Overview
Senior Investment Associate / Investment Manager at Akiles, an evergreen fund focused on small and midsize companies in Belgium and neighboring countries. The fund has committed capital of €50 million and a broad investment scope across profitable SMEs, growing scale-ups, and early-stage companies (min. €1m in sales).
We invest across sectors with current active investments in areas such as management consulting, SaaS, consumer lifestyle products, omnichannel retail, organic food distribution, IoT solutions, fraud detection, 3D printing, and VR. The team sources, assesses new opportunities, conducts due diligence, structures transactions, and allocates equity tickets ranging from €0.5m to €5m. After investment, we actively support portfolio companies at board level with ongoing follow-up and strategic involvement until exit.
More about us at www.akiles.be.
Function Description
You will actively support the fund across a broad set of responsibilities, including deal sourcing through intermediaries and proactive outreach, screening databases, and mapping sector landscapes. You’ll take ownership of sector research, financial modeling, and the assessment of business plans and valuations. You will support due diligence, transaction structuring, post-investment management, and exit preparation. Given Akiles’ broad investment scope—from profitable SMEs to fast-growing scale-ups—you will gain hands-on exposure to both private equity and venture capital dynamics. The high volume of opportunities requires a methodical and structured approach to evaluation, including the integration of strategic, legal, and fiscal insights with a critical eye.
Our Offer
This position offers a distinctive opportunity to accelerate your career in private equity and venture capital at a mid-level stage. You’ll work closely with experienced professionals in a small but dynamic investment team. The role provides a flexible and well-balanced mix of time at our office in southern Brussels and remote work. Alongside a competitive compensation package, you’ll gain deep insights into the functioning of the fund and its portfolio companies, and broaden your exposure to investment and value creation strategies.
Ideal Candidate
You will be involved in all phases of the investment lifecycle and contribute to strategic decisions concerning direct investments. We seek someone with strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, market insight, and communication abilities. You should balance a positive, commercially driven mindset with critical thinking on risks and downside scenarios.
Qualifications: Master’s degree in finance, business, economics, or a related field. You have between 5 and 7 years of relevant professional experience (minimum 4, maximum 12) in roles involving financial modeling, valuation, and investment analysis. Relevant experience may include private equity, venture capital, M&A, corporate development, consulting, or entrepreneurship.
Additional assets:
* Proven exposure to investment processes, due diligence, and deal execution.
* Experience collaborating directly with senior stakeholders and/or boards.
* Fluency in Dutch, French, and English.
* Comfort with AI tools to increase efficiency and extract insight.
Requirements
* Senior-level experience in investment analysis, deal sourcing, and post-investment management.
* Strong financial modeling, valuation, and due diligence capabilities.
* Ability to work across private equity and venture capital contexts.
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