Data and Analytics Senior Associate, Valuations

Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments and secondary purchases, across private equity, real assets and private credit.

We have partnered with more than 650 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with approximately $65bn in discretionary assets under management (as of December 31, 2023).

Leveraging our specialized experience and global team of professionals across Europe, the Americas and Asia, we invest with purpose and lead with expertise to build secure financial futures.

For further details please visit www.pantheon.com

DnA Overview

The Data and Analytics (DnA) team is a newly established function that integrates the Data Integrity and Portfolio Analytics teams. DnA plays a critical role in supporting key functions across the organization, including Investment, Investor Relations (IR), Core Portfolio Management (Core PM), and Fund Finance. At its core, the DnA team plays foundational role in Pantheon’s data ecosystem, ensuring accurate ingestion and integrity of Pantheon’s core data —including client, managed fund, deal, investment, and asset data. This disciplined approach to data stewardship powers actionable portfolio analytics that are essential to: 

• Enhancing the investment decision-making process
• Improving transparency and engagement with clients
• Enabling data-driven portfolio and financial oversight

By centralizing and reinforcing data governance and analytical capabilities, DnA serves as a strategic enabler, delivering insights that drive performance and operational excellence across the investment lifecycle. 

Data Integrity Overview

This role is part of Pantheon’s newly-formed Data Integrity group—an agile, collaborative function focused on ensuring accurate and timely data across the full investment lifecycle. From client and fund data to deal, investment, and asset-level information, we work to maintain a comprehensive and high-quality data foundation that fuels everything from day-to-day operations to portfolio reporting and strategic oversight. 

The Data Integrity function operates through four interconnected squads—Transaction Management, Transactions Control, Valuations, and Portfolio Data—each bringing a focused perspective while working together to ensure seamless and trustworthy data flows. 

By joining this team, you'll be part of a dynamic environment that’s a critical pillar of Pantheon’s operational infrastructure, enabling trustworthy data flows that underpin investment decision-making, regulatory compliance, and client service excellence. 

Purpose of Position

The Senior Associate, Valuations Manager will be responsible for producing the fund valuations and maintaining data on the underlying private companies held in Pantheon’s portfolios, which are used in investment due diligence as well as for ongoing investment monitoring. They will also be responsible for managing the team as well as the timely and accurate delivery of all team tasks.  

The Valuations team is primarily responsible for the provision of portfolio valuations to the business.

Key Responsibilities:

Management of Valuations team workload

• Planning of the Valuations team responsibilities throughout the year to ensure overall objectives of the Operations department are met.
• Oversee and review the preparation of the quarterly Valuation schedule and input of the subsequent valuations by the team.
• Continual review of controls to proactively mitigate or reduce operational risks, including liaising with other teams for any areas with cross team impacts.
• Ensure all underlying NAVs which are taken from the GP capital account directly using NAV as practical expedient are captured accurately.
• Key escalation point for resolution of technical valuation matters arising during normal activites.
• Present key updates to the firms Global Valuation Committee, and put decisions into action.
• Responsibility for the overall audit of valuations, coordinating other team members to ensure all audit activities proceed smoothly.
• Supervising the teams processes and data flow within Pantheons systems of record.
• Perform reviews and checks on the valuations input by the Team Analysts ensuring the correctness of the underlying data.
• Ensuring data quality targets are met, overseeing integrity checks and statistical analysis techniques.
• Guiding the team through complex queries or valuations, providing expert oversight.
• Monitoring and updating the valuations operating model, including control framework
• Lead on areas of transformation for systems and processes.

Staff management

• Manage objectives, motivations and all training needs ensuring individual development in accordance with company HR policies and practices.
• Conduct regular one to ones with team as well as formal semi-annual and annual appraisals.
• Support the team through ongoing transformation projects, helping pivot their role to be more analytical.
• Develop and sustain a culture of collaboration.
• Cascade agreed global Operations behaviours and corporate objectives to the wider team
• Working with senior team members to coordinate workload in order to meet complex and competing priorities.

Investment analysis and support

• Coordination of valuation level data for usage by other investment and IR professionals across the firm
• Produce and review analysis prepared by junior team members to assist with investment opportunities across Pantheon’s asset classes

Internal and external stakeholder management:

• Own Valuations team relationship with the third-party service providers (e.g. Third Party Administrators).
• Manage ad-hoc query process, including the scoping of requirements to ensure best possible service levels to the business.
• Collaborate closely with Core Portfolio Management teams on existing investment monitoring and management
• Act as a first point of contact with other internal teams, managing the internal relationships.
• Guiding and collaborating with colleagues to achieve the objectives in a smooth and timely manner.

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Strong technical skills, with emphasis on Fund of Fund private markets valuations techniques.
• Significant post qualified ACCA/ACA (or equivalent) experience
• Ability to work independently to objectively analyse technical processes.
• Ability to work collaboratively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to develop strong and open relationships.
• Strong focus on control and procedures is essential.
• Experience of ensuring timely and accurate delivery, working with tight deadlines.
• Experienced professional working with data in a financial environment.
• Knowledge of data management techniques.
• Self starter with strong organisational skills.

Non essential experience that would be advantageous:

• Project management qualifications/experience.
• Experience of process changes
• Experience of working with offshore teams.
• Experience in data manipulation & visualization tooling (VBA, Python, PowerBI, etc.)

This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. You may be required to perform other job-related duties as reasonably requested by your manager.

Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't perfectly align we'd still encourage you to apply.