Vice President Operating Officer (Deputy COO), Private Equity

Fusion Staffing Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Fusion Staffing Partners is recruiting an experienced Vice President to support a private equity fund COO/CFO in building and operating the fund's infrastructure. The role focuses on value creation for portfolio companies, reporting, budgeting, and investor support, collaborating with stakeholders across the organization.

You will oversee portfolio monitoring, KPI reporting, and operating rhythms, driving process improvements and system upgrades in a lean environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 4+ years in private equity investing or PE-focused management consulting.
• Experience at a large private equity or alternative fund manager.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the fund's operational infrastructure and value creation for portfolio companies.
• Collaborate with deal teams overseeing day-to-day investment processes.
• Own portfolio monitoring, KPI reporting, and performance metrics for LPs and senior leadership.
• Coordinate budgeting, forecasting, and fund-level reporting with finance stakeholders.
• Manage data, calendars, and diligence workstreams across portfolio companies.

Skills

PE operations

Financial modeling

Advanced MS Office

Leadership

Analytical skills

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Our elite global Private Equity client is seeking to recruit an experienced Vice President to directly support the PE fund COO/CFO in building, managing and maintaining the fund's operational infrastructure, providing value creation to portfolio companies and serving as a key collaborator with business stakeholders managing critical operational, reporting, planning and investor support services.

Responsibilities:

• Build, manage and maintain the fund's operational infrastructure, provide value creation to portfolio companies and serve as a key collaborator with business stakeholders managing critical operational, reporting, planning and investor support services
• Collaborate with deal teams in overseeing day-to-day investment processes
• Manage and maintain deal calendars, pipeline/deal tracking, investment committee materials and scheduling, diligence workstreams, etc.
• Own the portfolio monitoring and KPI reporting process across portfolio companies, including maintaining technology requirements and the preparation of performance metrics for LPs, investment committee and senior leadership
• Own the operating rhythm and collaborate closely with finance stakeholders on budgeting, forecasting, management company reporting and expense management
• Analyze portfolio construction, industry and sector allocations and deployment pacing in conjunction with the fund's investment mandate
• Report concentration considerations and surface exposure the investment committee and deal teams
• Collaborate with business and support teams to maintain a robust operating infrastructure
• Serve as the key point of contact with fund accounting and third-party fund administrators regarding waterfall and carried-interest calculations, NAVs, valuations, capital calls, distributions and fund-level reporting
• Support process improvements, best practices, system upgrades and implementations and process automation initiatives

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 4+ years of private equity investing or private equity focused management consulting experience with a strong interest in pivoting to a business operations/COO career track
• Experience at a large private equity or alternative fund manager
• A "builders mentality" with demonstrated experience developing and implementing operating processes, infrastructure and systems
• Demonstrated experience partnering and collaborating effectively with third-party stakeholders such as fund administrators, tax advisors, auditors, etc.
• Advanced analytical skills with strong knowledge of fund structures and fund math (waterfalls, capital calls, distributions, carried interest, etc.)
• Advanced MS Office skills and financial modeling skills
• Strong leadership, problem solving and team building skills with the proven ability to thrive in environment with limited resources
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with key business and non-business stakeholders across a lean platform