Direct Lending - Summer Intern 2026

Key Responsibilities

This internship is part of Hayfin’s summer programme and offers exposure to the full spectrum of private credit investing. Interns will work within a collaborative, diverse, and dynamic team, contributing to real investment processes and portfolio management activities.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Support investment and due diligence processes, including credit risk analysis, financial modelling, presentation of investment opportunities, and documentation preparation.
• Conduct macroeconomic, industry, and market research.
• Assist in monitoring financial and operational performance of portfolio companies.
• Contribute to quarterly portfolio reviews and investor reporting.
• Collaborate with team members to identify trends and risks across the portfolio.
• Participate in team meetings and gain exposure to investment decision-making.

Skills/capabilities

We’re looking for someone who:

• Demonstrates an outstanding academic background. You will be proactive, able to work on your own undertaking research across a range of topics, produce a summary of your research and present this to parties across the team/wider organisation.
• Understands basic accounting, corporate finance and valuation concepts.
• Has strong analytical and numerical skills and is comfortable analysing and processing financial data.
• Is a proven team player.
• Has a proven track record of using MS Office products, especially MS Excel, at an intermediate level.
• Communicates fluently in English, both verbally and written and is able to articulate complex ideas simply and summarise them effectively.

Requirements

Key attributes

We would like our interns to:

• Be passionate about financial markets and get excited about the role of financial markets in the wider economy.
• Demonstrate strong organisational skills; be able to juggle multiple priorities and meet committed deadlines.
• Be attentive to details, see things others don’t see, be able to complete all tasks even under time pressure.
• Commit to excellence and maintain high professional and ethical standards.
• Explore the problem, identify innovative solutions, and present them to others.
• Be articulate, presenting with gravitas, making others listen.
• Converse in other languages (desirable, not mandatory).

As an employer we are committed to promoting and protecting physical and mental wellbeing of all staff.

Summer Internship Dates are: 22 June 2026 - 14 August 2026