Data and Analytics Associate, Portfolio Data

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.

For further details please visit www.pantheon.com

DnA Overview 

The Data and Analytics (DnA) team is a newly established function that integrates the Data Integrity and Portfolio Analytics teams. DnA plays a critical role in supporting key functions across the organization, including Investment, Investor Relations (IR), Core Portfolio Management (Core PM), and Fund Finance. At its core, the DnA team plays foundational role in Pantheon’s data ecosystem, ensuring accurate ingestion and integrity of Pantheon’s core data —including client, managed fund, deal, investment, and asset data. This disciplined approach to data stewardship powers actionable portfolio analytics that are essential to:  

• Enhancing the investment decision-making process  

• Improving transparency and engagement with clients  

• Enabling data-driven portfolio and financial oversight  

By centralizing and reinforcing data governance and analytical capabilities, DnA serves as a strategic enabler, delivering insights that drive performance and operational excellence across the investment lifecycle.  

Data Integrity Overview 

This role is part of Pantheon’s newly-formed Data Integrity group—an agile, collaborative function focused on ensuring accurate and timely data across the full investment lifecycle. From client and fund data to deal, investment, and asset-level information, we work to maintain a comprehensive and high-quality data foundation that fuels everything from day-to-day operations to portfolio reporting and strategic oversight.  

The Data Integrity function operates through four interconnected squads—Transaction Management, Transactions Control, Valuations, and Portfolio Data—each bringing a focused perspective while working together to ensure seamless and trustworthy data flows.  

By joining this team, you'll be part of a dynamic environment that’s a critical pillar of Pantheon’s operational infrastructure, enabling trustworthy data flows that underpin investment decision-making, regulatory compliance, and client service excellence.  

Purpose of the Position

The Portfolio Data Associate will be responsible for technical delivery of the workload of the Portfolio Data Teams ensuring appropriate setting of workload and control environment to facilitate the accurate delivery of Team tasks. They will be responsible for bringing subject matter expertise to all areas of the Portfolio Data team’s work.

The Team is primarily responsible for: the collation, provision and analysis of underlying portfolio/company data to the business, covering private equity, infrastructure and private debt. This data covers over 20,000 underlying companies and spans areas including static classification data, investment performance data, and company level financial data such as Revenue, EBITDA and net debt levels, and used for a wide variety of purposes including prospective investment analysis and existing investment monitoring and management.

Key Responsibilities

Management of the Portfolio Data team workload

• Helping plan the Portfolio Data team responsibilities over the course of the year through discussion with other teams, departments & stakeholders to contribute to meeting the overall objectives of the DnA Team.
• Responsible for data validation checks on portfolio data, ensuring the team are dealing with exceptions appropriately on a quarterly basis.
• Accountable for balancing change & transformation activities (system migration and workflow design) with quarterly core deliverables.
• Be involved in optimising, and automating processes, tasks and activities.
• Working in conjunction with the Core Portfolio Management function, ensuring portfolio data is of sufficient accuracy and coverage to support portfolio manager decision making and portfolio monitoring.
• Provide support to the Investment function in the analysis of portfolio data as required.
• Training the team to ensure compliance with controls and procedures.
• Line management of junior teammates to guide their personal development and ensure the objectives of the team are met in a smooth and timely manner.
• Identify potential areas which would benefit from enhancements or improvement in process and implement continuous improvements.
• Coordinating Team’s MI to facilitate better management of output/workload
• Responsibility for the data validation checks on portfolio data, coordinating other team members to ensure all quarterly review activities proceed smoothly

Portfolio Data team responsibilities

• Team technical lead for Private Asset theory and principles
• Assist with the implementation of our new managed data service and tech transformation as required.
• Guiding team through complex queries or data interpretation, providing expert oversight
• Help deliver on key client quarterly requests and building out of bespoke templates to support investor needs.
• Supervising the teams processes and data flow within Pantheons systems of record
• Proactively monitor team system requirements, playing key part in systems project work

Investment analysis and support

• Coordination of asset level data for usage by other investment and IR professionals across the firm
• Produce and review analysis prepared by junior team members of primary investment opportunities across Pantheon’s asset classes.
• Collaborate closely with Core Portfolio Management teams on existing investment monitoring and management

Knowledge and Experience Required

• Strong technical skills, with emphasis on Fund of Fund private equity (including equity, infrastructure and private debt)
• Demonstrable experience in private markets
• Proficiency with Microsoft office tools; Excel, PowerPoint etc.. and knowledge of other data analysis and visualisation tools like Power BI.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively to objectively analyse technical processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proven ability to develop strong and open working relationships
• Strong focus on control and procedures is essential
• Experience of ensuring timely and accurate delivery, working with tight deadlines
• Experienced professional working with data in a financial environment.
• Knowledge of data analysis and management techniques
• Self-starter with strong organisational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, and ability to guide and coach team members on tasks

Non-essential experience that would be advantageous;

• Related financial qualification (e.g. ACA/ACCA, CFA, IMC) or working towards qualifications
• Team management experience
• Experience of process changes
• Experience of working with offshore teams.
• Experience in data manipulation & other visualization tooling (VBA, Python etc.)

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.