Principal Accountabilities:
1) Support Performance Monitoring
- Maintain ongoing collaboration with fund managers to collect, measure, and analyse investment data.
- Prepare reports that provide clear insights into investment results across private equity, private credit, real estate, and infrastructure funds.
2) Support Enhanced Monitoring Process
- Valuation Reasonableness Checks: Apply hands-on knowledge and experience in valuing Private Credit deals.
- Using industry standard methods to value private credit investments
- Checking valuation reasonableness of Private Credit investments
- Documenting rationale and maintaining valuation consistency.
- Internal Credit Rating Assessments: Conduct internal credit assessments for private credit exposures, including:
- Analysing borrower financials and business models and assessing industry and macroeconomic risks
- Assigning internal ratings using established frameworks (e.g., Moody's, S&P, or proprietary models)
- Documenting rationale and maintaining rating consistency
- Stress Testing: Perform stress tests to evaluate emerging risks within the portfolio and assess potential impacts on investment performance.
- Significant amount of travelling is expected to execute enhanced monitoring process
3) Support the Automation of Private Markets Reporting and Analysis
- Contribute to the development and implementation of automated systems and processes to streamline data collection, analysis, and reporting for private market investments.
- Enhance the accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency of reporting through automation and process improvement initiatives.
Core Competences Required:
. Valuation of Private Credit deals
. Credit ratings assessments
. Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel and financial data tools
. Solid understanding of alternative assets classes and their unique challenges in performance measurement and risk evaluation
. Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex information clearly to diverse audiences
. Detail-oriented, proactive, and capable of working effectively in a dynamic environment
Education and Experience:
. 5years of relevant experience
. Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting or a related field