Website First Cheque

Backing ambitious founders right from the ideation stage

Job Description

Role: Investment Analyst

Location: Indiranagar, Bangalore

Format: Work from Office, 5 days a week

What is in it for you?

Real-world access to the world of VC across the value chain
Deal sourcing to evaluation to transaction closure to portfolio management
Fund management (MIS collection & analysis, events & marketing, social media presence, LP reporting, accounts management and much more)
Face time with founders and leaders in the ecosystem (both VCs and startups)
Getting your hands dirty in execution – learning everything about running the fund and helping the founders
Networking, networking and networking
Work with a super lean team – 3 people managing one of the largest portfolios of 130+ companies and growing
Good food, fun conversations and a lot of gossip

Who will you be working with?

Who will you be mentored by?

Extended team members you will have access to

What will be your core responsibilities?

Building a rapport with the current portfolio founders and helping them with whatever they need.
Being a number wizard and triangulating those with logic across multiple documents.
Managing multiple things at the same time.
Asking too many “Why’s” and understanding the basics of business.
Eradicating yourself from the process and ensuring documentation is provided for everything you do.
Asking the right questions to develop conviction and then communicating your thoughts in a simple way.
Anything and everything that will simplify your and the founder’s life in getting access to what one wants.
Following up to ensure all work is done and each stakeholder is reminded consistently of what is pending.

What are the skills you will need?

Find peace in talking to people and helping them.
Be a voracious reader and introspective.
Want to do the grunt work to understand the business and the boring parts better.
Love crunching numbers in your head.
Constantly work on improving your communication skills.
Be able to context switch quickly.
Be committed to perfection and willing to bet your life on the work you do.
Be passionate about asking questions until you have complete clarity.
Be willing to keep building new skills.
Have a problem-solving approach.
Have an ownership attitude.
Be able to synthesize complex information into simple steps.
Have first principle thinking and strong analytical skills.
Be willing to write/type/note down.
Have good time management and focus on execution or closure.
Have strong interpersonal/communication skills.
Be committed to keeping up to deadlines.
Be curious to learn new things and find creative ways to solve problems.
Be able to build perspectives and keep asking questions to finetune your thoughts.
Be able to prioritize amongst multiple pressing items.

Tools you will need to know at the back of your hand

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