Your roadmap to landing a PE associate role. Mike walks you through on-cycle and off-cycle recruiting, working with headhunters, choosing target firms, and preparing for interviews through to managing offers.
Navigate PE Associate Recruiting With Confidence
Get PE Associate Interview Ready with a veteran of UBS LA (now Moelis LA), Golden Gate Capital and HIG, who has led trainings at KKR, Carlyle, Sixth Street, and countless other top-tier firms.
Build world-class LBO skills to handle any model test. Cut through the noise to the 3 to 5 factors that compose a credible thesis.
See every deal like the partner who makes the hiring decision.
I was a student of Mike when I was preparing for banking, and his coaching (both in terms of technical competencies as well as broader career development) was instrumental in my path to a career in banking and eventually private equity.
One of the main reasons I got an offer and returned full-time by being able to show my coherence in modeling and understanding the drivers.
Top private equity firms see hundreds of banking analysts with near-identical resumes. Your certificate signals:
You invested in a thorough, practitioner-built curriculum, not random YouTube playlists.
Mike’s background across IB, PE, mutual funds, and hedge funds, and nine years at Columbia, backs your story.
Shows you’ve put in structured reps for associate interviews, from LBO model cases to investment discussions.
The math is simple
This might be the best investment you ever make.
Master a simple, powerful framework to break down any company, determine its core drivers, and craft credible modeling assumptions. In just a few hours, gain the business judgment it usually takes 5-10 years to acquire on the job.
Master a ‘closed loop’ approach to Financial Modeling where every input flows logically through the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. Nail down tricky concepts like working capital projections (e.g., DSO, DPO, etc.) so you understand the underlying intuition behind the model build instead of just memorizing keystrokes.
Learn the ins and outs of LBO model mechanics from transaction assumptions to returns analysis using visuals that break down the trickiest concepts: sources and uses, the pro forma balance sheet, and the debt waterfall. Gain a deep, intuitive understanding of how the model actually works, giving you a perspective that is simply not taught in traditional modeling courses.
50+ exercises covering every LBO variant from a 20-year career. Master every building block, from sources and uses, taxes and NOLs to management incentive plans and minimum equity structuring. Walk into any model test or deal ready for whatever they throw at you.
Walk through a private equity deal from start to finish, the way it actually happens on the job. At every key decision point, see how both the buyer and the seller think, what each side is solving for, and what’s really being said between the lines. Show up on day one already reading deals like a seasoned pro.
Most analysts get lost when they first dig into a company. Learn how to figure out which variables actually matter, and build a thesis you can defend in front of an investment committee.
Get clear, step-by-step frameworks for every paper LBO you’ll face, from basic to reverse to advanced, plus extra paper LBO practice. Sharpen your speed with a mental math framework that covers all the major operations. You’ll also learn how to tackle the four most common non-model cases in PE interviews.
Two options. Same comprehensive training. You choose what works best.
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Best valueIf you’re here, chances are you’re trying to break into high finance and build real skills that actually matter once you’re there. I know how hard that path can feel, because I’ve lived it.
I started my journey at a non-target school. I didn’t have a built-in network or a clear roadmap. I had to learn (often the hard way) what actually matters in interviews and on the desk.
Over time, I worked across investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, and mutual funds, and later began teaching as an MBA professor at Columbia. I've also spent years training professionals at leading finance firms.
What became clear to me was this: most finance training is outdated and focused on memorization, not real understanding.
Financeable is the training I wish I had starting out. It’s designed to help motivated candidates prepare the right way, develop real judgment, and have an edge over anyone who uses 'traditional' Wall Street Training.
If you’re willing to put in the work, you can break into Wall Street...and Financeable is here to help you along the way.
Most finance courses teach you like it’s 1995 with static slides, audio voiceovers, and walls of text. Research shows that visuals and animations are far more effective when you’re dealing with holistic systems. And an LBO is about as holistic a system as it gets.
When you SEE an IRR bridge build bar by bar, from revenue growth to margin expansion to cash flow, your brain builds a mental map of where returns really come from. The concept sticks.
When you WATCH a multiple move as you pull each lever (growth, margin, capital intensity and risk), you internalize why one business trades at 8x and another at 12x. You don’t just memorize, you understand.
This isn’t just ‘pretty animations’ for the sake of design. It’s empirically-backed learning that ensures you learn faster and retain more than with other programs. And when you’re presenting your case to a mega fund partner and they start pulling apart your assumptions?
You don’t panic. You don’t freeze. You don’t fumble through a model you can’t explain. You see the framework in your head. And you defend your numbers with confidence.
Watch actual samples from the course and see why students call our approach ‘unlike anything else.’
Before Financeable, I felt like there was a huge gap between what was taught at my university and what was actually needed for investment banking and private equity recruiting. I was able to apply concepts directly in difficult interviews with firms like Lazard Investment Banking and Roark Capital Private Equity. I genuinely felt more confident discussing industries, business models, costs, competitive advantages, and operational drivers because of Financeable.
