Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, and London. Since its founding in 1999, the firm has raised over $40 billion in capital across its Private Equity and Private Debt businesses. With more than 400 employees and approximately 180 investment professionals, the firm is a leading capital partner for North American middle market companies. For more information, visit the Audax Group website www.audaxgroup.com.
Audax Private Debt Audax Private Debt invests in established middle market companies through first lien, stretch senior, unitranche, second lien, subordinated debt, and equity co-investment solutions. We work collaboratively to build financing solutions shaped to meet the needs of our private equity clients, capital partners, and investors. Since 2000, we've invested over $37 billion across our debt vehicles. For more information, visit the Audax Private Debt website www.audaxprivatedebt.com.
POSITION SUMMARY:
As part of our continued growth, Audax Private Debt seeks an Associate to join our Private Debt Portfolio Reporting Team. The Team provides portfolio, operational, and financial reporting support to the Origination Debt investment, Investor Relations, and internal management teams. The role will lead processes and manage systems that promote efficient and effective data capture and analysis, requiring coordination with the investment team, other members of Finance, and Data Engineering.
This candidate will play a key role as the data domain owner for the portfolio reporting team and partner closely with Business Solutions/Data Engineering to evolve the team’s data strategy, including data governance and data lifecycle management.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Process development & implementation
- Maintain and improve data integrity, run regular data screens, and educate team members across departments to ensure adherence to data entry best practices
- Coordinate projects with Data Engineering to develop reports and workflows to improve quality and control of data for reporting and analysis
- Identify and implement operational improvement opportunities to maximize efficiency and build a scalable foundation for growth
- Utilize current portfolio reporting systems and models to execute data extraction, aggregation and standardization
- Assist in data consolidation and migration for system implementations
- Facilitate new reporting requests that help to monitor the performance of the portfolio
- Collaborate with investment team to identify and define relevant data metrics
- Execute operational improvements. Coordinate with finance, and Data Engineering to refine centralized databases and business intelligence processes to improve quality and control of data for reporting and analysis.
Investor Relations due diligence
- Analyze investment performance and draft reports to prospective and existing limited partners in response to due diligence requests
- Compile investment data to complete templates requested by investors
- Support preparation of quarterly/annual investment updates and portfolio company write-ups for communication to investors
Performance calculation & analysis
- Gross and net portfolio return attribution and comparative benchmark analysis
- Update monthly return and performance metric files for internal and external reporting
- Develop and convey executive level summaries and recommendations as needed
- Prepare and execute weekly and monthly reporting packages
REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Computer Science, or a related major
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience required; 4-5 years relevant professional experience preferred
- Experience and comprehensive understanding and ability to write SQl queries, Power BI, Tableau
- Experience with data warehouses, semantic modeling and business intelligence a plus
- Experience with Snowflake, Python a plus
- Proven history of process engineering and efficiency improvements with an understanding of alternative investments and private debt, mezzanine/and or direct lending experience a plus
- Advanced Excel user with experience with portfolio monitoring software (ilevel, Dynamo, Snowflake, Anaplan, BMS) a plus
- Detail oriented with outstanding quality assurance and testing skills when working with large data sets
- Must have excellent communication skills, be able to work independently, adapt to change easily and quickly, make decisions, and be highly motivated
- Strong desire to perform at a high level and grow within the organization
LOCATION: Remote, Charlotte, NC with regular required travel to New York or New York based 4 days in-office. These in-office requirements may change based on the needs of the business.
For New York City only: The base salary range for this position is [$120- $145]. The base salary range represents the estimated low and high end for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation may vary and will be determined based on but not limited to, the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and Audax reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. An employee may also be eligible for annual discretionary incentive compensation based on performance.
Audax offers a wide range of employee benefits, including health insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, paid time off (including sick leave, parental leave, volunteer leave, and vacation), charitable donation match, family support services (including Bright Horizons and Benefit Advocate Center), and a 401(k) in addition to other benefits.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
Audax Management Co. is an equal opportunity employer.
Please note that Audax Group and its affiliated entities do not accept unsolicited resumes from a third-party recruiting agency not currently under a signed agreement. Any unsolicited resume that is sent to directly to Audax Group or one of its affiliated entities, or its employees, including those submitted to hiring managers by a third-party recruiting agency not currently under a signed agreement, will be considered property of Audax Group. If a third-party recruiting agency submits a resume without an agreement, Audax Group or its affiliated entities explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the third-party recruiting agency. Any third-party recruiting agency should contact either a member of the Talent Acquisition or Human Resource team at Audax Group, in conjunction with a valid, fully executed contract for service based upon a specific job opening.
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Founded in 1999, Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco and London. With approximately $36 billion of assets under management and more than 360 employees, Audax is a leading capital partner for middle market companies, operating through three distinct business lines: Audax Private Equity, Audax Private Debt, and Audax Strategic Capital.
For more information, visit the Audax Group website www.audaxgroup.com.
