Mickael Marzinotto

Working within the Analyst department, taking part to deals to rely major Private Equity firms to strategic opportunities.

• Analysing the business plan and financial statements of the entity to understand how the company runs and the get an overview of the deal,

• Implement valuation modelling and analysis of middle-market private companies for the purposes of Private Equity Firms.

• Initiated a search of distressed companies for a private equity client and identified over 200 targets in need of recapitalization.

• Presented deals to private equity firms to fund executives led purchases of target companies.

• Increased efficiency across the process of operations by improving the sourcing process for Private Equity firms leading to better use of resources.

• Skills acquired: Corporate finance knowledge; I.R.R. or L.B.O. Strong analytical and technical skills.

Working within the Audit department, taking part in the Intermediary and Final Audits on Investment Funds and banks.

Completing a legal review to ensure the fund respects the Luxembourg Laws and its Prospectus, Analysing and performing tests on the entities' Financial Statements in order to give a fair and professional opinion of the financial situation of the entity.

Example of tests and analysis: ensure that the NAV (Net Asset Value) is correctly calculated; the process of subscriptions/redemptions is correctly calculated and recorded; the investment policies are well respected, the assets and liabilities are good or produce a report on the entity.

Skills acquired: Learning Audit and Bookkeeping principles. Financial skills (Funds and Hedge-funds; money markets, asset the NAV, Merger of funds). Working in a team as well as under pressure. Working in a multicultural team, adaptation and communication ability.

Working within the Internal Control department into its three main activities; Shareholders services; Managing and solving the issues about the redemptions and subscriptions of shares, bonds, securities in hedge funds.

Global custody; Collecting the payments errors on the transitory account, determining the origin or the error and making the right payment at the right counterpart, Fund management; Managing the NAV's errors, determining responsibilities and analyzing the origin of the error and; if needed, compensating the counterpart.

Skills acquired: Learning the importance of Internal Control and its relations. Financial knowledge about the risk management in a dynamical environment, cf. financial crisis.

Working within the Call Centre department, Data Entry, necessary to make a marketing survey in order to know the customers satisfaction, Post - Franking and generating customer letters to inform customers about their financial situation and their payments.

Skills acquired: Improving my English by communicating with my colleagues, understand how English company works and working in a large team.