Senior Investment Associate, Private Markets, Venture Capital, Dubai

Hanson Search is partnering with a private equity and venture capital investor to appoint a Senior Investment Associate, Private Markets in its Dubai office. The role covers both investment managers and direct or co-investment opportunities, from evaluation and execution through to monitoring.

About the Senior Investment Associate Role in Dubai

Working within the investment team, the Senior Investment Associate will support analysts across offices and present analytic work to the investment team lead. The role also partners with technology experts to build and automate investment processes, giving it a strong focus on AI and data.

Senior Investment Associate Responsibilities

• Investments: Assist in the evaluation, selection, execution and monitoring of private markets investments across investment managers and direct or co-investment opportunities, supporting the due diligence process. Contribute to financial modelling and investment analysis, documenting meetings with existing and prospective managers, companies, co-investors and industry specialists. Gather and maintain the necessary data while conducting quantitative and qualitative assessments of investment opportunities.
• Technology: Partner with technology experts to build and automate investment processes enabled by cutting-edge technology. The focus is on enhancing investment analysis, portfolio monitoring, data management and reporting capabilities.
• Proactive Research: Maintain investment pipelines to track prospective managers, companies, co-investment opportunities and emerging areas of opportunity across private markets. Support this work with research reports and market maps.
• Investment Due Diligence: Support diligence processes across investment managers and direct investment opportunities, collecting information and performing targeted analyses. Participate in due diligence meetings and reference calls, then synthesise key findings. Assess investment strategies, manager capabilities, company fundamentals, market dynamics, competitive positioning, growth opportunities and investment risks, while running and owning the financial modelling.
• Investment Recommendation: Assist in producing materials for the investment recommendation process. These include investment criteria scoring, IC memos and decks, checklists, presentations and other materials backing the team’s final recommendation.
• Portfolio Monitoring: Create and maintain models to project investment exposures, performance outcomes, liquidity profiles and portfolio risks. Monitor manager investments and direct or co-investment holdings through ongoing quantitative and qualitative analysis. Use third-party software and data platforms such as DealCloud, PitchBook, Mirador, Addepar, Burgiss, Cambridge Associates and SharePoint as needed.
• Reporting: Assist in the preparation of portfolio reviews, investment committee materials, performance updates, risk analyses and other reporting materials for internal stakeholders.
• Data Process Improvement: Assist in driving quality and process improvements across data analysis and management, including data integrity.
• Team: Coordinate with and support analysts across offices, reviewing their workstreams and providing guidance on investment analyses. Ensure high-quality deliverables while representing and owning analytic work product with the investment team lead.
• Strategic Projects: Assist in executing special project requests on an as-needed basis.

Private Markets Investment Experience and Skills

• Experience evaluating investment opportunities and conducting due diligence, including support for investment recommendation processes.
• A proven ability to build and interpret financial models and investment analyses.
• The ability to synthesise complex information and communicate findings clearly through written materials and presentations.
• A demonstrated interest in using AI and technology to enhance investment research, analysis, workflow automation and decision-making.

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Hanson Search Group is a global talent consultancy providing executive search, recruitment and leadership advisory services. Built on more than twenty years of trusted relationships, we operate as a connected global platform of specialist practices with expert consultants embedded in key markets. Our specialist practices include private equity executive search, where we partner with organisations to appoint the leaders driving their investment strategy.