Sourcing-heavy PE Analyst roles
Hi all,
Currently working as Analyst in IBD at GS London (7 months into the job) and just got an offer for an Analyst position at software focussed PE/Growth Equity shop.
The role is limited to 2 years, with an opportunity to join the team permanently afterwards as Associate or leave.
The catch now is that it would be heavy on sourcing, i.e. market mapping, research followed by some outreach, (ca. 70%) for the first 6-12 months, before involving more execution work (ca. 50/50 split between execution and sourcing for the remaining 12 months).
Very good impression of the people and the firm BUT I am just concerned that the sourcing/execution split does not allow me to build the technical skills and deal exposure needed to make me an interesting enough candidate for other PE funds after those 2 years, should I decide to leave then.
Happy to hear your insights/thoughts.
Thanks!
Why not ask them this question if you have an offer in hand? Would also consider the following:
- What exactly is the sourcing work? Is it from mapping to model, or is it cold calls to corporate carve-out candidates? There is a lot of variations here to consider, with some intellectually more satisfying than others.
- How can you work 70/30 on sourcing if you're on a live deal? Typically deal teams are 2-3 professionals. Maybe ask them how they structure deal teams? We have interns where the idea is to have them on sourcing but in practice, they nearly 100% do deal work because proprietary sourcing is a dream.
- Coming from IBD GS what sort of technical skills do you expect/hope to learn? You will not reach the sort of volumes of an IB shop, couple of SPA/SHA's per year?
- 6-12 months is a very short period to fuss about in PE world, think longer term. Do you want to be at this firm? Do you want to be in growth? Do you want to focus on Software? Is there a team fit (answer seems yes)?
- What are your alternate options/routes? Would you prefer these, or do you only have one option?
- What is the reputation of the firm? Other PE firms won't expect a full deal sheet from a 2 year analyst, and you come with GS creds so having done 1 more growth deal won't make or break your exit.
Just some thoughts that came to mind.
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