OPPORTUNITY

Exciting opportunity to join a recently formed portfolio monitoring team at one of the leading European alternative managers.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• ~2-4 years of experience in financial services, private markets or a related field. Candidates with accounting qualifications (e.g. ACCA), finance graduates or have gained relevant experience in a private markets buyside role are encouraged to apply
• Superior quantitative and qualitative analytical skills.
• Strong working knowledge of finance, accounting, and fluency with reading financial statements across different sectors.
• Good team player.
• Ability to act autonomously when appropriate and know when to escalate matters.
• Highly organised and attentive to detail.
• Highly motivated with a strong work ethic and a desire to learn.
• Proficiency in a European language (German, French, Spanish) a plus

• Prepare monthly portfolio company data collection for internal (e.g. portfolio monitoring, risk, financing) and external (e.g. investors) reporting in partnership with outsourced data monitoring team (when applicable).
• Assist in the preparation and coordination of quarterly portfolio monitoring reporting ahead of portfolio reviews, including supporting monitoring excel reports. Beyond preparation, it will be important to understand and analyse financial models, with the purpose of challenging the financials being reported.
• Support the development of Hayfin’s reporting framework to shape and implement best-in-class processes to support business growth.
• Support the team’s portfolio level reporting and analytics, whereby deep dives are conducted to understand industry or portfolio trends. This is a key contributor to ensuring that broader themes are considered during the portfolio construction process.
• Become key business partner for any asset level data ad-hoc requests from either internal or external parties.
• Become stakeholder in private credit data integrity and governance framework.