Job Description
Role Description
The Fund Finance Portfolio Management Analyst position falls within the Portfolio Management and Agency team in the Bank's Fund Finance Solutions Department ("FFSD"). The primary role will be as a Power User for a new software that is being onboarded to develop best in class reporting capabilities related to the tracking, monitoring, and analyzing of collateral values for FFSD’s global fund finance portfolio. As a Power User, you will become a subject matter expert for everything related to the database including its rollout, enhancements, and ensuring data is updated in a timely and accurate manner. Secondary duties relate to broader portfolio management responsibilities including, but not limited to: exposure tracking, adherence to risk thresholds, profitability tracking and forecasting, and the preparation of presentations for key internal stakeholders and regulatory bodies.
In addition to developing a strong technical knowledge base around data management, you will develop a deep understanding of multiple fund finance products, centered around the core subscription finance offering. You’ll also learn portfolio management/banking best practices and industry trends/developments from a market leading team in the Fund Finance lending sector.
The ideal candidate would have a genuine interest in developing a career in banking with a focus/ inclination towards data management using Excel and low code databases. The candidate should have an innate desire to find ways to complete work and establish processes in a more efficient and reliable manner. The candidate would be keen to join a highly competitive, market leading team within one of the fastest growing areas of finance.
Role Objectives: Delivery
- Create insights from the proprietary data obtained from FFSD’s access to the composition of capital commitments to the largest private equity funds in the world
- Develop standardized excel templates using INDEX(MATCH()) and other formulas that will be fed into the reporting database and materially boost update efficiency
- Responsible for the routine and ad hoc updates of deal and collateral values in the database
- Assist with downstream reporting and analysis derivative from the database’s data
- Help build out and establish policies, procedures, and user guides related to the new reporting database
- Contribute to planning functions including determining profitability, projecting budget, extrapolating and stress testing funding scenarios, and global pipeline management
- Reconcile conflicting workbooks/data sets and remedy the root cause
- Monitor and provide reporting on the portfolio-level regarding risk frameworks, exposure management, and other KPIs and limits
- Prepare internal and external presentations for senior stakeholders and regulatory bodies
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in finance, accounting, economics, computer science, or related field
- Knowledge of basic corporate finance and accounting
- Familiarity with corporate banking, bank regulations, risk and compliance factors and regulatory matters a plus
Required Skills/Abilities
- Inherent pride in one’s work
- Impeccable attention to detail
- Desire for continued learning, and ability to expand role over time
- Moderate experience in Microsoft Excel
- Experience with, or desire to learn about, low-code databases/ systems of record
- Strong written and oral communication skills with an ability to communicate effectively with all levels across the organization
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively to meet strict and competing deadlines
- Highly collaborative and flexible in a team and client environment and ability to form good relationships
- Proficient using Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint)