Private Equity Associate – Consumer & Leisure
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Private equity associate building consumer-leisure transaction models and peer-reviewing anonymized Excel workbooks. Supporting Mercor’s AI labs and enterprises with expert training data.
Responsibilities:
- Build a working financial model of an assigned consumer/leisure transaction from a synthetic deal document pack
- Deliver an editable Excel workbook with live formulas, source references, and stated assumptions
- Peer-review two anonymized models from other contractors against fixed criteria
- Provide a short written rationale for each peer review and complete a review scorecard
- Work on projects training and enhancing AI systems
Requirements:
- 2–4 years total experience
- Approximately 2 years of investment banking experience in Consumer/Retail or generalist M&A, ideally in Paris, London, or elsewhere in Europe
- 1–2 years in mid-market or large-cap private equity
- Currently or recently an Associate at a mid-market or large-cap PE fund
- Consumer/leisure/multi-site services focus preferred, including fitness clubs, owned vs. franchise, or multi-site roll-ups
- Paris office or French deal experience preferred
- Able to build a financial model from source documents without a template
- English-speaking
- Effort of approximately 20–25 hours over 1.5–2 weeks
- Must work as an independent contractor
- H1-B or STEM OPT candidates are not supported
Benefits:
- Fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise based on services rendered
- Competitive pay
- Collaboration with leading researchers
- Opportunity to help shape the next generation of AI systems
- Reasonable accommodations upon request
- Referral payments of up to $560 for successful referrals (subject to limits)
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