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PEPI: Manager, Private Equity, Fund Management Solutions (OPEN TO ALL US LOCATIONS)

Location: Chicago, IL, United States
Date Posted: Aug 23, 2024

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OVERVIEW:

A&M Fund Management Solutions works with private equity managers and provides our clients with solutions to optimize the operations of their businesses. Our goal is to improve efficiency and reduce risk around the non-investing aspects of business performance, and to provide benefits through hands-on involvement in our clients’ operations. Our job is to support PE firms to enhance and optimize how their operations function.

CFO Services Provides the following pillar of services:

  • Strategic Analytics & Planning
  • Performance Measurement & Management (Funds & Management Company)
  • Business Transformation
  • Investor Reporting
  • Valuation
  • Treasury Functions
  • Operational Review and Improvement (e.g., HR, Administration, Technology & Insurance)

PROFESSIONAL EXPECTATIONS:

Data Collection, Validation and Analysis

  • Guide team members in information gathering approach and ensure all relevant sources of information are pursued
  • Guide and lead client interviews, ask inquisitive questions and understand different stakeholders’ perspective
  • Identify knowledge gaps, guide the team to challenge status quo, validate, disprove and/or develop better assumptions
  • Identify key business challenges, pinpoint financial/accounting/operations process inefficiencies, and assess the organization’s design, roles and team
  • Ensure issues and opportunities are clearly and concisely presented
  • Understanding accounting and finance process flows and how information is consolidated into the general ledger to ensure improvement and value creation

Project Management and Implementation

  • Ability to own and complete a workstream based on the pillars of services Fund Management Solutions provides
  • Ensure that project approach, timeline and deliverables are logical, reasonable, and accurate
  • Set and communicate client’s expectation consistently
  • Employ actionable plans (e.g., create initiatives to optimize processing new investment & realizations, instill a process-oriented culture, improve transparency in processes and organizations)
  • Identify risks and obstacles early on, create contingency plans and communicating timely with client
  • Ability to identify where the pillars of services Fund Management Solutions provides are not functioning

Leadership

  • Leverage previous experience to guide and promote team to think innovatively
  • Recognize the current skill set of team members and maximize their level of contribution
  • Share knowledge and experience, provide coaching to teammates

Financial Acumen

  • Ability to build and review various financial models, provide valuable financial analysis and evaluate accounting treatments
  • Ability to provide valuable insight and improvement initiatives to senior management and board members

ACCREDITION/EXPERIENCE:

  • 7-10 years of experience related to: Accounting / Finance, Financial Due Diligence, Investment Banking or Private Equity with experience at a fund/asset manager or equivalent business strongly preferred
  • Graduate of accredited 4-year college / university with educational concentration in relevant areas (accounting, finance, economics) preferred but not required
  • CPA, CFA, or Master’s Degree Preferred but not Required

The salary range is $125,000-$190,000 annually, dependent on several variables including but not limited to education, experience, skills, and geography. In addition, A&M offers a discretionary bonus program which is based on a number of factors, including individual and firm performance.  Please ask your recruiter for details.

Regular employees working 30 or more hours per week are also entitled to participate in Alvarez & Marsal Holdings’ fringe benefits consisting of healthcare plans, flexible spending and savings accounts, life, AD&D, and disability coverages at rates determined from time to time as well as a 401(k) retirement plan. Provided the eligibility requirements are met, employees will also receive a discretionary contribution to their 401(k) from Alvarez & Marsal. Additionally, employees are eligible for paid time off including vacation, personal days, seventy-two (72) hours of sick time (prorated for part time employees), ten federal holidays, one floating holiday, and parental leave. The amount of vacation and personal days available varies based on tenure and role type. Click here for more information regarding A&M’s benefits programs.

Alvarez & Marsal recruits on an ongoing basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. Candidates are encouraged to apply expeditiously to any role(s) that they are qualified for and that are of interest to them.

Diversity & Inclusion

A&M’s entrepreneurial culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who can positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M’s core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are the main reasons our people love working at A&M. Inclusive Diversity means we embrace diversity, and we foster inclusiveness, encouraging everyone to bring their whole self to work each day. It runs through how we recruit, develop employees, conduct business, support clients, and partner with vendors. It is the A&M way.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Alvarez & Marsal’s practice to provide and promote equal opportunity in employment, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment without discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex or gender, gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, family medical history, genetic information or other protected medical condition, political affiliation, or any other characteristic protected by and in accordance with applicable laws. Employees and Applicants can find A&M policy statements and additional information by region here.

Unsolicited Resumes from Third-Party Recruiters

Please note that as per A&M policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our Inclusive Diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that A&M will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

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