Associate, Capital Formation
SkyWater is partnering with an established, but growing, global private investment firm to add an Associate-Capital Formation to their team.
This person will play a key role in Investor Relations, this role will be responsible for coordinating investor due diligence processes, preparing and maintaining accurate investor=facing product information, researching competitors and working on projects to support the firm’s fundraising.
We are looking for an ambitious candidate with excellent follow-through that can continue to develop best practices across client service and fundraising initiatives.
Experience in specialty finance, consumer finance, and real assets is desired, but not required.
*Position is on-site in Minneapolis
If you’re interested in hearing more, please contact Jamende@skywatersearch.com
Responsibilities
- Support fundraising initiatives by coordinating the prospective investor diligence process and responding to prospective investor inquiries.
- Lead the preparation of complex investor diligence questionnaires, prospective investor meeting materials and internal product documentation.
- Manage multiple investor diligence workflows, including oversight of virtual data rooms, investor diligence portals, document requests, and follow-up communications to ensure timely and consistent delivery of information.
- Partner closely with other teams to gather information, develop messaging, and ensure accurate and consistent investor communications.
- Perform research on potential new mandates and competitors, utilizing external information mining to support research efforts.
- Support the management, integrity, and reporting of investor and fundraising data within the firm’s CRM, producing analytics and pipeline reporting to assist decision-making.
Desired Skills and Experience
- Undergraduate degree in finance, economics, communications or related field
- Two years of experience in in related field such as financial marketing, private equity, hedge fund, private credit, banking, finance, etc.
- Strong organization skills with attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills, able to effectively communicate and summarize complex information, both written and orally
- Strong analytical, decision making and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines, manage multiple high-priority projects, and transition smoothly as projects stop or start
- Highly self-motivated and driven to succeed with an insatiable intellectual curiosity
- Strong problem-solving skills and “next-step” thinking with the ability to anticipate needs and identify, improve and implement processes; dependable
- Able to build rapport between organizations, people and cultures
- Team player, adaptable; willing to perform tasks necessary to achieve common goals
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite
- Preference for experience with Salesforce or other CRM system
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