Data and Analytics Associate, Transactions Management

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 Transaction Management Team is responsible for the preparation and input of all transactional data. The focus of the role is ensuring the accurate set up of investment vehicles, as well as the onboarding of new investors into the internal reporting system. Another key deliverable of the team is the input of all investment-related cashflows into the in-house database. This must be completed based on daily deadlines to facilitate both timely reconciliations and investor reporting. Responsibilities also include resolving cash breaks, answering queries from internal and external stakeholders, instructing payments through several external banking portals, quality control checks, engaging directly with the stakeholders and consulting on upstream processes. The next couple of years at Pantheon are going to be even more exciting as Operations transforms into a data-led department that incorporates technologies at the forefront of the Private Equity industry into its standard operating model. The transformation workflow is a fundamental redesign of all core processes to ensure that they’re industry leading, best in class and scalable for the next generation.

Key Responsibilities

Task management

• Responsible for data validation checks on valuation data, ensuring the team are dealing with exceptions appropriately on a quarterly basis.
• Be involved in optimising, and automating processes, tasks and activities.
• Working in conjunction with the Core Portfolio Management function, ensuring valuation data is of sufficient accuracy and coverage to support portfolio manager decision making and portfolio monitoring.
• Provide support to the Investment function in the analysis of valuation data as required.
• Training the team to ensure compliance with controls and procedures.
• Identify potential areas which would benefit from enhancements or improvement in process and implement continuous improvements.
• Coordinating Team’s MI to facilitate better management of output/workload

Transaction team responsibilities

• Approval of investor and investment cashflows into Pantheon’s in-house database, according to US GAAP standards with a view to move onto approving inputs from others.
• Entry and approval of investor and investment level static set ups within Pantheon’s in-house database, ensuring that we are working proactively with front office teams.
• Approval of multiple task specific deliverables within the team.
• Working with third party administrators to ensure best in class service.
• Execution and oversight of operation model improvements with third party administrators.
• Investigation and resolution of queries from all internal stakeholders, administrators and investment managers (General Partners).
• Manage recurring and ad-hoc query processes, including the scoping the requirements to ensure best possible service levels to the business.

Investment analysis and support

• Coordination of investor and investment 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
• Collaborate closely with Core Portfolio Management teams on existing investment monitoring and management

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Strong technical skills, with emphasis on Fund of Fund private equity (including equity, infrastructure and private debt)
• Demonstrable experience in private markets
• Proficiency with Microsoft office tools; Excel, PowerPoint etc.. and knowledge of other data analysis and visualisation tools like Power BI.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to objectively analyse technical processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to develop strong and open working 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 analysis and management techniques
• Self-starter with strong organisational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to guide and coach team members on tasks

Non-essential experience that would be advantageous;

• Related financial qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA, CFA, IMC) or working towards qualifications
• Team management 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.