Portfolio Monitoring Intern

Hayfin Capital Management

Hayfin was founded in 2009 with the ambition of creating one of Europe’s leading investment platforms. We focus on delivering best-in-class risk-adjusted returns for our investors across our strategies: Direct Lending, Special Opportunities and High-Yield Credit.

We consider ourselves value investors, generating differentiated return through hard work, insightful analysis, and disciplined investing. Hayfin seeks to recruit and retain exceptionally talented professionals. We believe in being local in each of our markets, and that our diverse mix of nationalities, cultures and languages makes us more connected to these markets.

Most of our team are industry generalists, with our edge lying in our origination networks and proven expertise in managing complex restructurings, workouts, and liquidations. That said, we employ dedicated, specialist teams in the areas of healthcare (life sciences), shipping (maritime) and real estate, where we believe our focused expertise provides an advantage. 

We operate across all major European geographies with headquarters in London, and ten offices globally including in Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan, Paris, Singapore, and New York.

Team profile

Hayfin is one of Europe’s leading private credit alternative asset managers with approximately €35 billion in assets under management. Headquartered in London, the team operates across all major European geographies with offices in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Madrid, Milan, and Tel Aviv, and has a growing presence in the United States with an office in New York.

The Private Credit Portfolio Monitoring team conducts reviews of existing portfolio investments and prepares analytics to add insight to the portfolio construction process and investor reporting.

Role description

This role forms part of our summer internship programme. This role will offer you the opportunity to be part of a collaborative, diverse, dynamic, and entrepreneurial team comprised of professionals from a range of nationalities and provide valuable insight into private credit monitoring and investing.

• Assist in tracking and analysing financial and operational performance of portfolio companies
• Subject to timing, support the preparation of one quarterly portfolio review
• Assist with reviewing and maintaining portfolio monitoring data for investor reporting and wider use around the organisation
• Collaborate with team members to identify trends and risks across the portfolio.
• Participate in team meetings and gain exposure to investment processes

Skills/capabilities

Skills/capabilities

We’re looking for someone who:

• Demonstrates an outstanding academic background. You will be proactive, able to work on your own undertaking research across a range of topics.
• Understands basic accounting, corporate finance and valuation concepts.
• Has strong analytical and numerical skills and is comfortable analysing and processing financial data.
• Is a proven team player.
• Has a proven track record of using MS Office products, especially MS Excel, at an intermediate level.
• Communicates fluently in English, both verbally and written and is able to articulate complex ideas simply and summarise them effectively.

Key attributes

We would like our interns to:

·       Be passionate about financial markets and get excited about the role of financial markets in the wider economy.

·       Demonstrate strong organisational skills; be able to juggle multiple priorities and meet committed deadlines.

·       Be attentive to details, see things others don’t see, be able to complete all tasks even under time pressure.

·       Commit to excellence and maintain high professional and ethical standards.

·       Explore the problem, identify innovative solutions, and present them to others.

·        Be articulate, presenting with gravitas, making others listen.

As an employer we are committed to promoting and protecting physical and mental wellbeing of all staff.