Private Equity Career Accelerator

Senna is a Private Equity Career Accelerator built to help ambitious professionals break into and build careers in private equity. We support candidates targeting opportunities across London, Dubai and the wider Middle East with job opportunities, recruiter access, tailored applications and private equity interview preparation.

Create your profile and tell us about your experience, transaction background, sector exposure, location preferences and career goals. Senna uses this information to identify relevant private equity opportunities, recruiters and hiring firms, while helping you strengthen your applications and prepare for interviews.

Senna is built for students, graduates and finance professionals looking to break into or progress within private equity. This includes candidates from investment banking, transaction services, corporate finance, consulting, private credit and other relevant backgrounds, as well as existing private equity professionals considering their next move.

Our primary focus is private equity careers in London and Dubai, alongside opportunities across the wider Middle East, including Abu Dhabi and Riyadh. Candidates can specify their preferred locations when creating their profile.

We use your profile to understand where you fit within the private equity market, including your experience, seniority, transaction exposure, target funds and preferred locations. From there, Senna can surface relevant opportunities, identify suitable recruiters and help you prepare stronger applications and interviews.

Senna supports candidates pursuing private equity internships, off-cycle placements, analyst roles, associate positions and more experienced investment roles. We also cover adjacent opportunities across growth equity, private credit, venture capital and other private markets strategies where relevant to a candidate's career goals.

Yes. Moving from investment banking into private equity is one of the core career transitions Senna supports. We help candidates position their transaction experience, identify relevant funds and recruiters, strengthen their applications and prepare for the technical, investment and deal-focused interviews used by private equity firms.

Yes. Senna helps candidates improve how they position themselves for individual private equity opportunities, including CV review, tailored application materials and guidance on presenting relevant deal, transaction and investment experience.

Yes. We help identify recruiters relevant to your seniority, background, target strategy and location. This is particularly valuable in private equity, where recruiters can specialise by fund size, investment strategy, seniority, sector and geography.

Yes. Senna supports private equity interview preparation across fit questions, deal discussions, investment judgement, accounting and valuation, LBOs, technical questions, case studies, modelling tests and firm-specific interview preparation.

Yes. Senna supports professionals exploring private equity opportunities in Dubai and the wider Middle East, including candidates currently working in London and other major financial centres. We can help you understand relevant opportunities, identify recruiters and firms, and position your experience for the Middle East private equity market.

No. You can join Senna whether you are actively applying, preparing to move into private equity in the future or simply want to understand which opportunities, firms and recruiters are most relevant to your profile.

No. Hiring decisions ultimately depend on individual private equity firms, recruiters and market demand. Senna is designed to improve your chances by helping you target the right opportunities, strengthen your positioning and prepare properly for each stage of the recruitment process.

Private equity recruiting is highly fragmented. Opportunities can be spread across funds, recruiters and direct hiring processes, while each firm may have different expectations around experience and technical ability. Senna brings these parts of the job search together, helping you find relevant opportunities, target the right recruiters, strengthen your applications and prepare for interviews.

Create your Senna profile and tell us about your experience, target roles and preferred locations. From there, we can help you identify relevant private equity opportunities and recruiters, strengthen your applications and prepare for interviews across London, Dubai and the wider Middle East.