Associate, Portfolio Reporting Private Debt

Founded in 1999, Audax Group is a leading alternative investment manager with offices in Boston, New York, San Francisco, London and Hong Kong. With approximately $42 billion of assets under management and more than 475 employees, Audax is a leading capital partner for middle market companies, operating through three business lines: Audax Private Equity, Audax Private Debt, and Audax Strategic Capital.

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Based in New York, Audax Private Debt is a leading debt capital partner for North American middle market companies. Since its inception in 2000, the firm has invested more than $44 billion in support of over 295 private equity sponsors. Audax Private Debt works collaboratively to build tailored financing solutions for its clients through a comprehensive range of offerings that includes first lien, stretch senior, unitranche, second lien, and subordinated debt, as well as equity co-investments. Audax Private Debt is an experienced and trusted partner with senior leadership averaging more than 26 years in private credit and 15 years working together at the firm through multiple economic cycles. For more information, please visit audaxprivatedebt.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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 IT.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Process development & implementation

• Identify operational improvements to maximize efficiency and build a scalable foundation for growth. Refine centralized databases and business intelligence processes to improve quality and control of data for reporting and analysis

• Work to evolve the team’s data strategy, including data governance and data lifecycle management

• Maintain and improve data integrity, run regular data screens, and educate team members across departments to ensure adherence to data entry best practices

• 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

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

• Create automation that will streamline the preparation of quarterly/annual investment updates and portfolio company write-ups for 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, Accounting, Economics, or a related major; CPA or CFA a plus

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant professional experience required; 4-5 years preferred

• Experience with data warehouses, semantic modeling and business intelligence a plus

• Experience with PowerBI, Tabular Editor, Snowflake, SQL or Python a plus

• Advanced Excel user with experience with portfolio monitoring software (Dynamo, Anaplan, Allvue fka Black Mountain) a plus

• Proven history of process engineering and efficiency improvements with an understanding of alternative investments and private debt experience 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: New York, NY. 4 days/week 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 $115,000- $140,000. 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.