Senior Associate, Portfolio Finance
About The Position
Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with nearly $70 billion in assets under management. The firm is employee-owned, fostering a collaborative culture and commitment to professional development. Adams Street operates as a single global team, integrating expertise across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Founded over 50 years ago, the firm serves leading global clients including pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, and high net worth individuals. The Portfolio Finance team focuses on deal funding, liquidity, and financing across Adams Street’s Private Equity and Private Credit investment strategies, managing cash optimization, credit facilities, NAV facilities, and long-term forecasting with a focus on risk management and fund performance. This Senior Associate role is key to the team, supporting the Private Credit function in New York, and will collaborate with various firm teams to drive policy, control, and efficiency.
Requirements
- At least 5-7 years of investment management experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience working in a private credit role in portfolio finance, treasury, or similar
- Familiarity with BDCs and CLOs
- Experience with private markets credit facilities and/or structured finance preferred
- Advanced degrees with a background in quantitative finance/modeling preferred
- Strong quantitative, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a financial engineering mindset
- Familiarity with treasury and financing function, products and providers
- Experience communicating and collaborating across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Maintains accuracy and quality when working within tight deadlines
- Experienced user of programming languages (e.g. R), database design, and developer of analytical tools are desirable
- Ability to prioritize and independently execute assigned projects while directing and managing support staff
Nice To Haves
- Experience with private markets credit facilities and/or structured finance
- Advanced degrees with a background in quantitative finance/modeling
- Experienced user of programming languages (e.g. R), database design, and developer of analytical tools
Responsibilities
- Work with Private Credit investment teams, Investment Strategy & Risk Management (ISRM), Operations, Accounting, and Tax teams to optimize liquidity and usage of financing for Adams Street’s portfolios (evergreen, closed ended and custom mandates)
- Build and maintain forward looking models to project cash flows from new deal pipeline, capital inflows/outflows, asset lifecycle events and financing transactions to help plan deployment strategy
- Monitor portfolios and take actions to manage cash levels, financing facilities, target leverage and key performance metrics
- Work across various internal teams to coordinate the sourcing, maintenance, and accuracy of projections used in making economic decisions
- Build and monitor portfolio risk metrics to measure against pre-established risk guidelines (e.g. leverage, cash levels) in growing and dynamic portfolios
- Complete FX Hedging processes across our investment portfolio
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match
- Profit sharing
- Flexible spending accounts (FSA)
- Paid parental leave, including adoption
- Generous paid time off
- Commuter benefits
- Employer-paid short-term disability insurance
- Employer-paid long-term disability insurance
- Employer-paid life insurance
- Access to additional voluntary benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
