Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for an innovative approach to investing in secondaries, co-investments, and primary fund investments, as well as capital formation across commingled funds, evergreen vehicles and customized solutions. Our specialist investment capabilities span multiple strategies across private equity, infrastructure and real assets, and private credit. Through our collaborative and committed culture, we find new ways to solve complex problems together and deliver innovative investment opportunities across private markets. Pantheon currently manages approximately $82.3 billion in AUM across all its strategies, serving more than 750 institutional and 638 private wealth clients worldwide
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Purpose of Position
Pantheon is a complex business with challenging customers, sharp stakeholders, and an ambition to deliver data-driven insights with the highest degree of efficiency and effectiveness.
The Transaction Management Team is responsible for the preparation and input of all transactional data. The focus of the role is ensuring the accurate set up of investment vehicles, as well as the onboarding of new investors into the internal reporting system. Another key deliverable of the team is the input of all investment-related cashflows into the in-house database. This must be completed based on daily deadlines to facilitate both timely reconciliations and investor reporting. Responsibilities also include resolving cash breaks, answering queries from internal and external stakeholders, instructing payments through several external banking portals, quality control checks, engaging directly with the stakeholders and consulting on upstream processes. The next couple of years at Pantheon are going to be even more exciting as Operations transforms into a data-led department that incorporates technologies at the forefront of the Private Equity industry into its standard operating model. The transformation workflow is a fundamental redesign of all core processes to ensure that they’re industry leading, best in class and scalable for the next generation.
Key Responsibilities
- Approval of investor and investment cashflows into Pantheon’s in-house database, according to US GAAP standards with a view to move onto approving inputs from others.
- Entry and approval of investor and investment level static set ups within Pantheon’s in-house database, ensuring that we are working proactively with front office teams.
- Approval of multiple task specific deliverables within the team.
- Execution and oversight of operation model improvements with third party administrators.
- Investigation and resolution of queries from internal stakeholders, administrators and investment managers (General Partners).
- Reviewing & improving the team’s tasks including automation to ensure efficiency in output.
- Collaborate closely with Core Portfolio Management teams on existing fund managament and investment monitoring inquiries.
- Manage recurring and ad-hoc query processes, including the scoping the requirements to ensure best possible service levels to the business.
- Mentoring, encouraging and supporting team development.
Knowledge & Experience Required
- Experienced professional working with data in a financial environment.
- Strong technical skills, with emphasis on private markets (including equity, infrastructure and private debt).
- Ability to work collaboratively and develop strong and open working relationships
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience in operational process improvement.
- Experience of ensuring timely and accurate delivery, working with tight deadlines
- Strong focus on control and procedures is essential.
- Highly numerate and analytical.
- Self starter with strong organisational skills
- Good working knowledge of MS Office, advanced in Excel.
Non essential experience that would be advantageous;
- Team management experience.
- Experience of working with offshore teams.
- Experience in data manipulation & visualization tooling (VBA, Python, PowerBI, etc.)
- Related financial qualification (e.g. IMC)
This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. You may be required to perform other job-related duties as reasonably requested by your manager.
Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't perfectly align we'd still encourage you to apply.
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Pantheon Ventures London, England Office
4th Floor, 10 Finsbury Square,, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 1AF
