Valuation Manager

Description: Valuation Manager   

Essential Functions   

• Working with the credit funds and credit products   
• Technical Valuation Experience    
• Overall Valuation Policy Ownership & Regulatory Compliance over Valuation   

Responsibilities   

• Maintain models for illiquid loans, preferred equity, and other credit related products.   
• Own the valuation methodologies including, but are not limited to, discounted cash flow (DCF), comparable and recovery analysis.   
• Lead discussions with front-office professionals on valuation model and assumptions to ensure valuations are compliant with accounting rules   
• Work closely with investment professionals to track portfolio company performance and collect financial data   
• Lead off-shore team to manage controls and tie-outs of models and underlying financial data and inputs   
• Participate in the valuation review process by auditors and external valuation agents. This includes leading calls and providing explanations regarding qualitative and quantitative aspects of the valuation models   
• Produce monthly and quarterly valuation packages for review by Board of Directors, internal committees, and the fund administrator.   
• Create executive level reporting highlighting significant changes/events, key data points and conclusions   
• Support the Finance and Accounting team on internal ad-hoc projects   
• Liaise with Operations on the monthly and quarterly close of the books and records, including review of trade and re-organization activity from a valuation perspective.     
• Work closely and assist in the management of members of offshore team members.     
• Ability to work directly with deal team and upper-level management on quarterly deliverables.   
• Assist with ongoing portfolio monitoring as well as the review of quarterly valuation models.   
• Coordinate with external auditors during the year-end audit and during quarterly reviews.   
• Ensure that effective internal controls are in place.  Provide evidence of internal control environment to external auditors on an annual basis.    
• Assist with the review of miscellaneous public regulatory filings   
• Support the CFO to streamline and improve our overall process as part of the larger Credit Platform.   
• Generate and distribute ad hoc reporting to relevant parties such as senior management, deal teams, and investors   
• Assist in preparing and analyzing pricing and valuation materials   

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities   

• Credit fund and credit product experience    
• Experience with reporting and technical valuation and modeling for credit products and funds   
• Experience working with public companies.    
• Communicates effectively with colleagues    
• Works productively in a team environment.    
• Excellent research and writing skills.