Lead Analyst ( Private Capital)

• Own project scope, timelines, and resource planning across multiple engagements, ensuring high-quality deliverables that exceed client expectations.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for client teams, building trusted advisor relationships with principals, partners, and senior stakeholders.

• Lead commercial, financial, and operational due diligence and valuation engagements for private equity clients,supporting buy-side, sell-side,IPO, and post-transaction value realization efforts.

• Collaborate with senior leadership toidentifyinvestment risks, growth opportunities, and value creation levers to maximize client impact.

• Lead, mentor, and develop junior analysts and consultants, fostering a high-performance and collaborative team environment.

• Deploy advanced analytics, financial models, statistical techniques, and structured research methods to solve complex business and investment problems.

• Conduct in-depth market, financial, and operational analyses to support investment theses and portfolio decisions.

• Prepare clear, concise, and insight-driven reports and presentations for internal leadership and client stakeholders.

• Support business development initiatives by contributing to proposals, pitch materials, and market intelligence.

• Facilitate client workshops, interviews, and executive presentations to communicate findings and recommendations effectively.

• Contribute to talent development initiatives, including recruitment, onboarding, and training.

• Stay current on market trends, industry dynamics, and private equity best practices to continuously enhance service offerings.

• Ensure adherence to firm methodologies, quality standards, and regulatory requirements across all engagements.

Education:

• Bachelors degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Science, or a related field.

• CA / CFA qualification or candidates with strong analyst experience are strongly preferred.

• MBA, MS, or certifications in analytics, finance, or strategy are a plus.

Experience & Skills:

• 6+ years of overall experience in analytics, consulting, or private capitalrelated roles, with 2+ years of exposure to market research, due diligence, or transaction-related work.

• Strongproficiencyin financial statement analysis, valuation techniques, market research, and due diligence methodologies.

• Advancedproficiencyin MS Excel and PowerPoint, with comfort building structured models and presentations.

• Pythonand SQLexperience is a strong plusbut not mandatory

• Experience working with specialized financial and market data sources such as Capital IQ, Bloomberg, Factiva, or similar platforms.

• Proven ability to manage complex projects across the deal lifecycle (deal sourcing, due diligence, portfolio monitoring, exit planning).

• Excellent client-facing skills withdemonstratedability to build credibility and influence senior stakeholders.

• Strong leadership experience managing teams, reviewing analytical work, and driving execution excellence.

• Experience conducting customer and market research using interviews, surveys, focus groups, and secondary sources.

• Exposure to multi-sector business research, preferably in a global consulting or professional services environment.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex insights clearly and concisely.

• Comfort working with large, complex datasets and applying data-driven decision-making approaches.

• Familiarity with emerging technologies (e.g., GenAI tools) is a plus.

• Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive, collaborative approach to problem-solving and practice growth.

• Willingness to travel asrequiredto meet client and project needs.