Post-Banking Seats

Hi Everyone, 

Current banking analyst looking to move into a more operationally involved seat relative to your traditional post-banking associate spot.

Understand there is a lot more $ to be made on the buy / refinancing / sale, etc. but the idea of being a desktop analyst for the vast majority of the day isn’t particularly appealing.

Looking for a shop that:

(i) Juniors are more involved in the true day-to-day operations of PortCos / investments

(ii) able to drive operational improvement beyond the traditional fund marketing definition of operational improvement, and

(iii) tends to look at hairier assets assets / 363 but isn’t a pure loan-to-own player

Further, I'd presume interviews at the above type of shop would deviate from the typical interview process; if you have experience with said interview, I'd appreciate if you could share preparation / interview tips. Thank you.

Let me know if any clarification would be helpful. Thank you. 

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