Job Title: Valuations and Reporting Specialist
Job Type: 12-month contract
Location: London
Hourly: £90 PAYE + holiday pay
Opportunity Overview: A fantastic opportunity has risen to temporarily join my client as a Valuations & Reporting Specialist.
My client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm’s employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries
Role Objective: The Team is seeking Maternity Cover for a Valuation and Monitoring role to support the valuation, portfolio monitoring and reporting cycles for the European Private Credit (EPC) funds. The role will sit within the Operations team and will interact closely with the broader European Private Credit team as well as internal teams.
The role will also support other workflows associated with portfolio monitoring, portfolio performance/data analysis and stakeholder reporting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a robust valuation process and ensure continued best practices to support the valuation cycles for the European Private Credit (EPC) Funds.
• Maintain the valuation model to prepare FV marks for all EPC portfolio assets.
• Liaise with third party valuation agents and auditors (internal and external) to support their independent valuation roles.
• Act as the point of contact for all valuation related questions and provide valuation support for portfolio / asset events as required.
• Provide valuation support on restructuring and bespoke investment situations.
• Take the lead on discussions where there are discrepancies in valuations and involve relevant people as needed.
• Lead the valuation committee process including preparing committee agendas and meeting materials and presenting valuation recommendations to the committee.
• Oversee the portfolio monitoring process including collating deal team inputs and commentary, reviewing the quarterly portfolio review pack, preparing portfolio summary, and discussing portfolio company performance with deal team.
• Manage the quarterly investor reporting process including preparing the portfolio overview related sections and liaising with the broader European Private Credit team on other various sections.
• Prepare track record and performance analysis at investment, portfolio, and fund level, as well as FV movements and impacts at fund and platform level.

In addition, the role will include collaboration with other EPC and company teams to develop and support the operating model. This will include:

• Support the onboarding of new portfolio monitoring and reporting system and work with the vendors to develop customised solutions.
• Maintain internal Fund / Platform dashboards.
• Support with the building out of the systems framework to deliver a scalable and efficient portfolio management function.
• Support the development of the reporting function, using automated system generated reports where possible and to meet investor and other stakeholder needs.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience within an investment manager or valuation’s role.
• Experience within the Private Credit or Leveraged Finance industry.
• Excellent working knowledge of the principals of fair value, IPEV Guidelines and valuation methodologies.
• Good understanding of valuation models and ability to translate investments economics and performance into valuation inputs.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.

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We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: gscemeaedi @ robertwalters.com. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain a robust valuation process and ensure continued best practices to support the valuation cycles for the European Private Credit (EPC) Funds.
• Maintain the valuation model to prepare FV marks for all EPC portfolio assets.
• Liaise with third party valuation agents and auditors (internal and external) to support their independent valuation roles.
• Act as the point of contact for all valuation related questions and provide valuation support for portfolio / asset events as required.
• Provide valuation support on restructuring and bespoke investment situations.
• Take the lead on discussions where there are discrepancies in valuations and involve relevant people as needed.
• Lead the valuation committee process including preparing committee agendas and meeting materials and presenting valuation recommendations to the committee.
• Oversee the portfolio monitoring process including collating deal team inputs and commentary, reviewing the quarterly portfolio review pack, preparing portfolio summary, and discussing portfolio company performance with deal team.
• Manage the quarterly investor reporting process including preparing the portfolio overview related sections and liaising with the broader European Private Credit team on other various sections.
• Prepare track record and performance analysis at investment, portfolio, and fund level, as well as FV movements and impacts at fund and platform level

In addition, the role will include collaboration with other EPC and company teams to develop and support the operating model. This will include:

• Support the onboarding of new portfolio monitoring and reporting system and work with the vendors to develop customised solutions.
• Maintain internal Fund / Platform dashboards.
• Support with the building out of the systems framework to deliver a scalable and efficient portfolio management function.
• Support the development of the reporting function, using automated system generated reports where possible and to meet investor and other stakeholder needs