Our client, a global private equity and infrastructure investor, who offer Hybrid working currently seek a Valuations Manager to lead the London-based Valuations team.

The Senior Associate, Valuations Manager will be responsible for producing the fund valuations and maintaining data on the underlying private companies held in the compnay's portfolios, which are used in investment due diligence as well as for ongoing investment monitoring. You will also be responsible for managing the team as well as the timely and accurate delivery of all team tasks

Key Responsibilities

• You'll be a proven manager responsible for leading a growing team, work cross-functionally with stakeholders, and play a central part in transforming operational systems and controls.
• Manage the Valuations team day to day BAU workload
• Planning of the Valuations team responsibilities throughout the year to ensure overall objectives of the Operations department are met.
• Oversee and review the preparation of the quarterly Valuation schedule and input of the subsequent valuations by the team.
• Continual review of controls to proactively mitigate or reduce operational risks, including liaising with other teams for any areas with cross team impacts.
• Ensure all underlying NAVs which are taken from the GP capital account directly using NAV as practical expedient are captured accurately.
• Key escalation point for resolution of technical valuation matters arising during normal activities.
• Present key updates to the firms Global Valuation Committee, and put decisions into action.
• Responsibility for the overall audit of valuations, coordinating other team members to ensure all audit activities proceed smoothly.
• Perform reviews and checks on the valuations input by the Team Analysts ensuring the correctness of the underlying data.
• Ensuring data quality targets are met, overseeing integrity checks and statistical analysis techniques.
• Guiding the team through complex queries or valuations, providing expert oversight.
• Monitoring and updating the valuations operating model, including control framework
• Lead on areas of transformation for systems and processes.

Staff management

• Manage objectives, motivations and all training needs ensuring individual development in accordance with company HR policies and practices.
• Conduct regular one to ones with team as well as formal semi-annual and annual appraisals

Essential Must have Experience

• Strong technical skills, with emphasis on Fund of Fund private markets valuations techniques.
• 7+ years post qualified ACCA/ACA (or equivalent experience).
• Ability to work independently to objectively analyse technical processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to develop strong and open relationships.
• Project management qualifications/experience.
• Experience of process changes
• Experience of working with offshore teams.
• Experience in data manipulation & visualization tooling (VBA, Python, PowerBI, etc.)