Investment Operations Associate
Fasanara Capital is an alternative asset manager offering institutional investors fintech lending and digital asset investment strategies.
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About Fasanara Capital
Fasanara Capital is a London-based alternative asset manager focused on fintech lending and digital asset investing for institutional clients. It offers strategies spanning trade receivables, consumer loans, real estate credit, market-neutral crypto trading, and bespoke multi-asset portfolios. The firm operates a proprietary credit platform integrating a global network of fintech loan originators with machine learning analytics.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will manage the end-to-end operational lifecycle of performing credit working-capital facilities, from onboarding and transaction readiness through funding, settlement, collections, monitoring, and reporting. You will validate transactions, reconcile cash movements, monitor risk exceptions, and maintain audit-ready records. You will own the business operation of the working-capital portal, improve workflows and controls with Technology, coordinate testing and training, and support broader credit operations, counterparties, payments, settlements, onboarding, valuations, and process-improvement projects.
Requirements
- Experience in working capital, structured or receivables finance, factoring, supply-chain/payables finance, or asset-backed lending
- Experience reviewing loan or receivables tapes and working with originators or servicers
- Exposure to investment operations, trade support, middle office, fund operations, or transaction banking
- Strong numerical and analytical skills
- Understanding of transaction economics, basic accounting, and financial statements
- Advanced Excel skills; VBA preferred
- Interest in technology, automation, and AI
- SQL or Python experience is valuable
- Strong communication skills
- Knowledge of alternative credit, fintech lending, and asset-backed transactions
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end operational lifecycle of performing credit working-capital facilities
- Coordinate counterparty onboarding and transaction readiness
- Review transaction submissions against approved terms and eligibility criteria
- Verify purchase prices, advances, discounts, interest, fees, settlements, and set-offs
- Prepare funding instructions under the maker-checker framework
- Maintain facility and transaction records, monitor utilisation and collections, and reconcile cash movements
- Manage short-term cash forecasts and escalate material exceptions
- Produce operational reporting and audit-ready records
- Own the business operation of the working-capital portal
- Improve portal workflows, controls, and integrations with Technology
- Coordinate user acceptance testing, operating procedures, and training
- Support payments, settlements, post-trade reconciliations, and broader credit transaction operations
- Support onboarding of lenders, service providers, investment structures, and products
- Contribute to cross-functional operational projects and process improvements
Benefits
- Performance-related bonus scheme
- Private medical and dental insurance through Bupa, including children's cover
- Life insurance, income protection, and critical illness cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Salary-sacrifice pension with Hargreaves Lansdown, matched up to 10%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- Emergency parental leave, emergency childcare, and nursery benefit
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Charity giving through CAF
- Annual wellbeing budget
- Team socials and annual summer and Christmas parties