, service delivery or IT-security
- Successfully completed studies in computer science, natural sciences, engineering, or economics
- At least 10 years of relevant professional experience, ideally in the context of an IT consulting, IT company or as ITlLead in the Industry
- Experience in IT projects management in the field of IT carve-out, M&A, IT transformation or development of IT landscapes or applications as stream lead or sub-project lead
- You work in a consulting-oriented manner and are able to use your broad knowledge in a wide variety of situations
- Excellent communication combined with strong analytical skills
- Entrepreneurial thinking and acting, implementation strength and business/commercial acumen
- Ability to travel on a weekly basis (3-4 days on site)
- Fluent in English, other language skills are welcome
Our offer
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
- The opportunity to implement your own ideas and create real entrepreneurial added value
- Flat hierarchies with very fast decision making
- End-to-end view of the portfolio companies through their Aurelius lifecycle from due diligence to divestment
- Dynamic career development in a very successful and rapidly growing investment company
Please apply online including all relevant application documents and stating your earliest possible starting date and salary expectation.
We are strengthening our Finance and Accounting Team in Luxembourg and are looking for you.
Responsibilities
- Managing the day-to-day transactions such as postings, reconciliations, receivables and payables
- Preparing of management accounts on a monthly basis, including accruals and deferrals
- Knowledge of German HGB, IFRS and Lux GAAP is a must, other GAAPs advantageous (Malta, Netherlands, Italy, Sweden)
- Preparation of annual financial statements of holding and service companies
- Compiling of various financial reports for internal and external use
- Contact person for tax advisors and auditors
- Preparation and submission of VAT returns
- Preparation of invoices, support budgeting process and performing interest calculations
- Assisting in specific assignments and projects as assigned by management
- General administrative tasks and any other duties which may be required from time to time
Profile
- University degree and successful completion of further accounting certifications (ACCA, Luxembourgish Accountant or similar)
- At least 3-5 years of professional experience as an accountant
- Relevant experience in the annual financial statement process according to German HGB, Lux GAAP and other local GAAPs (and tax law) as well as VAT returns
- Understanding of improvements of existing processes
- Good knowledge of WORKDAY / DATEV, MS Office and Sage BoB advantageous
- You are fluent in written and spoken German and English, French desirable
- Analytical thinking, independent work-style and initiative, ability to work in a team and under pressure, high degree of accuracy and diligence, affinity for numbers
Our Offer
- An attractive and performance-related remuneration package
- Flat hierarchy promoting rapid decision-making processes
- Dynamic career development in a successful and strongly growing investment company
- Be part of an international team with close collaboration across multiple departments
- Dynamic and open-minded team, diverse culture, regular team events
- Complimentary drinks, coffee, tea, and fresh fruit
Please apply online including all relevant application documents (cover letter, CV and certificates), and stating your earliest possible starting date, preferred working hours and salary expectation.