Vice President, Finance & Capital Markets
Position Overview
The Vice President, Finance & Capital Markets is responsible for overseeing liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, financing strategy, and capital markets activities across private equity and private credit investment portfolios. This role plays a critical part in ensuring the organization maintains appropriate liquidity, optimizes financing structures, manages leverage and financial risk, and supports investment deployment across evergreen, closed-end, and customized investment vehicles.
Working closely with Investment, Accounting, Middle Office, Operations, Risk, and Tax teams, the Vice President will develop forward-looking financial models, manage lender relationships, structure financing facilities, oversee foreign exchange (FX) hedging activities, and strengthen financial controls and reporting processes.
The ideal candidate combines hands-on private markets finance and treasury experience with strong analytical and modeling capabilities, commercial judgment, and an entrepreneurial mindset. This individual will be both a strategic partner and an active contributor to day-to-day financing and liquidity operations, with responsibility for building scalable processes and developing junior team members.
Key Responsibilities
Liquidity & Treasury Management
- Oversee liquidity, cash management, and financing activities across private equity and private credit portfolios, including evergreen funds, closed-end funds, and customized investment structures.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive view of current and projected cash positions, capital requirements, investment commitments, financing obligations, and anticipated distributions.
- Monitor liquidity needs across funds and portfolios to ensure sufficient cash availability for investment deployment, operating expenses, debt service, and other obligations.
- Establish and maintain liquidity monitoring frameworks, cash management procedures, and escalation protocols.
- Evaluate funding alternatives and recommend appropriate financing strategies based on investment activity, portfolio performance, market conditions, and liquidity requirements.
- Monitor cash balances, leverage levels, credit facility availability, borrowing capacity, and other key financial risk indicators.
- Identify potential liquidity constraints and develop contingency plans to address changing market conditions or unexpected cash flow requirements.
- Support treasury operations across multiple investment vehicles while ensuring compliance with applicable fund documentation, financing agreements, and internal policies.
Financial Modeling & Cash Flow Forecasting
- Build and maintain forward-looking financial models covering investment deployment, capital inflows and outflows, financing needs, liquidity projections, and portfolio cash flows.
- Develop integrated forecasting models that incorporate capital calls, investor subscriptions and redemptions, distributions, borrowing activity, repayments, and expected investment realizations.
- Forecast liquidity requirements across different investment structures, fund vintages, and portfolio scenarios.
- Conduct scenario analysis and stress testing to assess the impact of changes in investment pacing, fundraising, redemptions, portfolio performance, and financing availability.
- Evaluate the financial implications of alternative capital deployment and financing strategies.
- Prepare liquidity forecasts and financing analyses for senior leadership and investment teams.
- Improve model accuracy, transparency, and scalability through standardized assumptions, automated calculations, and documented methodologies.
- Translate complex modeling outputs into clear recommendations that support investment decisions and capital allocation.
Capital Markets & Financing Strategy
- Lead financing activities across private equity and private credit portfolios, including sourcing, evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and maintaining financing arrangements.
- Manage relationships with banks, private lenders, financing counterparties, and other capital providers.
- Structure and negotiate subscription credit facilities, net asset value (NAV) facilities, asset-backed financing arrangements, and other portfolio financing solutions.
- Evaluate financing terms, borrowing bases, covenants, collateral requirements, pricing, maturity profiles, and other contractual provisions.
- Analyze the costs and benefits of alternative financing structures to optimize liquidity, capital efficiency, and overall portfolio economics.
- Coordinate financing transactions from initial evaluation through due diligence, documentation, closing, and ongoing administration.
- Monitor facility utilization, borrowing availability, covenant compliance, repayment requirements, and refinancing needs.
- Partner with legal, tax, investment, and risk teams to assess transaction structures and ensure financing arrangements align with fund objectives and governing documents.
- Identify opportunities to improve financing flexibility, diversify funding sources, and strengthen lender relationships as the platform grows.
Portfolio Financing & Leverage Management
- Monitor leverage and financing exposure across funds, investment vehicles, and underlying portfolios.
- Evaluate borrowing capacity, collateral availability, advance rates, and facility headroom under different market and portfolio conditions.
- Assess the implications of financing decisions on fund liquidity, investment returns, risk exposure, and capital efficiency.
- Track compliance with facility covenants, borrowing restrictions, reporting requirements, and other contractual obligations.
- Coordinate with Investment and Risk teams to evaluate portfolio developments that may affect financing availability or collateral values.
- Develop reporting that provides clear visibility into outstanding borrowings, unused commitments, financing costs, maturity schedules, and potential liquidity risks.
