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Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has $61 billion in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a positive and unique culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and a commitment to professional development. For the seventh year in a row, Adams Street was named one of Pension & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management in 2024.
Employees operate as a single global team, integrating the expertise of the firm’s investment professionals across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Adams Street is considered a private markets pioneer and was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame in 2000.
The firm was founded more than 50 years ago, and clients include leading public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and high net worth individuals worldwide.
Adams Street has offices in Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
About the Team
The Portfolio Finance team focuses on deal funding, liquidity, and financing across Adams Street’s Private Equity and Private Credit investment strategies. The team manages day to day cash optimization, credit facilities, NAV facilities, and long-term forecasting with a focus on risk management and the performance of our funds.
The role of Vice President will be a leadership role within the team. The Vice President will be expected to collaborate with various teams across the firm and drive policy, control, and efficiency within the tea
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities include:
- 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 portfolios across our investment portfolio
Candidate Requirements:
- At least 7 years of investment management experience and 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
Adams Street Partners Chicago, Illinois, USA Office
1 N Wacker Dr, Suite 2700, Chicago, Illinois , United States, 60606
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