Private Equity Summer Analyst

Position: 2026 Private Equity Summer Analyst
Location: Greater London

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Final date to receive applications:
October 24, 2025

The team you’ll join

Step Stone’s Private Equity (PE) team diligences and invests in opportunities across the private equity landscape. The team will invest directly in companies alongside other sponsors, complete LP and GP-led secondary transactions, and evaluate primary investments on behalf of Step Stone’s advisory and discretionary clients. Through analysis of leveraged buyout deals and funds, Step Stone’s PE team works across a wide array of industries and capital structures.

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The Role

Step Stone is currently seeking penultimate and final year undergraduate students or students enrolled in a master’s degree with excellent quantitative, qualitative and interpersonal skills for an intern position on Step Stone’s Private Equity Team. Step Stone offers Summer Analysts a unique opportunity to achieve a valuable learning experience working across the private equity industry. Through analysis of private equity funds and investments, Summer Analysts gain exposure to a wide array of industries and capital structures, and become accustomed to a variety of private equity funds and investment strategies.

What You’ll Do

Summer Analysts will work in a team environment to target and perform due diligence, including financial modelling and preparation of investment memorandums, on opportunities across the Private Equity team’s three investment verticals: private equity fund investments, co-investment transactions and secondaries transactions. Summer Analysts will have the opportunity to prepare and present recommendations, with the investment team, to the Firm’s Investment Committee.



Key Responsibilities

• Analyze and conduct diligence on co-investment opportunities and secondary transactions
• Interact with fund managers/portfolio company management teams to conduct in-depth portfolio and asset-level underwriting and analysis
• Perform quantitative and qualitative research and financial modeling/analysis on companies and assets across industries and geographies
• Conduct due diligence on potential fund investments (team, strategy, performance), and synthesize findings in an investment memorandum to be presented at the Firm’s Investment Committee
• Speak with senior executives to gather insights regarding the style and effectiveness of target fund managers
• Perform market research using publicly available information and proprietary databases to identify, quantify and analyze macroeconomic trends across a variety of industry sectors
• Construct an argument around an opinion and effectively communicate that argument

What We’re Looking For

• Obtain a bachelor’s degree in 2026 or be enrolled in a master’s degree
• At least one relevant 3 or 6-month internship in the Financial industry, Consulting, or other relevant work experience
• High proficiency in MS Word, Power Point and Excel
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrable analytical capabilities, including strong quantitative/modeling skills
• Ability to represent the Firm credibly in written and interpersonal communications
• Flexibility—Step Stone is a dynamic and entrepreneurial organization; all professionals are expected to perform multiple functions as the firm continues to grow and develop
• Promote and demonstrate a positive, team-oriented attitude
• Foreign language skills (desirable)

Why join us?

At Step Stone, we foster a supportive and inclusive team culture where collaboration and learning are the core of what we do. Our collegial atmosphere encourages teamwork, mentorship, and professional development. This summer internship is a great…