Financial Modeler – PE, Credit, Debt
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Financial Modeler building Excel-based PE, credit, and debt models for a U.S.-based AI technology company. Supporting investment and lending decision systems through hands-on model construction and review.
Responsibilities:
- Build PE, credit, and debt models from scratch in Excel
- Structure transactions, assumptions, and drivers
- Link full model flows from operations through cash flow, debt, and returns
- Review and debug models built by others
- Identify incorrect assumptions, broken logic, and risks
- Analyze how operating performance flows through to debt service and returns
- Clearly explain financial logic and decision-making
- Complete a take-home Excel modeling exercise designed to reflect real-world modeling work
Requirements:
- 2–10 years in finance roles with heavy, hands-on modeling
- Experience at a private equity fund, including direct investing, buy-side diligence, and portfolio company modeling, strongly preferred
- Built multiple full LBO models from scratch
- Experience with sources & uses, transaction assumptions, multi-tranche debt schedules, returns analysis, operating models, sensitivities, downside cases, and exit scenarios
- Experience with add-ons, dividend recaps, or refinancing scenarios is a plus
- Experience with 3-statement borrower models, cash flow-based underwriting, debt capacity analysis, covenant modeling, and stress scenarios
- Experience with debt sizing and structuring, amortization, PIK, cash sweeps, refinancing mechanics, recovery analysis, and payment waterfalls
- Direct experience in private equity, leveraged finance, sponsor coverage, private credit, direct lending, or credit underwriting
- Proven ability to build models from a blank spreadsheet without templates
- Experience building models that drove real investment or lending decisions
- High attention to detail and model accuracy
- Strong communication skills
- English required
- Must complete an approximately 3-hour take-home Excel modeling exercise independently
Benefits:
- Candidates who are hired will be paid for the ~3-hour take-home Excel modeling exercise
- Full-time independent contractor role, 40 hours/week




















