Should I bring up to my team manager that I don’t like the direction my role is going in?
Hi all,
I recently started at a Private Equity firm. When going through the interview process and discussions with the team, I was told I would be on the investment team and got hired for that role. However, before my start date, another analyst in the middle office left the firm and since starting recently, I have been told that I will be helping out on some of those tasks as well and will most likely be taking over his role.
Now my dilemma is, should I tell my manager that I was promised a role on the investment team and was hired for that position and that I am happy to help with the tasks if they need me but I don’t want my role going in the direction of that previous analyst’s role as I am much more interested in front office, investment roles?
Or would that look bad on me? I just don’t want to get stuck doing middle office work as I was hired for the investment team. All of my previous experiences (4 internships) have been in front office advisory roles so I am not sure why I am being bred for this middle office role when clearly they had told me they are hiring me for the investment team during interviews. It’s only my first week but I think it would be best to say it earlier than later, right?
Any advice on how to navigate this would be very helpful.
if you are just a week in then I would wait at least a month minimum. maybe they are interviewing someone for the middle office role. I would also go to the investment team and see if you can get some work from them and try and split your efforts between front office and middle office for the first month.
What kind of firm is this? Seems highly irregular for a respected PE firm to rug pull you like that
Did they offer any clarification as to whether this change is permanent or temporary?
If the latter, you can ask subtly when they expect to find a replacement while at the same time appearing more enthusiastic for investment work… you can always go upto someone and say “hey I’m pretty light on XYZ investment related work, can I help with something or is there anything you want me to do / look at?”
If it’s the former, then it’s very shitty of them to do so. I wouldn’t make a stink of it as that can risk putting you in a bad spot. I’d just quietly recruit again and explain this switch in role as the reason to leave.
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