About Fortuna Advisors:
Fortuna Advisors is a boutique management consulting firm that advises some of the world’s largest companies on how to better define, invest in, and achieve their value creation ambitions. Our work sits at the intersection of applied corporate finance, strategy and investing, helping CEOs and CFOs to imbed a rigorous investor mindset in how they think about their company’s performance, portfolio, direction and culture. Our approach is built on decades of experience working with investors and companies at all stages of growth at Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley, Houlihan Lokey, Lehman Brothers, EY, Stern Stewart and Marakon.
Fortuna Advisors’ research and thought leadership focuses on defining a modern approach to how companies create value, and has been cited and published widely, including Postmodern Corporate Finance, Beyond EVA, Building a Bridge Between Marketing & Finance, The Pros & Cons of Stock Buybacks, The Return on Purpose: Before and During a Crisis, A Company That Gets Managers to Think Like Owners, and Curing Corporate Short-Termism: Future Growth vs. Current Earnings, and Driving Outperformance: The Power And Potential Of Economic Profit
Fortuna Advisors Associate Job Description:
Associates actively contribute to all phases of client engagements and will be primarily responsible for financial, strategic and organizational analysis. Associates will conduct analysis, interpret results, develop insights and actions, and prepare documents to convey results for clients. Must be based and authorized to work in the US.
Desired Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or advanced degree
- Ability to work proactively and independently in a remote environment; ability to take ownership of workstreams
- Fluency in core financial concepts, accounting principles and approaches to valuation
- Comfort with analytical problem-solving, including development and testing of hypotheses
- Substantial experience building Excel and other models for a range of different financial or strategic analyses – e.g., valuation, cash flow projections, M&A, market sizing and entry, innovation / new product development
- Ability to effectively communicate complex financial or strategic topics orally and in writing
- Proficiency in PowerPoint or other media for communicating results and insights
- Experience with data analysis or data visualization tools is a plus – e.g., R, Python, Power BI, etc.
- Passion for self-development and genuine interest in contributing to thought leadership
- Experience with or knowledge of economic or cash-based approaches to valuation (e.g., EVA, EP, CFROI) is a plus