Senior Leader, Alternatives Operations

Pimco; City of Westminster; Sur place; GBP 130 000 - 210 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

PIMCO, a global investment management firm, seeks a Vice President to join its London-based Alternatives Operations team. You will act as the senior operational partner to European Portfolio Managers across Special Situations, Private Credit, and related strategies, coordinating end-to-end lifecycle activities and ensuring robust controls.

The role requires deep knowledge of private credit markets, complex debt structures, and experience with outsourced service providers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or professional designation preferred.
• Minimum 8-12 years of experience supporting alternative investments, private credit, structured products, special situations, syndicated loans, or related debt products.
• Extensive experience managing complex operational processes across the lifecycle of private and originated investments.
• Strong understanding of private credit markets, loan products, restructurings, distressed debt, leveraged finance, and alternative investment structures.
• Experience supporting European investment strategies and working with European counterparties, custodians, administrators, and service providers preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple stakeholders across investment, operational, and control functions.
• Strong knowledge of financing structures, including leverage facilities, subscription facilities, warehouse arrangements, bespoke lending structures, and total return swaps.

Responsabilités

• Act as the primary operational partner to European Portfolio Managers supporting Special Situations, Private Credit, Distressed, Opportunistic and other Alternative Credit strategies.
• Provide oversight of private lending transactions, including funding, settlement, cash management, lifecycle events, restructurings, amendments, refinancings, and exits.
• Lead operational due diligence and execution readiness for new investment strategies, financing structures, separately managed accounts, and bespoke transactions.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex operational issues involving custodians, administrators, loan agents, counterparties, and outsourced service providers.
• Oversee outsourced providers performing settlements, asset setup, waterfall calculations, income processing, reconciliation activities, and investment accounting support.
• Partner with Portfolio Management, Legal, Compliance, Treasury, Tax, Product Strategy, and Finance teams to ensure timely execution of transactions and operational support of investment strategies.
• Review and challenge operational processes to identify opportunities for automation, efficiency gains, risk reduction, and control enhancement.
• Lead cross-functional projects related to technology enhancements, operational transformation, regulatory initiatives, and platform growth.
• Oversee investment monitoring processes, payment tracking, drawdown execution, financing facilities, covenant reporting, and portfolio-level operational controls.
• Review operational impacts of complex transactions, including restructurings, distressed exchanges, debt-for-equity conversions, share conversions, and special corporate actions.
• Manage relationships with banks, custodians, administrators, trustees, and other external service providers to ensure high service quality and accountability.
• Support investor, client, auditor, and regulatory inquiries related to operational processes, controls, and investment activity.
• Provide coaching, mentorship, and subject matter expertise to junior team members while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Connaissances

Excel proficiency

Operational leadership

Private credit knowledge

Financial modeling

Formation

Bachelor's degree required

Outils

Bloomberg

SQL

Description du poste

PIMCO, a global investment management firm, seeks a Vice President to join its London-based Alternatives Operations team. You will act as the senior operational partner to European Portfolio Managers across Special Situations, Private Credit, and related strategies, coordinating end-to-end lifecycle activities and ensuring robust controls.

The role requires deep knowledge of private credit markets, complex debt structures, and experience with outsourced service providers.