Senior Valuation Lead

Partners Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial institution in Singapore is seeking a senior professional to lead the Investment Valuation Services team. Responsibilities include overseeing fund valuation processes, managing a specialized team, and collaborating with stakeholders. The ideal candidate has a degree in accounting or finance, over 10 years of relevant experience in the financial industry, and excellent analytical and communication skills. Benefits include a professional environment, mentorship opportunities, and a sabbatical after five years.

Benefits

Professional international working environment

Challenging rewarding career

Collaborative environment with mentorship opportunities

One-month sabbatical after five years of service

Fun office and team events

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in the financial industry, ideally in a controlling, audit or valuation function.
• Experience in people management with at least 3+ years in a leadership role.
• Strong understanding of different financial instruments and valuation concepts.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the Fund Valuation Control process ensuring robust processes and quality standards.
• Manage the valuation lifecycle for fund of funds investments and implement effective monitoring systems.
• Lead and develop a specialized fund valuation team, including resource planning and performance reviews.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on valuation-related matters.
• Identify opportunities to improve valuation methodologies and operational workflows.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Project management skills

Team collaboration

People management

Proficient in MS Office

SQL knowledge

Programming languages

Business analytics software

Excellent English communication

Education

University degree in Accounting and/or Finance

Tools

MS Excel

SQL

Qliksense

Job description

We are one of the largest global private markets investment managers, serving over 800 institutional investors worldwide. We have USD 174 billion in assets under management and around 2,000 professionals across 23 offices worldwide. Partners Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to cultural diversity.

What it's about

In this position, you will be part of the Investment Valuation Services team, which is responsible for the investment monitoring and valuation processes across our Indirect investments. This is a senior role, where the successful candidate is expected to spearhead the strategic oversight and operational excellence of valuation processes across our diversified portfolio of Fund of Funds investments spanning private equity, private debt, infrastructure, royalties, and real estate sectors.

Core Responsibilities

• Leading the Fund Valuation Control process: Oversee the complete Fund Valuation Control framework, ensuring robust processes, quality standards, and timely delivery of valuation outputs across all asset classes to support our daily/monthly/quarterly valuation cycles. Establish best practices and maintain regulatory compliance for our indirect investment portfolio.
• Oversight of the Fund of Funds portfolio reporting timeliness: Manage the comprehensive valuation lifecycle for our fund of funds investments, implementing effective monitoring systems such as the timely processing of General Partner Reporting and Fair Value Adjustment Process.
• Team management: Lead and develop a specialized fund valuation team, including resource planning, task allocation, mentoring and performance reviews of team members. Foster professional growth while ensuring optimal team productivity and collaboration.
• Stakeholder Management: Collaborate and build strong rapport with internal stakeholders within Partners Group as well as external parties (service providers, auditors, etc.) on valuation-related matters relevant to our indirect investments.
• Contributing to process improvement: Identify opportunities to improve valuation methodologies, reporting tools, and operational workflows. Lead initiatives to implement new technologies and streamline processes for greater efficiency and drive operational excellence while ensuring accuracy and compliance across our indirect investment platform.

What we expect

The successful candidate should have the following profile:

• University degree, preferably in accounting and/or Finance.
• Ideally 10+ years of relevant experience in the financial industry (in a controlling, audit or valuation function) with a good understanding on the different types of financial instruments and valuation concepts. Experience in understanding of private markets valuations and ability to challenge accuracy of valuations prepared is a plus. Additionally, the candidate has 3+ years of experience in people management.
• The level of seniority for the position will depend on the candidate’s relevant experience.
• Strong analytical, organizational and project management skills and a good team player. Experience in coaching and leading a small team is a plus.
• Knowledge with SQL queries, programming languages or business analytics software such Qliksense is a bonus.
• Proficient in MS Office and specifically MS Excel.
• Ability to work with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment and multi-cultural environment to achieve clear goals within a short timeframe.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with good interpersonal skills.

What we offer

Partners Group is a global financial institution that retains the culture, pace and agility of a start-up. As a growing firm, we are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best talent, by offering a workplace where results are truly recognized and rewarded.

• Professional, international working environment.
• Challenging, rewarding career within a growing company.
• Collaborative environment, with on-the-job training and mentorship opportunities.
• One-month sabbatical after every five years of service.
• Fun office and team events, including volunteer opportunities to connect with and help our local communities.

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