Finance Manager - Portfolio Monitoring - Private Wealth
As part of Coller’s ongoing multi-product strategy, Coller are recruiting a proven Finance professional to help in establishing and operating openly-traded investment products, servicing private wealth channels and individual investors. This role will work under the leadership of Coller’s Private Wealth Fund Controller, and closely with existing London & New York based Finance department, Front Office, Legal & Compliance, Tax and Investor Relations members of the Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions team. The candidate will be expected to foster strong relationships with various counterparties and service providers, both internally and externally, in order to deliver for our investors.
The Manager will encounter a broad remit and this opportunity exposes you to a diverse range of areas in Finance and beyond to ensure there is positive challenges in the role that allow you maximise your strengths. Reporting to Coller’s Private Wealth Fund Controller, you will have responsibilities to value the product’s investments as well as other areas within portfolio monitoring. The products are established under the Investment Companies Act 1940 (“40 Act”) and equivalent structures, such as UCI Part II SICAVs in Luxembourg. The role will involve working collaboratively across the organisation including but not limited to monitoring new deals, working with investor relations & working with external parties like valuation specialists and auditors. The role will include, but is not limited to:
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring and confirming the accuracy of investment valuations provided by underlying investment managers. Working on Coller’s valuation adjustments model, ensure the tradeable NAV is up to date for the aged Manager valuation
- Work with external providers, like valuation specialists & auditors, to ensure the accuracy of the valuations
- Responsible for preparing the Valuation Committee pack.
- Tracking progress of new deals and ensuring that any multi-currency funding, multi-region structuring, and reporting requirements are in line with our strategic objectives and are appropriately communicated to the Administrators, Treasury, Investment and Execution (legal) teams.
- Summarising the performance of the funds’ portfolio in a quarterly review pack. Pack is presented to senior stakeholders within the firm.
- Ongoing governance of investment performance, working alongside the Investment Team and CIO Office. This entails probing information around funding requirements, exit assumptions and underlying performance improvement plans
- Collaborate with our Investor Relations team to deliver investment performance analysis for investors and aiding fundraising through the review of investment materials
- Working alongside our tax and execution teams to manage complex underlying structures, and the teams administering them in a wide range of jurisdictions.
- Partnering with Middle Office/IT teams to innovate market-leading investment platform functionality
The Candidate
At Coller Capital, the key to our success is the efforts and skills of our people. As Manager, you will work across the business as part of an innovative and proactive team that is focused on finding solutions for our investors. This unique role allows the right candidate to build out new offerings while working closely with Finance’s existing 50+ strong, collaborative, and mutually supportive team. The Manager will work within the Private Wealth team which has 8 person team.
We value effective communicators who possess the ability to marry strong technical skillsets with an understanding of the ‘bigger picture’. The role will have responsibility for significant areas of work, whilst managing multiple competing priorities. The successful candidate would be encouraged to form opinions and make recommendations on strategy and workflows. This is a high-profile role and provides a top-performing candidate with the opportunity to manage key workstreams and interact with senior stakeholders on a daily basis, whilst adding value to the business as a whole.
You will see your efforts deliver tangible results and you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a meritocratic environment. We recognise, support, and value effort and outside of the box thinking. Our corporate structure shuns hierarchy and bureaucracy – preferring agility, teamwork and innovative thinking. We are committed to supporting the learning and development of team members, through both structured training programmes and informal channels.
Essential experience:
- Newly Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) - up to 3+yrs PQE
- Strong organisational and motivational skills, with excellent attention to detail
- Strong Excel skills
Desirable experience:
- Experience in one of the Top 10 firms or within a PE firm/Asset Manager
- Experience working with or for debt or credit funds
- Senior stakeholder interaction
- Knowledge of company and / or debt investment valuation approaches
- Experience in Business Intelligence / Data Analytics / Process Change
- Experience working alongside Administrators/third party providers
Competencies:
- Excellent interpersonal skills; able to create, develop and maintain strong business relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively in a growing, fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities within deadlines
- Ability to take responsibility for significant areas of work and deliver with minimal supervision showing an accountable and proactive approach
- Demonstrate an ability to assimilate and adapt quickly to new knowledge and concepts
- Ability to problem solve and bring solutions to influence decision-making
- Ability to identify efficiencies and work collaboratively to drive change
- Demonstrates a positive attitude; places value on and contributes to a collaborative and supportive team culture
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where individuals can develop their talent and express themselves as part of a high achieving team. As investors, we value diverse perspectives, backgrounds and experience and actively look for these qualities in candidates.
Please let us know if we can make any reasonable adjustments at interview in order to fully support and promote your talent.
- Department
- Finance
- Locations
- London
About Coller Capital
Coller Capital, founded in 1990, is one of the leading independent investors dedicated to the private capital secondaries market– and widely acknowledged as an innovator at the complex end of secondaries.
The firm provides liquidity solutions to private markets investors worldwide, acquiring interests in private equity, private credit, and other private markets assets. With headquarters in London, and offices in New York, Hong Kong, Beijing and Seoul, Coller’s multinational investment team has a truly global reach.
In January 2021, the firm closed Coller International Partners VIII, with committed capital (including co-investment vehicles) of just over $9 billion and backing from over 200 of the world’s leading institutional investors. In February 2022 the firm closed Coller Credit Opportunities I, with committed capital (including co-investment vehicles) of c.$1.45 billion and backing from over 30 institutional investors.
In March 2023, Coller Capital announced the creation of its global Private Wealth Secondaries Solutions (“PWSS”) business to provide further access to private capital markets for high-net-worth individuals.
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