Investments Team Middle Office 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 facility administration, cash-flow operations, reconciliations, and reporting across assigned investment portfolios. You will coordinate with internal functions and external counterparties, maintain accurate records and controls, resolve discrepancies, support lifecycle events, and improve processes and data quality.
Requirements
- Typically 2–3 years of relevant experience in middle office, loan operations, fund administration, structured finance operations, agency or trustee services, loan servicing, audit, or transaction services.
- Practical understanding of lending-facility cash flows, interest and fee calculations, settlement, lifecycle events, and cash and position reconciliations.
- Strong Excel skills, including lookups, pivot tables, and handling large datasets.
- Ability to interpret facility documentation and translate operational requirements into calendars, checklists, and controls.
- Excellent attention to detail and a structured approach to accuracy checking and discrepancy investigation.
- Strong organisational and communication skills.
- Ability to manage competing deadlines.
- Experience in a fund or bank is advantageous.
- Exposure to asset-based finance is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Coordinate operational readiness for new facilities and amendments, including funds-flow schedules, reporting requirements, and handovers.
- Administer utilisation requests, drawdowns, rollovers, reinvestments, repayments, and prepayments.
- Check interest, fees, contractual waterfall allocations, documentation, approvals, and operational conditions before processing.
- Maintain facility records and calendars for payment dates, maturities, reporting obligations, and contractual deadlines.
- Support the onboarding of new debtors under existing agreements.
- Reconcile facility and platform balances, cash movements, interest, and fee accruals against internal and third-party records.
- Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences.
- Monitor expected cash flows and support fund-level cash forecasting and reconciliation.
- Provide verified data and schedules for NAV, valuations, investor reporting, audits, and regulatory reporting.
- Support lifecycle processing for bonds, asset-backed securities, term loans, and associated FX or cross-currency hedges.
- Maintain procedures, checklists, and audit trails.
- Automate recurring checks, improve data quality, and develop monitoring dashboards with Technology and Data teams.
- Coordinate with borrowers, originators, servicers, administrators, and agents to keep deliverables on track.
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