Job Description
aVenture is seeking a knowledgeable valuation specialist with experience in venture capital and private company’s valuation.
About aVenture Investment Company
aVenture is a San Francisco-based fintech platform providing access to venture capital funds to ordinary investors.
Description
aVenture is a San Francisco, California (USA) based financial technology startup, with a small global team (North and South America, Europe, Asia) looking to forever change investing by making venture capital investment funds available to everyone.
aVenture is seeking a knowledgeable valuation specialist with experience in venture capital and private company valuation. We are looking for 1-2 valuation professionals to join us part-time or full-time (20 to 40 hours a week), and this position is available at a fixed rate of compensation per month or hourly rate, depending on schedule arrangements made by the candidate.
This is a remote position that can be done from anywhere in the world (work from home). This position requires a regular work schedule and must have at least 4 hours of US Pacific Time availability per weekday in your schedule.
- Desired skills:
- Experience valuing private companies and/or startups (e.g., venture capital, private equity, other asset class experience is beneficial as well)
- Excellent analytical, report writing and organizational skills
- Excellent understanding of company, industry, economic research, financial statements and valuations
- Strong quantitative skills
- Experience in applying technical research skills needed to gather, organize, summarize, and interpret data to arrive at a conclusion
- Experience providing detailed valuation reports
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Commitment to obtaining outstanding results
- Job duties:
- Analyze privately held companies and securities
- Perform valuation analysis on a wide range of private companies across different industries
- Prepare business valuation models and reports
- Design and work with financial models for discounted cash flow, market multiple, market transaction and option pricing analyses
- Assist in preparing and presenting the results of your analysis in a clear and concise manner
- Collaborate with team members to share information and insights
- Perform in-depth client, industry, market and competitor research
- Perform detailed analysis of financial and legal documents, analysis of potentially fraudulent transactions, and reconstruction of financial statements
- Qualifications required:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or concentration in finance, accounting, economics, or related fields; Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholders or candidates and NACVA certificate holders (including CVA) are also considered to meet this requirement
- Strong analytical, research, and sampling and quantitative abilities
- Experience conducting company valuation, particularly in the venture capital sector
- What to expect
- You’ll be working with an experienced, knowledgeable, and friendly team of people passionate about making venture capital accessible for everyone
- Each employee on our team is expected to have a stable work schedule they establish for when they begin and end work each day, and must have at least 4 hours of US Pacific Time business hours available Monday through Friday daily
- A successful valuation professional will manage their time carefully, maintaining time entries of their work and managing a successful task board (such as Jira), and participate in daily brief check-in meetings, along with weekly planning meetings
Salary
$60,000 - $90,000 per year
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