Private Equity Associate; Remote

Job Title: Private Equity Associate
Company: Solen Software Group
Location: New York, NY (in-office, hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-time

About Solen Software Group

Solen Software Group is an evergreen holding company that acquires and operates proven vertical-market software businesses with meaningful long-term growth potential. Solen compounds value over decades, not quarters, and partners with founders to build enduring category leaders across HR tech, fleet telematics, asset management, e-health, document management, and other mission-critical software verticals.

About the Role

The Private Equity Associate is a high-ownership deal execution role responsible for leading the full due diligence process across Solen's active acquisition pipeline.

You will own diligence end-to-end—from LOI through close—serving as the central operator who scopes work streams, manages internal teams and third-party advisors, synthesizes findings, and translates a data room into a clear, defensible point of view for the investment committee. You will partner closely with corporate development, portfolio leadership, finance, and legal, and you will be a primary point of contact for sellers, bankers, and counter party advisors.

Success in this role comes from combining deep transaction craft with sharp business judgment—moving fast without breaking discipline, and consistently producing diligence outputs that hold up under owner-grade scrutiny.

Core Responsibilities

1) Due Diligence Leadership (End-to-End Process Ownership)

• Own the full due diligence process across live transactions, including commercial, financial, operational, technology, legal, tax, and HR work streams.

• Scope diligence, build and maintain the master diligence calendar, run working sessions, and drive workstream owners to clear, on-time outputs.

• Select, scope, and manage external advisors (QoE, consulting, legal, tech, insurance) with rigor on cost, quality, and timeline.

• Synthesize hundreds of pages of diligence output into a sharp investment thesis, key risks, and a defensible recommendation—owner-grade, not academic.

2) Investment Analysis & Modeling

• Build and maintain detailed financial models from a blank sheet; pressure-test management projections against diligence findings.

• Lead working capital, net debt, and quality-of-earnings analyses in partnership with QoE providers; develop a clear point of view on adjustments.

• Translate diligence findings into bid mechanics: purchase price, structure, earnouts, escrows, and reps & warranties positioning.

• Maintain valuation rigor across cases tied to specific operating drivers.

3) Investment Committee & Deal Communication

• Draft IC memos, deal updates, and board materials that translate complex diligence into the three things that actually matter for the decision.

• Maintain a single source of truth for deal status, open items, and decisions across the deal team.

• Communicate clearly and directly with senior leadership—surface risks early, frame trade-offs cleanly, and bring recommendations, not just analysis.

4) Transaction Execution & Negotiation Support

• Coordinate across internal stakeholders (corporate development, finance, legal, portfolio operations) and external counter parties (sellers, bankers, lenders, advisors) to keep deals on timeline.

• Support negotiation of LOIs, purchase agreements, disclosure schedules, and ancillary documents alongside legal counsel.

5) Cross-Functional Partnership & Post-Close Handoff

• Partner tightly with corporate development on opportunity evaluation, target screening, and management meetings.

• Own structured post-close transition handoff to integration and portfolio operations teams—diligence findings, value creation hypotheses, open risks, and Day-1 priorities.

• Provide feedback loops that sharpen Solen's diligence playbooks, scorecards, and execution standards over time.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 2 years of investment banking experience.

• Demonstrated ownership of executed transactions.

• Mastery of financial modeling; able to build from a blank sheet without a template.

• Strong command of accounting and QoE concepts, including working capital normalization and net debt…