Vice President, Private Markets Operations
On-siteWarsaw, Mazovia, Poland
Job Summary
Ensure SDP private credit transactions and lifecycle events are captured accurately and in a timely manner in WSO. Review deal tickets, agent notices, and executed documentation to validate commercial terms before booking activity. Process new deals, add-ons, drawdowns, rollovers, rate fixes, repayments, fees, restructures, transfers, commitment updates, and position closures. Maintain accurate WSO records across deal, tranche, compartment, contract, and portfolio levels, including aggregator and blocker structures. Perform and support SDP reconciliations across positions, cash, accruals, fees, and unfunded commitments, investigating breaks and driving timely resolution with internal and external stakeholders. Interface with TPAs, loan agents, and service providers to validate notices and ensure WSO bookings remain consistent with external records. Respond to ad hoc queries from Deal Teams, Fund Accounting, Reporting, and other internal stakeholders. Support a strong control environment through four-eye checks, daily checklists, procedure documentation, and escalation of non-standard events. Contribute to continuous improvement of the SDP operating model, including booking workflows, reconciliations, controls, and stakeholder hand-offs. Contribute to procedure manuals, control documentation, responsibility matrices, and process guidance for WSO and SDP activity. Support system change, data quality, and IBOR enhancement initiatives. Represent the team in internal discussions with Deal Teams, Fund Accounting, Reporting, Technology, and external service providers. Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve transparency of SDP booking and reconciliation activity.
Required Qualifications
- Strong experience in private market operations, middle office, booking operations or asset support function within Financial Services or Investment Management, ideally within private credit or buy-side investment management
- Practical experience using WSO or a comparable loan administration / investment book of records system
- Understanding of private credit loan lifecycle events, including drawdowns, rollovers, rate changes, repayments, fees, restructures, transfers, commitment changes and position closures
- Ability to interpret agent notices, deal tickets, loan documentation and supporting materials to validate economic terms and booking requirements
- Experience performing or supporting reconciliations across positions, cash, accruals, fees and unfunded commitments, including break investigation and resolution
- Experience working with external administrators, loan agents and internal teams to ensure accurate and timely booking of deal activity
- Excellent communication skills
- Fluent English
- The confidence to explain complex operational issues to non-specialists
- Ability to work independently
- Manage competing priorities
- Operate with a strong control and risk mindset
Desired Qualifications
- Prior exposure to Direct Lending, private credit, structured debt or similar loan-based strategies
- Experience with WSO, Debtdomain, Agent portals or other loan / private markets systems
- Good Excel skills, including reconciliation analysis, pivot tables and working with large operational datasets
- Experience creating or improving procedures, controls, checklists, trackers and operating model documentation
- Experience of metrics, KPI reporting, trend analysis, issue logs or root-cause analysis
- Comfortable working in a growing team environment and contributing to scalable, standardised processes
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