Job Description
About the role:
As an Associate in Credit Origination, your primary role is to support the credit origination team in identifying, assessing, and executing credit and lending investment opportunities.
The successful candidate will gain hands on experience of the deal origination process, with exposure to high-volume deal flow. Our platform is unique and our pipeline highly diverse, with off market deals across a range of geographies and asset classes. The role is best suited to candidates with upwards of 2-3 years relevant experience in an investment bank and/or credit fund, private equity fund or big-four accounting firm (advisory).
What will you be doing?
* Perform rigorous financial analysis, including cash flow modeling, due diligence and closing of transactions for specific deal teams.
* Actively participate and collaborate in team meetings to identify and source investment opportunities.
* Evaluate and endorse new capital deployment strategies, demonstrating expertise and sound judgement in evaluating the financial viability of investments.
* Conduct comprehensive market research to identify emerging trends, market dynamics, and potential investment niches within the Real Estate and Credit markets.
* Assist in conducting due diligence on potential investment targets, including reviewing legal documents, conducting site visits, and liaising with external advisors and experts.
* Work with Deal leader to produce and deliver detailed investment memorandums and presentations for the senior management and investment committees.
* Develop and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including co-investors, brokers, banks, and other financial institutions, to source potential investment opportunities.
Required Skills & Experience:
* University educated (or equivalent) demonstrating outstanding academic attainment.
* Approx. 3 years relevant experience in an investment bank, private equity fund, private credit/ hedge fund, Big 4 accounting firms (TS/Advisory preferred)
* Strong financial modeling skills and proficiency in Excel. Knowledge of other financial software is advantageous.
* Effective and engaging communication style, with the ability to convey complex ideas to stakeholders.
* Understanding of Private credit, including distressed debt, special situations, Private Debt, or Real estate assets.
* Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities, with sound judgement and acute attention to detail.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
* Results-orientated mindset with a passion for achieving investment objectives.
* Self-motivated, independent, problem solver with good interpersonal skills
About Arrow
Arrow was founded in 2005 with the ambition of creating Europe's leading vertically integrated Assets Manager. With multi-investment strategies funded by a wide range of sophisticated global investors, we deliver best-in-class risk-adjusted returns across real estate lending, opportunistic credit, and real estate.
To achieve this, we own 19 best-in-class asset management and servicing platforms that enable us to enhance operational efficiencies and maximize the value of underlying assets. We maintain a disciplined investment approach, underwriting insight, and proprietary deal flow. Our advantage allows us to create sustainable value throughout market cycles across a range of alternative asset classes.
As a ‘vertically integrated fund manager’ our interplay between our local servicing platforms and fund management operations is unique in the European real estate lending, credit, and real estate sector – Our 19 local platforms help us identify the best assets to buy at the most attractive price, but their expert knowledge helps us optimise those assets, managing them daily by utilizing local relationships and a strong track record.
Our Origination & Underwriting team specifically blend these local and central resources; centrally, they coordinate deal-flow, This provides us with a unique opportunity, and operating structure to build a diverse set of differentiated, off-market and granular origination capabilities than can be funded by Arrow-managed funds and serviced by Arrow-owned platforms.
Our origination colleagues benefit from working within a challenging and entrepreneurial environment, deploying and servicing capital alongside Tier-1 internal and external investors; Originating and executing investment and servicing opportunities for Arrow Management Services (AMS), acquisitions and joint ventures.
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