POSTED: July 15, 2026
TITLE: Investment Manager
REQUIREMENTS: Master’s Degree with a major in Business Administration from a U.S. business school; 3 years of Investment Banking experience.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS: Exceptional skills in MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
JOB DUTIES: Thesis ideation and development, including analyzing market trends and finding expansion opportunities, identifying and evaluating new prospective investment opportunities. (Time allocation: 35%) Build value creation plans and develop theses based on analysis of dislocations or white spaces in the market. Review Company financial reports to identify ways to reduce costs. Evaluate new potential investment opportunities, including the preliminary analysis of industry dynamics, competitive dynamics, regulatory landscape, historical financial performance, and transaction-specific risks and opportunities. Review and prepare mark-ups of Non-Disclosure Agreements/Confidentiality Agreements, collaborating with legal counsel on various deal-related documents such as Letters of Intent, Purchase Agreements, etc. Review the financial audits and financial statements for the extended historical period; perform financial analysis. Apply adjustments to historical financials and confirm that the pro forma level of earnings of the Company are recurring in nature. Understand the nature of revenue; identify revenue drivers. Conduct a detailed unit-level analysis of profitability (including analyzing services provided, customers served, vendor relationships, and estimated market share). Review the security of intellectual property, including patents, pending patents, know-how, and trademarks, collaborating with legal counsel if needed. Understand the industry dynamics at play, competitive position, the level and degree of competition, as well as the degree to which substitutes are available to its customers. Review terms of major contracts with customers, suppliers, employees, and affiliates. Review the Company’s licenses and permits in detail (if applicable) and confirm compliance with all state and federal rules and regulations, collaborating with legal counsel if needed. Supporting transaction execution and monitoring financial details to ensure legal requirements are met. (Time allocation: 35%) Prepare financial statements, business activity reports, and forecasts. Perform public comparable analyses and transaction precedent analyses to provide recommendations on potential investment opportunities’ valuation. Interact with investment banks to get insight into current market valuations. Draft indications of interest (IOIs, i.e., non-binding bids) and letters of intent (LOIs, i.e., binding bids), collaborating with legal counsel if needed. Interact closely with potential investment opportunities’ key managers (usually CFOs) to obtain detailed operational and financial information. Build and support financial models, which reflect financial projections based on conversations with industry experts and management teams of potential investment opportunities; acquisition parameters including cash consideration, transaction expenses, earn-out payments, equity investment and returns waterfall; debt raising parameters including compliance with financial covenants over the forecasted period, layering in mandatory amortization into the financial forecast, and calculating levels of discretionary debt paydown; future exit parameters including exit EV/EBITDA multiple, exit timing with various scenarios, and layering in management equity incentive plans; and scenario analysis. Manage information flow between potential investment opportunities and other parties involved in the deal. Interact with prospective lenders, providing information and performing ad hoc analyses, reviewing legal documentation.
SALARY: $150,000 per year.
CONTACT: Send resume and cover letter to:
Growth Catalyst Partners,
info@growthcatalystpartners.com
Jobsite: 318 W Adams Street 1200C, Chicago, IL 60606 (Full-Time Position)