A private equity investment manager is seeking a Performance and Data Analyst. This new role will be the firm's expert on fund and portfolio investment performance and will work closely with the firm's Portfolio Management on performance reporting. This role will support the firm's Client Service and Investment teams in providing timely information about investments and risk.
Responsibilities:
- Track, monitor, and report the performance of a series of private equity and credit funds
- Understand all aspects of the firms' complex investments to discuss and explain performance with internal managers and clients
- Perform financial and quantitative analysis on the firm's portfolio investments
- Run discounted cashflow valuation models
- Respond to portfolio manager requests for risk exposure and concentration risk
- Will work on performance analysis and reports, fund valuation, waterfall calculations, and fund fees
- Will work with technology to develop KPI dashboards that provide timely analysis of fund performance
- Work with technology to improve (automate) the ability of the firm to respond to investors requests for valuation and performance details
Requirements:
- Must have 3+ years working as a fund performance or portfolio valuation analyst with a firm that has complex and illiquid private equity and credit investments
- Must have a deep understanding of how a complex private equity investment fund works
- Must have strong financial reporting and analysis skills covering performance, valuation, waterfall calculations for fund distribution, and fund fees.
- Must have data analysis technical skills: SQL, Python
- Must have experience using business intelligence and data visualization tools
- Must have a quantitative, statistics, or finance degree. Fund Accounting academic work is preferred
- Preference will be given to candidates who have strong statistical and data skills for insightful analysis
- Nice to have: Understanding of asset pricing, econometric models, time-series analysis, and macroeconomics
- The role requires superior oral and written communication skills and the ability to deliver complex information in written and oral presentation forms.
Keywords: Fund Performance, Valuation, Waterfall Calculation, Fees, Reporting, KPI Dashboards
Please send your resume to Jim Geiger ...@analyticrecruiting.com