Analyst, Equity Management
$70k - $90k USD
Founded in 1999, Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. With approximately $42 billion of assets under management and more than 475 employees, Audax is a leading capital partner for middle market companies, operating through three business lines: Audax Private Equity, Audax Private Debt, and Audax Strategic Capital.
For more information, visit the Audax Group website www.audaxgroup.com. or follow us on LinkedIn.
POSITION SUMMARY:
Audax Private Equity deal team members are supported by professionals in several key functional areas including legal, capital markets, finance/accounting, business development, portfolio support, and IT. Our model allows deal teams to focus their energy and resources on what matters most – building companies and creating equity value for our investors.
The Analyst will play a key role in the Portfolio Valuation & Analytics team, which focuses on portfolio company valuations, portfolio company / fund level analytics, fundraising initiatives, limited partner reporting, investment benchmarking and reporting for the Private Equity business unit, and portfolio company cap table management and reporting.
The Analyst will be a significant contributor to the Audax Equity Management team to routinely aggregate portfolio company capitalization table information, develop reports and integrated analyses, and develop capitalization table analyses and waterfall models to drive processes and operational improvements.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Equity Management
- Maintain portfolio company capitalization table data within the Diligent Equity system by reviewing equity agreements to ensure accuracy and consistency.
- Coordinate directly with external law firms to review and reconcile equity documentation to ensure complete and accurate cap table records.
- Partner with investment teams to ensure alignment on equity structures, and resolve discrepancies or open questions related to ownership, share classes, and shareholder details.
- Support recurring cap table reconciliations and internal audits by validating source documents, tracing historical changes, and ensuring the Diligent Equity and Snowflake/Excel records remain accurate and up to date.
- Serve as a central point of contact during equity-related workflows to ensure complete documentation, timely updates, and consistency across systems and reporting.
Capitalization Table Reporting
- Assist in building and maintaining waterfall models for quarterly valuation reporting and intra-quarter scenario analysis.
- Expand PowerBI dashboard development to provide portfolio company and fund-level ownership metrics.
- Support tracking of the portfolio company executives, ensuring records reflect which executives have served across multiple portfolio companies, their roles, tenure, and relevant historical equity participation.
- Prepare internal summary reports highlighting executive movement, repeat partnerships, and other patterns within the portfolio company executive ecosystem
Process re-engineering and automation to promote efficiency and accuracy
- Execute operational improvements. Coordinate with portfolio support team, finance, and IT to refine capitalization tables and business intelligence processes to improve quality and control of data for reporting and analysis.
- Document work streams and offer recommendations on efficiency.
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- BS or BA with a high GPA in Compliance, Legal, Finance, Accounting, or a related major
- 1-3 years professional experience in an analytical role, including experience with financial models
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Familiarity with legal and compliance documents (i.e., subscription agreements, limited partnership agreements, equity ownership documents)
- Good understanding of finance, accounting and experience with alternative investments a plus
- Strong attention to detail, ability to multitask and prioritize workload
- Proven history of process engineering and efficiency improvements
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Familiarity with Chronograph, PowerBI, Diligent Equity, and/or investment analytics software a plus
COMPETENCIES:
The candidate should be advanced in Excel and PowerPoint, specifically in the following areas:
- Complex logic formulas (i.e., combining “IF formulas” with other Excel functions)
- Advanced combinations of lookup functions (e.g., combinations of offset, index, match, sumproduct, indirect with other excel functions)
- Strong PowerPoint presentation skills, with attention to detail and ability to summarize complex ideas to various audiences
The base salary range for this position is $70,000 - $90,000. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation may vary and will be determined based on but not limited to, the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and Audax reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. An employee may also be eligible for annual discretionary incentive compensation based on performance.
Audax offers a wide range of employee benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off (including sick leave, parental leave, volunteer leave, and vacation), charitable donation match, family support services (including Bright Horizons and Benefit Advocate Center), and a 401(k) in addition to other benefits.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Audax Management Co. is an equal opportunity employer.
Please note that Audax Group and its affiliated entities do not accept unsolicited resumes from a third-party recruiting agency not currently under a signed agreement. Any unsolicited resume that is sent to directly to Audax Group or one of its affiliated entities, or its employees, including those submitted to hiring managers by a third-party recruiting agency not currently under a signed agreement, will be considered property of Audax Group. If a third-party recruiting agency submits a resume without an agreement, Audax Group or its affiliated entities explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the third-party recruiting agency. Any third-party recruiting agency should contact either a member of the Talent Acquisition or Human Resource team at Audax Group, in conjunction with a valid, fully executed contract for service based upon a specific job opening.