Über diese Senior Associate, Portfolio Finance Stelle bei Adams Street Partners
Adams Street Partners (“Adams Street”) is a global private markets investment manager that has nearly $70 billion* in assets under management. The firm is 100% employee-owned, which fosters a positive and unique culture of collaboration, intellectual rigor, integrity, and a commitment to professional development. For the eighth year in a row, Adams Street was named one of Pension & Investments’ Best Places to Work in Money Management in 2025.
Employees operate as a single global team, integrating the expertise of the firm’s investment professionals across five strategies: primary investments, secondary investments, growth equity, private credit, and co-investments. Adams Street is considered a private markets pioneer and was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame in 2000.
The firm was founded more than 50 years ago, and clients include leading public and corporate pension plans, foundations, endowments, insurance companies, registered investment advisors, and high net worth individuals worldwide.
Adams Street has offices in Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Munich, Menlo Park, New York, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Toronto.
*Firmwide AUM as of December 31, 2025 was $69.9bn; does not include the more recent private credit closings or private credit leverage which may be discussed herein or is available upon request. AUM since that date is in excess of $70bn as a result of more recent fund closings.
About the Team
The Portfolio Finance team focuses on deal funding, liquidity, and financing across Adams Street’s Private Equity and Private Credit investment strategies. The team manages day to day cash optimization, credit facilities, NAV facilities, and long-term forecasting with a focus on risk management and the performance of our funds.
The role of Senior Associate will be a key role within the team. The Senior Associate will be expected to collaborate with various teams across the firm and drive policy, control, and efficiency within the team. This role is focused on supporting the Private Credit function of Adams Street which operates out of New York.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Private Credit investment teams, Investment Strategy & Risk Management (ISRM), Operations, Accounting, and Tax teams to optimize liquidity and usage of financing for Adams Street’s portfolios (evergreen, closed ended and custom mandates)
- Build and maintain forward looking models to project cash flows from new deal pipeline, capital inflows/outflows, asset lifecycle events and financing transactions to help plan deployment strategy
- Monitor portfolios and take actions to manage cash levels, financing facilities, target leverage and key performance metrics
- Work across various internal teams to coordinate the sourcing, maintenance, and accuracy of projections used in making economic decisions
- Build and monitor portfolio risk metrics to measure against pre-established risk guidelines (e.g. leverage, cash levels) in growing and dynamic portfolios
- Complete FX Hedging processes across our investment portfolio
Candidate Requirements:
We seek an individual who is self-disciplined, demonstrates creative thinking and has the following characteristics:
- At least 5-7 years of investment management experience
- Minimum 4 years of experience working in a private credit role in portfolio finance, treasury, or similar
- Familiarity with BDCs and CLOs
- Experience with private markets credit facilities and/or structured finance preferred
- Advanced degrees with a background in quantitative finance/modeling preferred
- Strong quantitative, analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a financial engineering mindset
- Familiarity with treasury and financing function, products and providers
- Experience communicating and collaborating across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Maintains accuracy and quality when working within tight deadlines
- Experienced user of programming languages (e.g. R), database design, and developer of analytical tools are desirable
- Ability to prioritize and independently execute assigned projects while directing and managing support staff
We offer a competitive U.S. benefits package designed to support health, financial security, and work-life balance. Highlights include medical, dental, and vision coverage; a 401(k) with immediate vesting and employer match; profit sharing; flexible spending accounts (FSA); and paid parental leave, including adoption. Employees also receive generous paid time off, commuter benefits, employer-paid short- and long-term disability and life insurance, and access to additional voluntary benefits.
