Vice President, Portfolio Finance

Adams Street Partners•New York, NY

2d•$140,000 - $180,000

About The Position

Adams Street Partners is a global private markets investment manager with nearly $76 billion in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, fostering a culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and 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, registered investment advisors, 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 day-to-day cash optimization, credit facilities, NAV facilities, and long-term forecasting with a focus on risk management and fund performance. The Vice President role is a leadership position within the team, with firm-wide responsibility across both Private Equity and Private Credit strategies. This role involves collaborating with various teams, driving policy, control, and efficiency within the team.

Requirements

At least 5 years (Senior Associate) / 7 years (Vice President) of investment management experience
Minimum 3 years managing private market processes and portfolios (including permanent/open ended capital structures)
Experience with private markets credit facilities preferred
Advanced degrees with a background in quantitative finance/modeling preferred
Structured finance experience is a plus
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
Advanced degrees with a background in quantitative finance/modeling
Structured finance experience
Experienced user of programming languages (e.g. R), database design, and developer of analytical tools

Responsibilities

Work with Private Equity and 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 with Adams Street lenders to source and negotiate subscription line, NAV, and asset backed credit facilities
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
Manage FX Hedging processes across our investment portfolio
Direct and mentor Associates and Senior Associates supporting the team