Investment Manager – Impact Investing

Investment Manager – Impact Investing

22 Bishopsgate – Hybrid

Permanent

At AXA IM, our purpose, to act for human progress by investing for what matters, is central to every action we take as a business. As a responsible asset manager, we actively invest for the long-term to help our clients, our people, and the world to prosper.

As a future Investment Manager, Impact Investing, you will report to the Head of Climate PE Transactions and be part of AXA IM Alts – Natural Capital & Impact Investing.

DISCOVER your opportunity

We are seeking an Investment Manager for our Impact Investing team. This individual will be responsible for:

• Transaction modelling, execution, and monitoring
• Contributing to the origination, assessment, and underwriting of private equity transactions
• Building relationships with investors, market participants, advisors, and target companies to access deal flow and establish an investment universe

Your role and accountabilities will include:

• Deal Execution / Management
  • Investment analysis and financial modelling per company/project
  • Support execution on direct private equity investments across the impact platform with a focus on Climate private equity transactions
  • Present investment opportunities to investment committees and clients
  • Monitoring post-investment
• Pipeline
  • Create a network to source and access proprietary deals
  • Screen and rank the pipeline to prioritize
  • Build top-down sector mapping with deep dive into priority sectors to establish an investment universe
• Impact Investing Team
  • Support the team in sourcing, meeting management, database maintenance, analysis, and investment recommendations
  • Monitor and report on the financial and impact performance and risk profile of existing portfolio investments
  • Build valuation models and lead discussions with the risk committee and auditors to execute a solid valuation process
• External Stakeholder Management
  • Interface with third-party service providers relating to due diligence and deal execution
• Internal Stakeholder Management
  • Liaise with all internal stakeholders including risk, compliance, legal, operations, audit, and build effective working relationships and processes to ensure efficient execution
• Project Management
  • Participate in coordinating projects in the impact investing team including new product development, process improvement, and system implementation
  • Extract impact data from transactions and build a methodology to report

SHARE your unique

We welcome different combinations of skills & experiences.

Your qualifications and experience:

• Experience investing across an array of private market assets
• Strong expertise in building sophisticated financial models and valuation techniques
• Track record of assessing private equity deals from sourcing and structuring through to execution
• Post-investment monitoring and management of positions
• Demonstrate expertise in impact investing and related market sectors/themes with a preference for Climate equity market experience
• Ability to bring new ideas to the investment process
• Entrepreneurial attitude and highly motivated individual
• Ability to work well alongside team members in a fast-paced team environment, including with colleagues and counterparties based in different regional offices
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills supporting robust written and oral presentations
• Self-starter with the ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple projects effectively
• Highly numerical and analytical
• Experience in private equity and relevant University degree

We would love to know more about you. Let’s connect! Send us your resume.