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.
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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 Valuations Associate will be responsible for bringing subject matter expertise and application of technical knowledge to all areas of the Valuation team’s work, as well as, producing the fund valuations and maintaining data on the underlying private funds held in Pantheon’s portfolio. In addition, with support of the Senior Associate in the team, they will take responsibility for the delivery of the workload of the Valuation Team, ensuring the appropriate setting of workload and control environment to facilitate the accurate delivery of Team tasks.
The team is primary responsible for the provision of portfolio valuations to the business.
Key Responsibilities
Valuation Team Task Management
- Helping plan the Valuation team responsibilities over the course of the year through discussion with other teams, departments & stakeholders to contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the DnA Team.
- Responsible for data validation checks on valuation data, ensuring the team are dealing with exceptions appropriately on a quarterly basis.
- Accountable for balancing change & transformation activities (system migration and workflow design) with quarterly core deliverables.
- 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 junior members of the team to ensure compliance with controls and procedures.
- Limited line management of junior teammates to guide their personal development and ensure the objectives of the team are met in a smooth and timely manner.
- 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
Valuation team responsibilities
- Perform reviews and checks on the valuations input by the Team Analysts ensuring the correctness of the underlying data.
- Ensure all underlying NAVs which are taken from the GP capital account directly using NAV as practical expedient are captured accurately.
- Assist the Team manager in the day-to-day workflow management of the Team.
- Assist with the sign-off of fund valuations and be involved in the end-to-end process across the DnA (Operations) Teams.
- Assist with the production of valuation papers for the various Pantheon Valuation Committees and attendance at meetings.
- Be pro-active in coming up with initiatives and process changes to improve workflows of the team.
- Assist the team manager to perform quality assurance checks of valuations data
- Coordinate the Pantheon Fund’s audit processes from a valuation team perspective, providing input to areas that require technical expertise.
- Provide support to the Team Manager by representing the Team on DnA (Operations) wide projects.
- Coordinate Valuations Committee presentations and content tailored to the varied needs of the attendees.
- Manage ad-hoc query process, including scoping of requirements to ensure the best possible service levels to other areas of the business.
- Engage with internal stakeholders to understand valuation data needs are met, including creating data sets, and performing analysis of data as required.
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
- 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) valuations techniques, accounting and data reporting
- 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
- Private equity / fund of funds audit experience
- 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.