I have seen linkedin's of some people who are specifically within the "Valuations" group of PE arm of megafunds like Blackstone and Apollo Global Management. They tend to come from FLDP/big 4 valuation/non-target backgrounds, which seem to make such a role within reach for me.
Can anyone here tell me more about the valuation groups within PE firms? What kind of skills does one develop there, and what kind of valuations are they performing, that they need specialized people for instead of the PE generalists that are hired from top Ivies? I'm guessing that the in-house valuations people are not running/executing the deals or doing the complex LBOs, and more like what typical big 4 valuation groups do (PPAs, but in-house?). And what are their comps/exit opps?
It kind of seems like a great way to break into PE later on as well.