• Department: Expansion
• Contract: Internship
• Duration: 6 months
• Location: Milan office
• Start date: March 2023

Why Ardian?

Ardian is a world leading private investment house, managing or advising $140bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,300 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Through Ardian Customized Solutions we create bespoke portfolios that allow institutional clients to specify the precise mix of assets they require and to gain access to funds managed by leading third-party sponsors. We also provide a specialist service for private clients through Ardian Private Wealth Solutions. Ardian is majority-owned by its employees and places great emphasis on developing its people and fostering a collaborative culture based on collective intelligence. Our 1010+ employees, spread across 16 offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia, are strongly committed to the principles of Responsible Investment and are determined to make finance a force for good in society. Our goal is to deliver excellent investment performance combined with high ethical standards and social responsibility.

At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.

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The role

Ardian’s Expansion team is offering an analyst internship opportunity in the Milan office to assist in the identification, analysis and execution of investments.

The intern analyst will have significant responsibilities from day one and become an integral part of the team, with high levels of interaction with senior management at Ardian, other investment teams and support functions.

Key responsibilities for the intern analyst will include:

• Collect and analyse information on target companies, their competitors and business sectors, as well as prepare materials for and participate to meetings with industry experts, advisors, etc.

• Participate in the assessment of investment opportunities (business analysis, research of comparables, company modelling, company valuation, etc.).

• Participate in the investment process (including drafting the investment memorandum and reviewing due diligence work performed in various areas: commercial, financial, legal, etc.)

This list is not exhaustive and will vary depending on the capabilities of the intern and the needs of the team.

Required skills

• The candidate should possess a broad set of quantitative, qualitative and interpersonal skills, and be a strong team player

• Curiosity, intellectual rigour and discipline; ability to organise and perform work efficiently

Knowledge of financial statement analysis, valuation techniques and competency in Office suite (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), MergerMarket, Aida/Orbis, Factset/CapitalIQ

Profile

• Degree either recently completed or due to complete from leading business school or university

• Strong commercial understanding of Private Equity

• At least one previous internship in one of the following areas would be beneficial:
  - Private equity fund
  - M&A team of a leading investment bank
  - Transaction Services team of a leading audit firm
  - Leading strategy consulting firm

• Knowledge of financial engineering and LBO structuring 
• Italian and English fluency

About the Team

Based in Paris, Frankfurt and Milan, Ardian Expansion team invests in growing mid-size companies across the Eurozone economies offering a powerful combination in their positions of expert in building domestic strength and key partner for international growth. Alongside talented entrepreneurs, the 32 investment professionals have acquired the ability to identify specific growth characteristics leading to the full expression of an efficient buy-and-build strategy. With assets of US$4bn managed or advised, Ardian Expansion puts long-term value creation at the heart of their activity, focusing on sustainable and digital transformational approach to help businesses become resilient international leaders.

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