Tripple is looking for an Investment Associate/Senior Investment Associate, who is excited by the potential to use capital as a force for good, to join our team. This person will play a critical role in our team and work, helping to assess and invest in new opportunities and work with us to continually push the boundaries of investing and impact.

About Tripple

Tripple is a private investment company using a combination of investment, grantmaking and catalytic capital to create positive impact. We seek a better future for all and are lucky to have a team who share this passion. Tripple is a certified B Corp and we are proud to be part of a community of businesses doing things differently. You can find out more about Tripple at www.tripple.com.au

Who are we looking for?

You are perfect for this role if you are a values-driven investment professional, driven by understanding and exploring the ways that innovative approaches to business and investment can accelerate clean technologies, natural conservation and renewal, social justice and cohesion, and opportunities for underserved communities. 

The ideal candidate for this role has prior investment experience and is excited to apply these skills investing for impact in a values-driven business and under a multi-asset portfolio.

You bring a strong commercial sensibility, with a mission and values orientation also underpinning your work. You have a good understanding of the spectrum of ESG and Responsible Investing and will be able to assess opportunities based on potential for positive impact as well as negative externalities alongside commercial opportunities and risks.

You are comfortable with financial and market analysis and have a well-developed ability to interrogate commercial opportunities. You are reflective on the thought processes you apply to examining deals and you are always looking to improve both the rigour and efficiency of your analysis. 

Some of the examples of work you'll do in the role:

• Evaluate opportunities and manage deal pipeline: Perform impact screens and assess new opportunities across all asset classes, including start-ups, VC funds, property, fixed interest and public equities. 

• Develop investment memos: Evaluate and write up opportunities from both a financial and impact lens, develop recommendations and present these back to the team.

• Conduct due diligence processes and legals: Dive into Data-Rooms and surface key Opportunities and Risks, Suggest appropriate terms and manage the process for legal documents (terms sheets, loan agreements, subscription agreements, etc.)

• Process improvement: Analyse and improve methods of assessment, investment and reporting on all dealflow to maximise effectiveness and efficiency

• Portfolio management: supporting our portfolio companies, honing our follow-on investments and informing our overall portfolio construction. Monitoring and communicating key updates on our portfolio of investments. 

• Portfolio reporting: overseeing internal reporting on the impact and financial performance of our portfolio companies and portfolio overall. 

• Research and deep-dives: Up-skill fast on new impact and investment trends, providing points of view where necessary, and providing the team with regular scans of trends and market movements. 

• Attend relevant events and conferences and develop your own industry networks, representing Tripple in communities and ecosystems that we’re proud to be part of and where we want to promote deal flow.

• Post key investment updates and announcements to Tripple’s LinkedIn page 

• Manage our investment process from end-to-end: assessing deals, writing papers, making investment recommendations and leading our Investment Committee meetings. You will be the owner of our deal flow processes and consistently making tweaks and improvements to these processes.

Key skills, experience & attributes

• Investment experience: the ideal candidate will have prior investment experience. 

• Purpose Driven: The best person for this job will driven by creating positive social and environmental impact within their work.

• Curious and Systems Thinker: You can question the status quo, think critically and can engage with big, complex problems and the systems that create them. 

• Numerical skills and detail orientation: when it comes to numbers as well as written information you value accuracy and quality of information and communications

• Quick Learner: You're experienced in doing rapid deep dives and getting up to speed on a range of complex topics, find experts to learn from, relevant courses you're excited about and can develop a point of view. You believe in better not perfect and consistent iteration based on new information.

• Excellent Communication Skills: You can articulate your idea across spoken, written, and visual mediums with the right mix of information and critical analysis. You're not afraid to have an opinion and clearly articulate this.

• Strong Team player: You take initiative, manage your own priorities and know the right time to loop in members of the team. You proactively seek to support the team, taking accountability for your own work as well as the overall goals of the team. Ambiguity doesn't bother you, and you're keen to work with Tripple as we learn and grow. 

• Ownership Mentality and Adaptability. No job is too small. Like all of us at Tripple, you're happy to roll up your sleeves, adapt quickly and do the task at hand. You actively seek ways to make us all perform better and know the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You care about your professional reputation which translates to delivering quality work internally as well as to external stakeholders and communities.

Working at Tripple

This role is full-time (~38 hours/week) with flexible hours. Location is flexible within Australia.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status. We are taking applications through Applied recruiting software for unbiased hiring, to ensure every applicant gets an equal chance of success.

We are small and nimble and are always in the process of defining our practices so looking for someone who will help set our norms and processes.

Other benefits

• Flexible working. We encourage working remotely and flexible hours to accommodate the other things that contribute to your full life.

• Learning and Development. We are on a constant learning journey and you will receive a learning and development budget to spend on whatever you’d like to learn.

• Days off for impact. Is there a protest you want to attend, a beach clean up or a charity marathon you want to run? We offer additional days off for impact activities that do not contribute to your annual leave.