Job Purpose:
- Assist the portfolio manager in managing the impact investing portfolios
- Perform day-to-day support activities including cash management, FX, trade instruction post-IC approval, performance attribution, reporting, impact measurement, research and analysis
- Perform monitoring on the portfolio and input to sourcing and pipeline
- Liaise with internal stakeholders including risk, compliance, operations
Key Accountabilities
Portfolio Manager:
Assist the portfolio manager in all day-to-day PM activities. Across the Impact and Healthcare PE Fund range this will include:
- Cash management, FX, trade instruction post-IC approval, capital drawdowns / distributions
- NAV reconciliation
- Reporting
- Stress testing
- Performance attribution & impact measurement
- Fund / investment monitoring
- New idea generation
- Pipeline Management
Impact Investing and Healthcare PE Team (Sustainable Private Asset Group):
Support the team in sourcing, meeting management, database maintenance, analysis and investment recommendations
Internal Stakeholder Management:
Liaise with all internal stakeholders including risk, compliance, legal, operations, audit and build effective working relationships and processes
Project Management:
Assist in co-ordinating projects in the impact investing team including new product development; process improvement; system implementation
Business Development:
Assist PSU, portfolio managers and sales in preparation of presentation material
- Experience working within Private Markets is essential
- Thorough understanding of portfolio management from the bottom-up including the associated operational processes; cash management; deal sourcing; analysis and portfolio construction
- Demonstrated multiple stakeholder management in a large financial services firm
- Previous exposure to, and a strong interest in, the impact investment sector
- Ability to bring new ideas to the investment process
- Entrepreneurial attitude and highly motivated individual
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Dedication to building long-term relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
- Comfortable communicating with all stakeholder levels internally and externally
- Self-starter with the ability to work to deadlines and manage multiple projects effectively
- Strong numerical, analytical and problem-solving skills with a high attention to detail
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
- Excellent presentation and writing skills
- Experience in asset management and relevant University degree