Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for providing innovative solutions covering the full lifecycle of investments, from primary fund commitments to co-investments and secondary purchases, across private equity, real assets and private credit.
We have partnered with more than 650 clients, including institutional investors of all sizes as well as a growing number of private wealth advisers and investors, with approximately $65bn in discretionary assets under management (as of December 31, 2023).
Leveraging our specialized experience and global team of professionals across Europe, the Americas and Asia, we invest with purpose and lead with expertise to build secure financial futures.
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Purpose of the Position
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Business Analyst to join Pantheon’s Change team on a permanent basis. The Business Analyst will engage with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation and support project delivery across multiple areas including strategy, business change, systems development and implementation. They successful candidate will be expert in the practice of eliciting, validating and tracking business and system requirements from initiation through to successful delivery. They will have broad experience working on a variety of technology and operational change projects in the financial services sector. The candidate will have strong stakeholder management skills and ability to work independently with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
Key Responsibilities
The Business Analyst is expected to assume the following responsibilities plus any other reasonable duties as required:
- Develop a clear understanding of new projects, including eliciting objectives, scope and success criteria
- Gather and document business and system requirements, collaborating with technology and business team partners to drive consensus
- Define and document end-to-end business process maps, data flow models, use cases and entity relationship diagrams and other relevant project artefacts
- Work with business, technology and architecture colleagues to verify and validate requirements against solution delivery at each step of the lifecycle
- Pro-actively establish working relationships with key stakeholders and subject matter experts
- Support the successful adoption of business and IT change within the business community by maintaining engagement with the user base, enabling training and support as required
- Consistently own and drive through project issues to a successful resolution with the respective teams in a timely manner
Knowledge and Experience:
- Strong track record of delivering projects in the financial services sector is a must, ideally Private Markets or Fund Management
- Knowledge of the investment and investor relations lifecycles and related systems and processes (CRM, Data Management, Reporting etc)
- Ability to elicit and document detailed business requirements including provision of rationale and relevant context
- Ability to elicit and document end-to-end business process flows at all levels using BPMN using appropriate tools (e.g. MS Visio)
- Experience of Waterfall and Agile Scrum project life cycles within a structured environment
- Experience with backlog management in Azure DevOps or Jira
- Exposure to working with external third-party vendors and partners
- Experience running workshops with both business and technical stakeholders to elicit business processes and requirements, review analysis and validate documented project artefacts
- Ability to develop and execute stakeholder engagement strategies, build strong rapport, constructively challenge stakeholder assumptions and mediate between conflicting requirements ensuring consensus
- Ability to communicate complex solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and succinct manner
- Ability to communicate rationale behind business processes and bring business teams/stakeholders and senior partners into alignment
The following is desirable, but not essential
- Business Analysis qualification and certifications (e.g. BCS Business Analysis)
- In depth knowledge of Private Markets including Private Equity and Private Credit and related business processes
- Experience working on CRM system delivery (Salesforce, MS Dynamics, Altvir, DealCloud)
- Project management, scrum master or team management skills
This job description is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements. You may be required to perform other job-related duties as reasonably requested by your manager.
Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't perfectly align we'd still encourage you to apply.
What We Do
Pantheon is a leading global private markets firm currently investing on behalf of more than 800 investors, including public and private pension plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations. Pantheon has an established reputation across private market asset classes, including private equity, infrastructure and real assets, private debt and real estate, and covering all stages and geographies. As of September 30, 2021 Pantheon had $81.2 billion assets under management and advice and the firm currently has around 400 employees, including more than 115 investment professionals, located across its 10 global offices in London, San Francisco, New York, Chicago Hong Kong, Seoul, Bogotá, Tokyo, Dublin and Berlin.
