Job DescriptionTransaction Evaluation and Execution
- Work closely with members of the investment team to evaluate, execute and manage investments in the very best cybersecurity startups globally
- Build a network of early stage investors, practitioners and thought leaders in the cybersecurity ecosystem
- Maintain the investment pipeline and proactively flag companies of interest for the investment team to follow up
- Research and synthesize the cybersecurity startup landscape, market trends, and investment opportunities to support the Investment Team in developing investment theses and identifying winning companies
- Perform comparable companies analysis to inform the Investment Teams’ view of valuation parameters during negotiation processes
- Build and manage financial models to identify key value drivers and underpin expected returns analysis feeding into Investment Committee Memorandums
- Support crafting clear and concise Investment Committee papers to recommend potential investment opportunities including the investment thesis, alignment with ISTARI’s mission, competitive landscaping, expected returns and key risks and mitigants
Post-Investment Monitoring & Value Creation Initiatives
- Maintain and update financial models to reflect changes in the external operating environment and the portfolio companies’ actual performance and trajectory
- Identify opportunities to improve operations of the portfolio company with particular emphasis on where the ISTARI model can provide differentiated value
- Support Investment Directors in interrogating Board and company reporting to identify positive developments and flag areas for intervention as required
Candidate profile
- Ideal candidate background and experience
- Minimum of 2 years of prior work experience in investment banking or at a top-tier consultancy (prior private equity or venture capital experience a plus but not required)
- Understanding of and experience with growth equity transactions
Key skills
- Strong financial modelling skills, familiarity with financial statement analysis and accounting and finance fundamentals
- Ability to work independently to analyse, interrogate and manipulate financial forecasts
- High degree of commercial acumen, able to assess financial information against strategic priorities, operational realities and ISTARI’s investment thesis
- High degree of comfort with presenting and interacting with senior stakeholders across organisations (e.g. ISTARI, ISTARI’s main shareholder, portfolio companies, potential investee companies)
- Able to work cross-culturally in fast-paced, unstructured team environments