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Fractional Due Diligence Investment Analyst (Advisor Network)

Arootah · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteFinanceFull-time
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for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title. We need to extract content from posting. Let's parse the posting: - Opportunity Overview: description of Arootah network. Could be "About the role"? Actually "Opportunity Overview" maybe about the role. We'll treat as "About the role". Provide paragraph(s). - Why Join the Arootah Network: bullet list of benefits? It lists: Alt-industry-only engagements..., Project-based work..., Client origination... This could be "Benefits". But we need to ensure we have specific content. It's more like why join; could be considered Benefits. We'll put under Benefits. - About Arootah: description of company. Could be "About the role"? Actually it's about the company. Could be "About the role" or maybe we could have a section "About the company"? Not in allowed headings. Allowed headings are limited to those list. We could put under "About the role" maybe combine overview and about Arootah? But we need to follow instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can only use those headings. We need to map content to these. We have: - Responsibilities: Core Areas of Expertise list (many bullet points). That fits. - Requirements: "What You Bring" list (skills, experience). That fits. - Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements; but we can treat "What You Bring" as Requirements. Could also have Qualifications separate but we might not need both if content similar. We can include Qualifications if there is distinct content like education, certifications. Not present. So we may skip Qualifications. - Skills: maybe we could extract specific skills from "What You Bring": organizational skills, analytical, problem solving, communication, presentation, MS Office, ability to represent firm, familiarity with alternative investments, etc. Could be Skills section. - Benefits: Why Join the Arootah Network bullet list. - Pay: not mentioned. So skip. - Schedule: not mentioned (project-based work that fits around existing commitments). That is schedule info? It mentions project-based work that fits around existing commitments. That could be considered Schedule. But it's vague. The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. It does state "Project-based work that fits around existing commitments" which is schedule-related. So we could include Schedule with that statement. - About the role: we could combine Opportunity Overview and maybe Why Join? But we already used Why Join for Benefits. Opportunity Overview could be About the role. Let's structure:

About the role

Opportunity Overview Arootah engages a curated network of senior operators to support clients across the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Advisors are deployed on project-based engagements when client needs match their expertise. Joining the network does not guarantee placement; it provides access to opportunities as they arise.

Maybe also include "Why Join the Arootah Network" as Benefits.

Benefits

  • Alt-industry-only engagements with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices
  • Project-based work that fits around existing commitments
  • Client origination and engagement management handled by Arootah; advisors focus on delivery

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive investment and operational due diligence on fund managers and investment strategies, analyzing investment process, portfolio construction, risk management practices, operational controls, performance attribution, and legal/regulatory compliance.
  • Lead due diligence meetings and manager interviews across diverse strategies including hedge funds (long/short equity, credit, multi-strategy), private markets (private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure), niche alternatives (litigation finance, royalties), and traditional long-only portfolios in both SMA and commingled fund formats.
  • Perform comparative analysis and peer benchmarking, evaluating investment managers against industry peers, relevant benchmarks, and existing platform offerings to contextualize findings and identify differentiation factors.
  • Prepare detailed due diligence reports and investment memos, documenting strategy assessments, risk factors, operational capabilities, and clear recommendations for presentation to investment committees and executive leadership.
  • Review and analyze investment materials, including pitch decks, DDQs, performance reports, risk disclosures, offering documents, and audited financials to prepare for manager meetings and identify key areas of inquiry.
  • Assess operational infrastructure and controls, evaluating fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians, valuation procedures, NAV processes, trade reconciliation, and back-office capabilities to identify operational risks.
  • Evaluate risk management frameworks, analyzing position sizing, portfolio construction, leverage usage, liquidity management, stress testing, and scenario analysis to assess downside protection and risk-adjusted return potential.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Sales teams, providing investment expertise to support contract negotiations, regulatory assessments, marketing materials review, and client education on strategy characteristics and risks.
  • Monitor existing manager relationships, conducting ongoing due diligence, performance monitoring, strategy drift analysis, and organizational change assessments to ensure continued alignment with investment objectives.
  • Provide market intelligence and industry education, delivering updates on investment trends, emerging strategies, manager developments, and regulatory changes to sales, marketing, and investment teams.
  • Build and maintain due diligence frameworks, developing standardized assessment criteria, scoring methodologies, peer comparison tools, and best practices for consistent and rigorous manager evaluation.
  • Support special projects including new strategy research, platform expansion initiatives, operational due diligence deep dives, manager transition planning, and investment policy statement development.

Requirements

  • Highly motivated individual who has demonstrated success in prior work experience, and who is able to execute independently on assigned tasks
  • Excellent organizational skills, ability to track multiple projects and handle multiple priorities
  • Strong analytical, problem solving, communication and presentation skills
  • High degree of proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite programs
  • Ability to professionally represent the firm
  • Familiarity with alternative investments, asset classes and strategies
  • Develop ideas of possible improvements to the diligence process
  • Demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative, team environment
  • Ability to meet tight deadlines and dynamically shifting priorities
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Project-based work that fits around existing commitments

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About the role

Arootah engages a curated network of senior operators to support clients across the alternative investment industry, including hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices. Advisors are deployed on project-based engagements when client needs match their expertise. Joining the network does not guarantee placement; it provides access to opportunities as they arise. Learn more: https://arootah.com/

Benefits

  • Alt-industry-only engagements with hedge funds, private equity firms, and family offices
  • Client origination and engagement management handled by Arootah; advisors focus on delivery

Schedule

Project-based work that fits around existing commitments

Responsibilities

  • Conduct comprehensive investment and operational due diligence on fund managers and investment strategies, analyzing investment process, portfolio construction, risk management practices, operational controls, performance attribution, and legal/regulatory compliance.
  • Lead due diligence meetings and manager interviews across diverse strategies including hedge funds (long/short equity, credit, multi-strategy), private markets (private equity, real estate, credit, infrastructure), niche alternatives (litigation finance, royalties), and traditional long-only portfolios in both SMA and commingled fund formats.
  • Perform comparative analysis and peer benchmarking, evaluating investment managers against industry peers, relevant benchmarks, and existing platform offerings to contextualize findings and identify differentiation factors.
  • Prepare detailed due diligence reports and investment memos, documenting strategy assessments, risk factors, operational capabilities, and clear recommendations for presentation to investment committees and executive leadership.
  • Review and analyze investment materials, including pitch decks, DDQs, performance reports, risk disclosures, offering documents, and audited financials to prepare for manager meetings and identify key areas of inquiry.
  • Assess operational infrastructure and controls, evaluating fund administrators, prime brokers, custodians, valuation procedures, NAV processes, trade reconciliation, and back-office capabilities to identify operational risks.
  • Evaluate risk management frameworks, analyzing position sizing, portfolio construction, leverage usage, liquidity management, stress testing, and scenario analysis to assess downside protection and risk-adjusted return potential.
  • Collaborate with Legal, Compliance, and Sales teams, providing investment expertise to support contract negotiations, regulatory assessments,

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