Capital Advisory Analyst

Overview

Certified Contractor Roles: Analyst
· Lead
· Senior
Initio Sphere Private Capital Ecosystem – (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org

Compensation:
$50–$200/hour (based on Analyst Rating Score, credentials, and approval scope)

Initio Sphere is a full-service private capital ecosystem where capital meets talent. We serve fund managers, investors, operators, and finance professionals across private markets by integrating deal flow, analyst talent, investor relations, networking, training, and placement into a single platform.

Our mission is to promote opportunity, credibility, and real earning potential for serious private capital professionals. Capital Advisory Analysts do not wait months for placement—once verified, they can immediately begin earning income by supporting live capital advisory engagements and active transactions across our network.

Initio Sphere is seeking qualified finance professionals to join as Certified Capital Advisory Analysts.

This is not a traditional employment role. Analysts operate as independent contractors and are activated through Initio Sphere’s certification, verification, and approval process.

Once approved, Capital Advisory Analysts:

• Are promoted within the Initio Sphere platform
• Gain access to live advisory mandates and paid analytical work
• Support investors, fund managers, and operators on capital raises, acquisitions, recapitalizations, and exits
• Deliver investor-ready financial analysis and transaction support
• Build a verified deal track record and Analyst Rating Score

Certification tiers:

• Senior Capital Advisory Analyst
  · Lead Capital Advisory Analyst
  · Capital Advisory Analyst / Associate

Rating Score: 90–100

Pay: $150–$200/hour

Typical Background:

• Former investment banking, private equity, capital advisory, transaction consulting, or senior finance professionals with 5+ years of advisory or deal execution experience

Rating Score: 80–89

Pay: $100–$150/hour

Typical Background:

• Finance professionals with 3–5 years of experience in transaction advisory, modeling, valuation, or capital markets support

Rating Score: 60–79

Pay: $50–$100/hour

Typical Background:

• Entry to mid-level analysts with strong technical skills and exposure to advisory, diligence, or transaction support work

Capital Advisory Analysts are engaged based on category-specific approvals, earned through assessment and performance—not tenure.

• Support capital raises, refinancings, recapitalizations, and exit processes
• Analyze capital structures, financing alternatives, and investor fit
• Prepare advisory materials supporting pricing, structuring, and positioning
• Translate financial outputs into clear, client-ready insights
• Build and refine 3-statement financial models
• Perform DCF, LBO, and transaction-level valuation analyses
• Conduct commercial real estate and operating company underwriting
• Run sensitivity, scenario, and downside analyses
• Prepare comparable company and precedent transaction analyses
• Develop football field valuation summaries
• Perform Quality of Earnings (QoE) analysis
• Support commercial, financial, and operational diligence
• Assist with data room review and diligence coordination
• Contribute to investment memos, pitch materials, and investor presentations
• Analysts may only perform work in categories for which they are explicitly approved.

Complete the Analyst Certification Assessment or approved training

Receive category-specific approvals (Advisory Support, Modeling, Valuation, Due Diligence)

Become verified on the Initio Sphere platform

Begin earning immediately through hourly projects and live advisory engagements

No cold applications. No unpaid “experience.”
Verified Capital Advisory Analysts are actively promoted to investors and deal sponsors.

To qualify, candidates must meet at least one of the following:

• Score ≥70% in at least one category of the Analyst Certification Assessment
• Completion of Initio Sphere Financial Training
• Active professional credential (CFA, CPA, Series 7, 63, 79, or equivalent)