- Recommend appropriate actions when financing arrangements approach limits or when changes in market conditions affect borrowing capacity.
Foreign Exchange & Financial Risk Management
- Oversee foreign exchange exposure monitoring and hedging activities associated with investments, financing arrangements, and fund cash flows.
- Partner with Investment, Accounting, Middle Office, Operations, Risk, and Tax teams to identify material currency exposures and evaluate hedging requirements.
- Coordinate the execution, monitoring, and reporting of FX hedging transactions in accordance with established policies and applicable documentation.
- Monitor hedge positions, settlement requirements, counterparty exposure, and the financial impact of currency movements.
- Support the development and maintenance of controls governing treasury transactions, hedging activities, and financial risk management.
- Evaluate opportunities to improve visibility into currency exposures and strengthen coordination between investment activity and treasury operations.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Stakeholder Management
- Work closely with Investment teams to align financing and liquidity strategies with investment pacing, portfolio needs, and capital deployment objectives.
- Partner with Accounting and Middle Office teams to reconcile cash positions, validate financial data, and maintain accurate financing and liquidity records.
- Collaborate with Operations to improve transaction workflows, cash movement processes, and operational controls.
- Coordinate with Risk and Tax teams to evaluate financing structures, hedging arrangements, and related financial considerations.
- Provide senior leadership with timely updates on liquidity, financing activity, leverage, risk exposure, and capital markets developments.
- Communicate complex financial and financing concepts clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Build effective working relationships across departments to ensure financing decisions are coordinated, documented, and executed efficiently.
Process Improvement, Controls & Reporting
- Develop and enhance policies, procedures, controls, and reporting frameworks supporting treasury, liquidity, and financing activities.
- Standardize processes across funds and investment vehicles to improve consistency, accuracy, and operational scalability.
- Establish reporting dashboards and management reports covering cash balances, liquidity forecasts, facility utilization, leverage, financing costs, and risk metrics.
- Identify opportunities to automate repetitive processes, improve data quality, and streamline reporting workflows.
- Strengthen controls surrounding cash movements, financing transactions, facility administration, and financial reporting.
- Ensure relevant records, approvals, reconciliations, and supporting documentation are maintained accurately and in accordance with internal requirements.
- Evaluate technology solutions and data tools that improve modeling, reporting, forecasting, and financing operations.
- Support the development of scalable finance and capital markets infrastructure as the investment platform expands.
Leadership & Team Development
- Provide guidance, mentorship, and development opportunities to junior finance, treasury, and capital markets professionals.
- Establish clear expectations, priorities, and accountability across assigned responsibilities.
- Review financial models, liquidity analyses, financing recommendations, and reporting prepared by team members.
- Promote technical development, sound financial judgment, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Support hiring, onboarding, training, and performance development as the function grows.
- Foster a proactive, entrepreneurial, and solutions-oriented team culture.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Typically 7+ years of relevant investment management or financial services experience, with approximately 8–9 years representing a strong target profile.
- At least 3 years of direct experience with private markets processes, including private equity, private credit, fund finance, treasury, liquidity management, portfolio financing, or related middle-office activities.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with financing facilities, including subscription lines of credit, NAV facilities, credit facilities, asset-backed financing, or other leverage structures.
- Strong understanding of private fund cash flows, capital deployment, liquidity requirements, financing obligations, and portfolio-level financial management.
- Advanced financial modeling and cash flow forecasting skills, including the ability to build forward-looking liquidity models and conduct scenario analysis.
- Experience monitoring cash positions, leverage, facility utilization, borrowing capacity, and financial risk metrics.
- Ability to manage relationships and coordinate financing activities with lenders, counterparties, and internal stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and financial decision-making capabilities.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex financial analyses and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and respond effectively to changing business needs.
- Proven ability to mentor junior professionals and contribute to team development.
- A proactive, entrepreneurial, and collaborative approach to building processes and improving operational effectiveness.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with evergreen investment funds, including subscription and redemption activity, recurring liquidity forecasting, and ongoing capital deployment.
- Direct private credit experience or experience in middle-office treasury, fund finance, portfolio financing, or investment operations.
- Experience with trade execution, transaction settlement, and the related cash management and financing processes.
- Experience structuring and negotiating subscription facilities, NAV facilities, and asset-backed financing arrangements.
- Background in structured finance, secured lending, collateral analysis, or credit underwriting.
- Advanced degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
- Programming or data analysis skills using Python, R, SQL, or other database and analytics tools.
- Experience automating financial models, data workflows, liquidity reporting, or treasury processes.
- Experience working across multiple fund structures, investment strategies, and financing arrangements.