Full-Time
Venture Philanthropy Investment Associate
London or Paris based
Posted on 12/13/2025
Rothschild & Co
Independent financial advisory, M&A, wealth management
No salary listed
London, UK + 1 more
More locations: Paris, France
Hybrid
 Finance & Banking (1) |
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- a minimum of 5 years of professional experience including at least 3 years in the impact investment field within our target markets (Europe)
- Location: France, Belgium or the UK with hybrid role and travel to Paris on a regular basis
- Fluent French and English
- Strong skills in Microsoft Office (Excel/PowerPoint) and Data analysis
- Financial Analysis and Modeling, including experience with equity transactions and ability to assess financial viability, risk return profiles
- Expertise in developing and implementing impact frameworks and methodologies for assessing social and environmental impact
- Portfolio management skills including monitoring performance and risk assessment
- Ability to conduct in-depth market and sectors research to inform investment decisions
- Role requires to produce thematic research and investment memos
- Experience leading due diligence process in collaboration with a dedicated investment team
- Assisting with deal execution work streams
- Contributing to monitoring of existing portfolio companies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to build effective and long-term relationships across teams and geographies
- Proactive, analytical and detail-oriented
- Willingness to learn and adapt
- Exceptional organizational skills
- Ability to work independently and take responsibility
- Positive attitude, humility, empathy and commitment to social and environmental impact
- Produce thematic research to identify most relevant impact investment themes
- Regularly produce research reports and presentations to update the team on investment opportunities
- Screening and evaluating investment opportunities against established investment thesis
- Researching the sectors in which our potential targets operate
- Leading due diligence process in collaboration with a dedicated investment team
- Preparing investment memos
- Presenting investment opportunities to the foundation management, board and investment committee.
- Assisting with deal execution work streams
- Contributing to monitoring of existing portfolio companies
- Experience in venture philanthropy, in particular in impact investing, or corporate foundations
- Experience in developing impact assessment frameworks or indicators
- Bilingual in French and English or strong proficiency in both languages
- Knowledge of the philanthropic sector and governance structures of foundations
Rothschild & Co is an independent financial advisory group that provides advice on mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy, financing, and offers investment and wealth management solutions for large institutions, families, individuals, and governments. Its services combine independent, objective guidance with execution, drawing on a global network of specialists across more than 40 countries to help clients grow, protect, and optimize wealth and business outcomes. The company emphasizes its long history as a family-controlled firm (over 200 years) and its ability to deliver consistent, reliable execution through an extensive network and experienced professionals. The goal is to support clients through complex financial decisions and transactions by offering tailored advice and trusted, end-to-end support.
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Company Stage
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Total Funding
$208.5M
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1798
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Ilga Haubert from Fidelity strengthens UK investments since January 2026.
- Grégoire Salignon leads Rothschild Martin Maurel across five countries.
- Tenalis AG acquisition expands Swiss succession and tax services.
What critics are saying
- UBS raids Zurich talent, eroding Rothschild client book in 6-12 months.
- Leadership changes disrupt UK and French client relationships in 12 months.
- Small Tenalis buy fails versus UBS dominance in Swiss wealth.
What makes Rothschild & Co unique
- 200-year family-controlled network advises nobility and royals.
- Independent M&A advisory serves institutions and governments.
- Global team of 4200 specialists across 40 countries.
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Company News
Rothschild & Co has appointed Grégoire Salignon as head of its French private bank Rothschild Martin Maurel, replacing Alain Massiera. Massiera will remain in an active strategic role. Salignon joined Rothschild & Co in 2002 as a wealth planning specialist and became deputy chief executive of Rothschild Martin Maurel in 2023. From 12 April, he oversees the firm's wealth management operations across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and Monaco. Massiera has led Rothschild Martin Maurel's wealth and asset management activities since 2011, during which time assets under management increased 6.5 times. He will continue working with major clients and expansion projects, including the Italian branch launch and Monaco subsidiary support. Executive chairman Alexandre de Rothschild said the transition ensures management stability aligned with client expectations.
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The acquisition expands Rothschild & Co's portfolio of services for Swiss Wealth Management clients across succession planning, taxation services and real estate consulting. The existing management of Tenalis AG remains in place.
Grant Thornton UK - which provides accounting, tax and advisory services - is working with advisers at Rothschild & Co. as it weighs strategic options, the people said.
Rothschild & Co has recruited Alonso Pastor as a client executive within its wealth management division in Zurich.