[London, GB] Investment Analyst, Portage Ventures (January 2027 - 12-month contract)
Sagard Overview:
Sagard is a multi-strategy alternative asset management firm active in venture capital, private equity, private credit and real estate. Sagard also engages in private wealth management through Sagard Wealth. Founded in 2016 and guided by the core values of entrepreneurship, innovation, collaboration, rigour and authenticity, Sagard has experienced outstanding growth. Today, the firm has more than US$45 billion under management, 190 portfolio companies and 540 professionals.
Sagard is well positioned to continue to grow substantially, organically and inorganically, pursuing its vision of becoming one of the best-performing investment management firms. Headquartered in Canada, Sagard currently has offices in Canada, the United States, Europe and the Middle East. More at https://www.sagard.com
Portage Overview:
Portage, the venture capital arm of multi-asset class alternative investment platform Sagard Holdings, is an early-stage investor dedicated to backing the next generation of innovative, global financial services companies working to benefit all consumers. With its longer-term commitments combined with its industry intelligence and operational expertise, Portage is the ideal partner for the bold and ambitious. For more information, please visit https://portageinvest.com
Position Overview:
We are currently looking for an individual who is highly analytical and deeply passionate about fintech to join our team in Paris or London as an Investment Analyst starting from January 2027 on a 12-month contract. This role supports our investment team in finding, evaluating and monitoring breakthrough global fintech and financial services companies.
Compensation:
competitive
Responsibilities:
- Support the team in conducting due diligence on potential investments, including financial, market and company analysis
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis such as market sizing, competitive analysis and financial modelling
- Support portfolio reporting and fund analysis, including tracking our pipeline and consolidating KPIs across the portfolio; develop an understanding of portfolio company metrics over time
Qualifications:
- Master's degree or equivalent (e.g. Grande École, university Master's), preferably with a quantitative orientation (Engineering, Business, Finance, etc.)
- Experience in venture capital or growth equity, OR experience in investment banking or consulting
- A strong interest in financial services and technology
- Organized with high attention to detail and able to manage multiple priorities
- Self-starter, able to take initiative, prioritize and work independently with limited guidance
- Strong written and oral communication skills; ability to synthesize thoughts on companies and markets succinctly
- Proficient with AI tools (e.g. Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity) for research, drafting, and analysis; able to write effective prompts, integrate AI into day-to-day workflows, and apply critical judgment to outputs
- Comfortable with ambiguity in an entrepreneurial environment where things change constantly
- Demonstrated analytical skills and comfort with quantitative analysis
- A team-first mindset and genuine empathy for founders
Sagard is an equal opportunity employer, which values diversity in the workplace. We are therefore happy to accommodate any individual. We will not be sponsoring visas for either of the location. Sagard may use automated tools, including artificial intelligence, to support certain stages of the recruitment and selection process.
We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis.