Client Solutions Intern - September 2026 | London

Company Overview

Ardian is a world-leading private investment house, managing or advising $200bn of assets on behalf of more than 1,920 clients globally. Our broad expertise, spanning Private Equity, Real Assets and Credit, enables us to offer a wide range of investment opportunities and respond flexibly to our clients’ differing needs. Through Ardian Customized Solutions we create bespoke portfolios that allow institutional clients to specify the precise mix of assets they require and to gain access to funds managed by leading third-party sponsors.

We also provide a specialist service for private clients through Ardian Private Wealth Solutions. Ardian is majority-owned by its employees and places great emphasis on developing its people and fostering a collaborative culture based on collective intelligence. Over 1,115 employees, spread across 22 offices in Europe, the Americas and Asia, and the Middle East, are strongly committed to the principles of Responsible Investment and are determined to make finance a force for good in society. Our goal is to deliver excellent investment performance combined with high ethical standards and social responsibility.

At Ardian we invest all of ourselves in building companies that last.

Job Purpose

Join the client solution team at Ardian, one of the world’s largest and most established private markets firms.

• You will work directly alongside senior distribution and IR professionals, gaining hands-on exposure to fundraising, client servicing, and full client lifecycle across institutional and private wealth investors. You will directly contribute to investor acquisition and retention.
• You serve as a key point of contact for LP queries, developing a direct understanding of how sophisticated institutional investors think about private markets allocation.

Job Responsibilities

• Managing and prioritising the pipeline of queries from existing local investors in the UK & Ireland, ensuring fast and accurate responses that reflect the quality of service Ardian’s client base expects. You will be coordinating with senior team members and across the global platform to resolve queries efficiently.
• Preparing and updating marketing & data room documents, cash flow projection presentations and fund performance reporting.
• Fund benchmarking and competitive analysis.
• Drafting notes from quarterly investor meetings.
• Sales enablement, ad-hoc quantitative analyses & modeling, drafting due-diligence questionnaire responses.
• Assisting on ad hoc reporting, fundraising and distribution topics as they arise.

Specialised Business and Technical Knowledge

Technical

• Very strong numerical abilities.
• Foundational understanding of accounting principles, financial modelling and private markets mechanics (Private Equity, Secondaries, Infrastructure, Private Credit, Evergreen Funds).
• Strong financial and data analysis skills with the ability to draw clear insights from complex datasets.
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint essential; coding and reporting automation skills highly valued.
• Familiarity with private markets fund structures, performance metrics, and investor reporting.

Personal

• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to produce client-ready materials to a high standard.
• Ambitious and driven with a genuine interest in private markets and investor relations.
• Ability to manage a demanding and varied workload in a fast-paced environment, prioritising effectively under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with a natural commercial instinct.
• Collaborative team player who can coordinate across functions and geographies while maintaining ownership of their own workstream.
• High level of intellectual curiosity, ability to navigate across different domains.

Education and Experience

• University degree, preferably in a quantitative discipline.

Communication Scope

• Internal Communication: daily interaction with Managing Director & Analysts in the London Client Solutions team, as well as with the broader UK IR Team (including sales, consultant engagement, product specialist and coordination team), but also with other Ardian teams like Fund Finance, Investment Team, Legal Team, Compliance Team, IT team, etc.
• External Communication: Investors, Intermediaries, Data provider platforms, Administrators.

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

At Ardian, we are proud of our diverse culture. As a forward-thinking organization, we recognize that having people from different backgrounds brings innovation and excellence. Therefore, a diverse and inclusive environment is key to our business success.

Ardian is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to our employees, applicants and candidates based on individual qualifications, without regard to gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, race, marriage or civil partnership, disability, age, religion or belief, pregnancy or maternity, as well as any other protected class. It is our policy to comply with all applicable laws governing employment practices and not to discriminate on the basis of any unlawful criteria. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of your employment including, but not limited to, hiring, placement and promotion.

Regulatory Responsibilities

Conduct Rule Staff

• Ensure compliance with all relevant statutory and regulatory requirements applicable to the role.
• Understand the Individual Conduct Rules set out by the UK Regulator and ensure compliance in letter and in spirit.

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