Beginning: September 2021
Location: Paris
Application deadline: 12/07/21
Description of Orange Ventures
Orange Ventures is financing startups with ambition to imagine, design and develop innovative solutions, disruptive technologies and business models of tomorrow.
With 350m€ assets under management Orange Ventures is in the top 10 corporate ventures in Europe with the investment strategy focused on helping future global tech champions, fostering innovation in the Middle East&Africa and supporting new sustainable and responsible business models
Orange Ventures is a venture fund investing in areas of Orange expertise and beyond.
The fund has set financial objectives in line with VC industry standards, leveraging proximity to the Orange Group as a main differentiator in its proposition to startups.
Portfolio
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Main activities
The role of operations and business analyst will include, alongside the CFO of the Platform and Partnerships Director:
- Support for the financial management of startups in portfolio
- You contribute to the definition of financial and extra-financial indicators to be tracked to measure the performance of investments already made (portfolio companies).
- You are working on the design and implementation of the tools to collect these indicators, and to use them to manage portfolio performance.
- You assist the CFO in setting up processes defining the roles and responsibilities of OV stakeholders and startups.
- You assist the CFO in the redesign, optimization and automation of reports to fund management and investors.
- You participate in the animation of the first pilot instances.
- Support for the business development of portfolio companies, drawing on the resources of the Orange Group
- In conjunction with the entrepreneurs, the OV investment team, and the Orange platform teams, you define the fund's service offering for portfolio startups.
- You participate in the sessions to define the needs and expectations of the entrepreneurs, following an investment.
- You structure and set up a tool to manage development actions, allowing resources to be mobilized within OV and the Orange Group.
- You contribute to the definition of the success indicators of this program.
Skills and qualities required
- Currently enrolled in a master program in a business or engineering school (or equivalent).
- Passionate about innovation and the world of startups. Knowledge of digital actors / demonstrated interest in new digital technologies and services.
- Ability to analyze, synthesize, and restitute.
- Team spirit / good interpersonal skills.