Senior Associate (FTC)

Posted 17 Days Ago
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London, England
Senior level
Financial Services
The Role
The Senior Associate will manage a team responsible for investor and investment setups, transaction bookings, and operational processes in the Private Equity sector. The role includes improving team processes, implementing training, project managing changes, and overseeing vendor relationships while focusing on consistent improvement and meeting targets.
Summary Generated by Built In

Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments and secondary purchases, across private equity, real assets and private credit.

We have partnered with more than 650 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with approximately $65bn in discretionary assets under management (as of December 31, 2023).

Leveraging our specialized experience and global team of professionals across Europe, the Americas and Asia, we invest with purpose and lead with expertise to build secure financial futures.

For further details please visit www.pantheon.com

Purpose of Position:

The Private Equity (PE) world relies heavily on the management of transactions within funds. These transactions can often be complicated, especially in treatment. In addition, Pantheon’s strategic direction has put a greater importance on the management of “non-PE” investment structures and transactions. Therefore, the setup of new deals and their corresponding transaction bookings are becoming more complex and bespoke. The incumbent will be responsible for managing the team responsible for all investor and investment setups and transaction processing.

Pantheon Operations is going through significant change to enable the support of more complex, unusual and time sensitive activity. The incumbent will work with the Transaction Management manager to improve team process and staff towards the strategic target operating model.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Day to day management for some of the Transaction Management team and processes. Meeting daily targets in a controlled and efficient model.
  • Develop personal technical skills in respect of the Private Equity industry and Pantheon process. Develop personal technical skills to become “subject matter expert” and develop the team’s knowledge and understanding.
  • Managing the objectives & development of a team of est. 6 staff. Support the team through changes being implemented. Implement training plan and maintain training matrix.
  • Enable the team to develop and enhance daily processing of all transactions and setups. Project manage changes being implemented & provide reporting as required.
  • Active day-to-day management of the company’s main Vendor. Pantheon lead for weekly joint service meetings. Analysis on vendor metrics & delivery of information to head of department.
  • Monitoring team objectives and deliverables to drive consistent improvement.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

  • Experienced Operations manager with a track record in managing people, process & controls.
  • Demonstrate experience as a leader of people.
  • Demonstrate experience in implementing process change.
  • The ability to lay out processes, controls & procedures in simple, clear formats including data flows, controls matrices, etc.
  • Very good communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Experience of working in a busy team, working to tight deadlines & an understanding of the importance of metrics to manage operations.
  • Ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
  • Excellent attention to detail and experience of overseeing large-scale datasets in order to attain high levels of accuracy.
  • Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and the desire to understand why a process exists, not just how to complete it.
  • Operations / Middle Office Management experience a requirement.
  • Experience in transaction processing.
  • Experience of onboarding new clients and investment vehicles.
  • Experience in Private Equity a benefit but not essential.
  • Experience in payment & securities processing a benefit but not essential.
  • Familiarity with online banking/payments processing is preferred but not required.

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.



The Company
London
449 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1982

What We Do

Pantheon is a leading global private markets firm currently investing on behalf of more than 800 investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations. Pantheon has an established reputation across private market asset classes, including private equity, infrastructure and real assets, private debt and real estate, and covering all stages and geographies. As of September 30, 2021 Pantheon had $81.2 billion assets under management and advice and the firm currently has around 400 employees, including more than 115 investment professionals, located across its 10 global offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago Hong Kong, Seoul, Bogotá, Tokyo, Dublin and Berlin.

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