Associate Investment Officer (Funds and Co-Investments)

As Associate Investment Officer you will be responsible for a portfolio of private equity/infrastructure fund investments during the disinvestment and liquidation phases. This involves client relationship management, monitoring, annual reviews, event resolution, and divestment of EIB positions including disposal of funds sub-portfolios on secondary markets.

Responsibilities

• Maintain close relationship with fund managers and co-investors in your portfolio with a view to anticipate portfolio evolution.
• Actively represent the Bank in non-executive advisory committees/governance bodies of your portfolio.
• Ensure a sound and timely transaction management by formulating, recommending, and processing internally event resolutions and divestment proposals and negotiating and implementing event resolutions and divestments with external counterparts and advisors.
• Contribute to the coordination and execution of secondary sales of individual investments or sub-portfolios in line with the Bank’s strategies and procedures.
• Independently conduct sound and timely reviews of your portfolio (performance reviews, valuations, scorings).
• Review and implement updates to financial monitoring policies and pro-actively formulate proposals to improve systems and procedures.
• Contribute to periodic reporting produced by the Division in respect of its portfolio.
• Share lessons learnt within the team and across the Bank.

Requirements

• University degree (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor), preferably in Law, Finance or Economics.
• At least 3 years of relevant professional experience in a similar role, preferably exposed to private equity/infrastructure funds or co-investments, on the investment, monitoring and/or advisory side.
• Good understanding of international accounting standards and valuation methodologies.
• Understanding of the EIB’s mission, organisation and activities.
• Knowledge of the standard computer tools, in particular, proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent knowledge of English.
• A good command of French and/or German would be preferred.

Skills

• Private Equity
• Infrastructure Fund Investment
• Investment Monitoring
• Client Relationship Management
• Portfolio Management
• Fund Valuation Methodologies
• International Accounting Standards
• Investment Advisory
• Disinvestment Management
• Liquidation Management
• Secondary Market Transactions
• MS Excel
• MS PowerPoint

Languages

English, French, German