Vp Fund Finance- Infrastructure

**Purpose of Position**

The VP, Fund Finance, working alongside the Principal, Fund Finance - Infrastructure & Real and the Pantheon Investment and Investor Relations teams, will play a central role in shaping the Fund Finance team in the region and designing the associated operating model. This will include establishing the operating platform from which local funds and client mandates will be supported, including any associated systems, finance, risk, valuation procedures, and other operational processes that may be required.

Reporting to: Principal, Fund Finance - Infrastructure & Real Assets

**Key Responsibilities - Fund Finance**
- During the product design/concept stage, acting as the key point of contact for the below workstreams:

- Key interface with the relevant investment teams to ensure that the investment opportunity is understood, and that the portfolio can be adequately monitored, reported on, and serviced.
- Provide financial and operational support for the set-up of new structures including working with the structuring team, internal counsel, external advisors, and investment teams to ensure that operating frameworks are set up appropriately and service providers are appropriately selected and appointed.
- Highlighting and communicating any issues to the Operations Team and working with them to update/change any process or other changes required to process, systems, etc to ensure adequate service delivery.
- Working with Finance to quantify and design the framework for management fee and carry calculations, and to provide information on the costs of servicing specific mandates.
- During the fundraising, fund closings and investment period and with a focus on fund finance and operational aspects:

- Support the Investment or Investor Relations teams, as required, with marketing activities or materials.
- Provide transaction support for acquisitions with potential tasks including assisting with the structuring advice, set-up of investment structures in accordance with tax advice, creation of new entities and close liaison with investment team to ensure transaction closing from an operational standpoint is achieved as planned.
- Attending the relevant investment team meetings to understand the current deal pipeline, future transactions and anticipating and coordinating any operational requirements.
- Working with Valuation Analytics to understand valuation specific considerations for the product, and to ensure that there is adequate and independent oversight to the valuations process, including considering any impacts for Valuation Committee to consider and other committees as may be necessary or relevant.
- Support the Investment and Investor Relations teams in client pitches and onboarding, as required with a focus on fund finance and operational aspects.
- Partner with the Investment and Investor Relations teams to provide financial and operational support to ensure that business objectives are met.
- Build, develop and maintain and develop good working relationships between the team and its internal/external clients and suppliers.
- Ensuring that the operational and internal control frameworks are fit for purpose to adequately operationally service Pantheon’s clients/funds, and that the process by which we service those clients/funds are following best practices.
- Critically assessing the funds’ operational servicing, how it can be improved in response to feedback from underlying clients, internal stakeholders and relative to the market with the intention of informing the most appropriate operational processes for the next generation of funds in the strategy. Inputting into operational strategy across funds and strategies.
- Chair or voting member of various Sub-Valuation Committees, ensuring valuations are reasonable, independent of the investment function and in accordance with Pantheon's Valuation Policy.
- Owning the fund accounting review process for local funds and clients’ funds in the region, expense management and approval and other tasks attaching to the financial statements of the fund.
- Oversight of external audits for local funds and clients’ funds in the region, which will include liaising with the funds’ external auditors and ensuring that audit queries are addressed and completed in line with deadlines.
- Quarterly and ad-hoc reporting cycles: providing direction and oversight as necessary to processes that affect performance, fund accounts and other reportable items.
- Liaising with Treasury on the liquidity and, if applicable, borrowing/leverage strategy for the fund and commitment strategy.
- Lead any fund sales, extensions and, where necessary, liquidations relating to local funds and client mandates in the region.
- Potential to provide supervision/ line management to more junior members of the team.
- Participation and preparation of analysis for any relevant committees, for example, Operational Risk Committee, Valuations Committees, Investment Committee