Investments Team Middle Office Associate

Fasanara; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 45 000 - 65 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Performance-related Bonus Scheme

Private Medical & Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Pension scheme

Résumé du poste

Fasanara in London is seeking a detail-oriented Middle Office Associate to join the Investments team. You will own facility administration, manage cash flows and undertake treasury-related operations across assigned portfolios, ensuring accurate recording, timely reconciliations and smooth processes.

You will collaborate with Portfolio Management, Operations, Technology and external counterparties to optimise workflows, improve controls and support month-end reporting and audits.

Qualifications

• 2–3 years of relevant experience in middle office, loan operations, fund administration, structured finance operations, agency or trustee services, or loan servicing.
• Practical understanding of lending-facility cash flows, interest and fee calculations, settlement, lifecycle events, and cash and position reconciliations.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables and handling large datasets.
• Ability to interpret operational requirements in facility documentation and translate them into practical calendars, checklists and controls.
• Excellent attention to detail and a structured approach to checking accuracy and investigating discrepancies.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with confidence to flag issues, follow up persistently and coordinate across teams.
• A proactive approach and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Responsabilités

• Facility administration and cash flows: Coordinate operational readiness for new facilities and amendments, including funds-flow schedules, reporting requirements and handovers with Operations and external counterparties.
• Administer utilisation requests, drawdowns, rollovers, reinvestments, repayments and prepayments, checking interest, fees and contractual waterfall allocations.
• Ensure required documentation, recorded approvals and operational conditions are in place before processing, escalating missing information or discrepancies.
• Maintain accurate facility records and calendars covering payment dates, maturities, reporting obligations and contractual deadlines.
• Support the onboarding of new debtors under existing agreements.
• Reconciliations and reporting: Reconcile facility and platform balances, cash movements, interest and fee accruals against internal records and third-party reports, investigating and resolving differences.
• Monitor expected facility cash flows and support Portfolio Management and Operations with fund-level cash forecasting and reconciliation.
• Provide verified data and supporting schedules for month-end NAV, valuations, investor reporting and audits, and support regulatory reporting within the role’s remit.
• Support lifecycle processing for bonds, asset-backed securities, term loans and associated FX or cross-currency hedges, where relevant.
• Controls and process improvement: Maintain clear procedures, checklists and audit trails covering inputs, checks, approvals and issue resolution.
• Work with Technology and Data teams to automate recurring checks, improve data quality and develop monitoring dashboards.
• Coordinate with borrowers, originators, servicers, administrators and agents to keep operational deliverables on track.

Connaissances

Excel proficiency

Attention to detail

Organisational skills

Communication skills

Issue resolution

Outils

Excel

Description du poste

About Fasanara

Founded in 2011, Fasanara is a global asset manager and technology platform.We manage c. USD 6 billion AUM (as of December 31, 2025) in Fintech strategies on behalf of pension funds and insurance companies in Europe and North America. With c.110 employees globally, we are a pioneer investor in Fintech Lending, enabling Real Economy Impact. Fasanara manages the largest and longest standing Fintech Lending fund in Europe and invests in early-stage Fintech companies via its venture capital vehicles, using its central role in the Fintech ecosystem to identify and back revolutionary new businesses.

Our Culture

We are strong believers in meritocracy, and we seek to reward people based on impact and excellence. The environment is collaborative, entrepreneurial, and trust based. We set ambitious goals, work extremely hard, stress the importance of teamwork, and adhere to the highest level of excellence in everything we do. We are only as good as our team. Thus, we are building the firm around exceptional talent.

About the Role

We are looking for a detail-oriented Middle Office Associate to join our Investments team in London, taking ownership of facility administration, cash flows and treasury-related operational activities across assigned portfolios. Working within the Investments team, you will gain direct exposure to investment professionals and the operational management of lending facilities. You will help ensure that transactions and ongoing facility activities are accurately recorded, reconciled and completed on time, while improving processes that allow the team to focus on monitoring and managing investments.

The role involves close collaboration with Portfolio Management, Operations, Technology and external counterparties.

Key Responsibilities

Facility administration and cash flows

• Coordinate operational readiness for new facilities and amendments, including funds-flow schedules, reporting requirements and handovers with Operations and external counterparties.
• Administer utilisation requests, drawdowns, rollovers, reinvestments, repayments and prepayments, checking interest, fees and contractual waterfall allocations.
• Ensure required documentation, recorded approvals and operational conditions are in place before processing, escalating missing information or discrepancies.
• Maintain accurate facility records and calendars covering payment dates, maturities, reporting obligations and contractual deadlines.
• Support the onboarding of new debtors under existing agreements.

Reconciliations and reporting

• Reconcile facility and platform balances, cash movements, interest and fee accruals against internal records and third-party reports, investigating and resolving differences.
• Monitor expected facility cash flows and support Portfolio Management and Operations with fund-level cash forecasting and reconciliation.
• Provide verified data and supporting schedules for month-end NAV, valuations, investor reporting and audits, and support regulatory reporting within the role’s remit.
• Support lifecycle processing for bonds, asset-backed securities, term loans and associated FX or cross-currency hedges, where relevant.

Controls and process improvement

• Maintain clear procedures, checklists and audit trails covering inputs, checks, approvals and issue resolution.
• Work with Technology and Data teams to automate recurring checks, improve data quality and develop monitoring dashboards.
• Coordinate with borrowers, originators, servicers, administrators and agents to keep operational deliverables on track.

• Typically 2–3 years of relevant experience in middle office, loan operations, fund administration, structured finance operations, agency or trustee services, or loan servicing. Relevant audit or transaction-services experience will also be considered.
• Practical understanding of lending-facility cash flows, interest and fee calculations, settlement, lifecycle events, and cash and position reconciliations.
• Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables and handling large datasets.
• Ability to interpret operational requirements in facility documentation and translate them into practical calendars, checklists and controls.
• Excellent attention to detail and a structured approach to checking accuracy and investigating discrepancies.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with confidence to flag issues, follow up persistently and coordinate across teams.
• A proactive approach and the ability to manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Experience within a fund or bank, particularly a smaller investment firm, would be advantageous. Previous exposure to asset-based finance (ABF) is desirable.

Our benefits include:

• Performance-related Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical & Dental Insurance throughBupa(including children's cover)
• Life Insurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Salary sacrifice pension withHargreaves Lansdown(currently matched up to 10%)
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Leave
• Emergency Parental Leave, Emergency Childcare & Nursery Benefit
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Charity Giving through CAF
• Annual Wellbeing Budget
• Team socials, annual Summer & Christmas parties,and other events throughout the year