Analyst, Portfolio Management

The Warehouse Administration & Portfolio Operations Analyst will serve as a critical part of the Lending Portfolio Management team. This role serves as the operational engine to fund-level performance and assists with driving levered returns for investors. You will be responsible for the day-to-day administration and facilitation of various fund leverage repo/warehouse facilities. This integral function plays a critical role in fund liability management. You will interact with institutional banks, representing the firm on a day-to-day basis. You will assist in the overall facilitation of loan drawdowns, repayments, and interest payments. You will also coordinate the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting required under each warehouse/repo facility while maintaining a detailed tracking of each facility reporting requirement. This role will also track key covenants, concentration limits, and other facility-level compliance metrics while working with the Fund Finance team and asset management teams.

Responsibilities

Coordinate repo/warehouse loan drawdowns, repayments, interest payments – ensuring facility compliance and maximising leverage efficiency; Maintain a detailed tracker of all repo/warehouse facility covenants, concentration limits, and relevant reporting dates to maintain compliance; Manage the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting requirements for each facility by coordinating inputs from Fund Finance and the Servicer; Work with Fund Treasury to coordinate the movement of cash up and down the investment structure while maintaining compliance with the bespoke loan waterfall structure under each loan facility; Attend weekly management calls to report on status updates for each leverage facility to relevant constituents; Work with Capital Markets team to transition new repo/warehouse facilities over to the Warehouse Administration & Portfolio Operations team; Assist in the effort to build new systems for tracking and organising critical accounting and financial data that is used for reporting; Build genuine subject-matter depth in the mechanics of repo and back-leverage financing, becoming a recognised operational resource for the wider team

Requirements

Proven experience in an operations role (loan operations, loan administration, fund operations or a middle-office role within lending, credit or real estate finance) or a strong analytical background with a demonstrable attention to detail and appetite to learn; Highly organised and process-driven, with the discipline to run recurring operational tasks accurately, on time, every time; Proficiency in Excel and comfort working with loan-level data; Meticulous attention to detail; A proactive, ownership-minded approach: willing to chase counterparties, question numbers that look wrong, and escalate early; Clear written and verbal communication, comfortable liaising with servicers, lenders and internal finance teams; Interest in structured finance and fund financing; Ability to use various systems in order to compile data for external output

Nice to have

Experience with warehouse/repo facilities; Exposure to borrowing bases, facility covenants or securitisation