Private Equity Analyst Assets and Sustainability

Position: 2027 Private Equity Analyst (Full-Time) | Real Assets and Sustainability

CF Private Equity empowers pension funds, endowments, foundations, family offices, investment advisors, and other sophisticated investors to diversify their portfolios with private investments. We combine the scale of a leading global asset manager with the nimble flexibility of a focused boutique, offering access to many of the world’s leading managers in buyouts and growth equity, venture capital, and real assets and sustainability strategies.

Our global portfolios are constructed with a diversified mix of primaries, secondaries, and co-investments, with a focus on smaller and growing companies backed by sector and geographic specialist general partners. We also provide direct investing opportunities through secondaries and co-investing programs that provide dedicated exposure to select private companies. Our highly experienced investors reflect CF Private Equity’s commitment to investment performance and its decades-long commitment to the values of trust, transparency, and ethical behavior.

Our professional staff of 60 serves more than 800 investors including mission-based organizations and pension plans. Stewardship is our priority and we have managed over $25.4 billion of private capital commitments since inception.

Real Assets & Sustainability (RAS) Team

Description:

The Real Assets & Sustainability team invests out of CF Private Equity’s Sustainability and Natural Resources programs with $3.5B+ raised since inception.

The Sustainability programs are designed to seek standalone private equity investment returns while intending to report on measurable environmental benefits. We focus on companies, operating platforms, and other investments across a diversified set of sustainable themes such as: (a) renewable energy; (b) food, agriculture and water; and (c) resource efficiency.

The Natural Resources programs invest in energy, power generation and other physical infrastructure, agriculture, and mining as well as select services across these sectors.

Position

Description:

We are seeking a Private Equity Analyst with approximately 1-2 years of relevant work experience to join CF Private Equity’s Real Assets and Sustainability investment team in our Norwalk, CT office. This is not an entry-level campus-recruiting role — we’re looking for candidates who have already built a foundation in investment analysis, financial modeling, or related work and are ready to apply it directly to real assets and sustainability investing.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the RAS team’s overall investment strategy including the sourcing, evaluation, selection, and recommendation of investments
• Execute on all stages of the investment due diligence process, including participating in investment diligence meetings, gathering and synthesizing data and information for investment analysis, and preparing investment memos and presentations for internal and external stakeholders
• Drive financial due diligence including the financial analysis, modeling, and valuation of prospective investments
• Present investment opportunities and recommendations to the Investment Committee
• Market Research & Analysis
• Perform comprehensive market research and analysis to identify and assess potential investment opportunities in the real assets & sustainability markets
• Complete analytical projects on specific investment topics and perform extensive due diligence on markets for prospective investments
• Monitor industry news, research reports, and regulatory changes to provide valuable insights to the team
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records of investment transactions, documents, and correspondence.
• Oversee updates of internal databases, deal logs, models, and presentation
• Support portfolio monitoring efforts including valuing portfolio…