Vice President, Investment Operations - Private Debt
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Key details
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Lead / Staff+
- Experience
- 8–11 yrs
- Function
- Finance & Accounting
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 2w ago
Skills
About the role
We are global private markets specialists delivering tailored investment solutions, advisory services, and impactful, data driven insights to the world’s investors. Leveraging the power of our platform and our peerless intelligence across sectors, strategies, and geographies, we help identify the advantages and the answers our clients need to succeed.
Position Overview
The VP will play a key role within the Investment Operations team, helping to transform and scale the Private Debt operating model. The role will develop a deep understanding of the platform's processes, stakeholders, systems and controls, while combining hands-on operational involvement and deputy review responsibilities with the leadership of cross-functional initiatives focused on automation, standardization and long-term operational efficiency.
Essential Job Functions:
- Develop a strong understanding of the Private Debt platform operating model, including key processes, stakeholders, systems, and controls and act as a deputy reviewer.
- Identify and implement opportunities for process automation, workflow optimization, and operational efficiency improvements.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance operational procedures, control frameworks, documentation standards, and governance processes.
- Drive process standardization, harmonization, and best practice adoption.
- Lead the coordination and delivery of multiple concurrent initiatives and workstreams.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to implement operational enhancements and support strategic business initiatives.
Education and/or Work Experience Requirements:
- 8+ years of relevant experience within Investment Operations, Fund Operations, Middle Office, or Private Markets Operations, with significant exposure to Private Debt, Private Credit, or alternative investments.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
- Strong understanding of private debt, loan allocation methodologies, fund cash management, liquidity management, capital calls and distributions
- Demonstrated experience overseeing complex transaction lifecycles, including investment closings, funding coordination, onboarding of investment managers, and operational execution across multiple legal entities and jurisdictions.
- Proven track record leading operational change initiatives, including process redesign, automation, workflow optimization, governance enhancements, and operating model improvements.
- Experience developing and implementing operational controls, procedures, policies, KPI frameworks, and management reporting to support scalable growth and risk management.
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At StepStone, we believe that our people are our most important asset and crucial to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that strives to create an environment that empowers our employees and allows them to be heard, regardless of title or tenure. Our organizational community features multiple Employment Resource Groups as well as mentorship programs to enhance the employee experience for all.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, StepStone does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law.
Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.
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