Internship Portfolio Controller
Verve Ventures, Switzerland
Job Description
Are you curious about all kinds of new technologies and intrigued by innovative business models? Working in a young and diverse team within a fast-paced environment sounds appealing to you? Then this role might be what you are looking for.
We are one of the fastest growing venture capital firms in Europe and we are looking for motivated, hands-on people who want to take an active and shaping part in our growth journey.
In your role, you will join us to systematically track and analyze the performance of one of Europe’s largest start-up portfolios, to provide critical data-driven portfolio insights to our teams and keep our investors informed. Moreover you will be involved in data evaluation projects as well as in the development of new processes and work streams that help us to gain efficiency in our operative business.
As a Portfolio Controller Intern, you will:
- Work with the Portfolio Management team to actively monitor our portfolio of more than 100 Swiss and European start-ups by extracting, collecting and summarizing key KPIs and business updates
- Support our portfolio across governance topics such as Annual General Meetings by coordinating with our internal teams and finalizing voting decisions
- Be the first person to know how and where we can help our portfolio companies, where they currently struggle and how we can promote their good work
- Further develop new processes and workflows to manage our increasingly expanding portfolio
- Conduct in-depth data analysis and evaluations of existing workflows in the overall investment team in order to improve processes and increase efficiency
Requirements
- Ideally hold at least a bachelor’s degree (ideally in finance or business)
- The ideal candidate will have relevant professional experience at least from one or two internships, dealing with hands-on data collection and key KPIs to monitor company performance within start-ups, venture capital or private equity
- Excellent time management skills and ability to multitask and prioritize work
- Willingness and curiosity to dive into the data of a broad range of start-ups and their industries, supporting our cross-company teams to deliver information to enable them to provide the best services to our portfolio
- Ability to execute independently and autonomously while being a team player at the same time
- Strong people and communication skills - you need to be able to summarize key information in a clear and insightful way to become a sparring partner to our internal teams making key decisions
- Full written and spoken fluency in English, additional languages (especially German or French) are a plus
- Starting in July for at least 6 months
To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone who is now studying for their bachelors or masters, with an eagerness to build up experience in the VC industry. You should be someone with a strong attention to detail and who doesn’t mind getting their hands dirty on gathering and summarizing data. We are primarily looking for someone who can join us full time over the next six months, but can also consider part time applicants.
Benefits
- Dynamic and challenging start-up and venture capital environment, deep and collaborative involvement with the work across our teams
- Team events and more
We strongly believe that diverse experiences and viewpoints, leading to a diverse working environment, are the key to making us successful venture capitalists. We want to encourage applicants with diverse backgrounds to apply to the Venture Capital world. We process all applications without regard to gender, nationality, race, color, religion, age, disability status, sexual orientation, or marital status.