# Vice President – Fund Finance – New York

**Company**: Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a part of BlackRock
**Location**: New York
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: USD$155,000.00 - USD$210,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced professional to join the Fund Finance team supporting GIP's Infrastructure Debt platform globally.

The successful candidate will play a central role in the operational and strategic management of the Global Infrastructure Debt ("GID") platform, GIP's flagship non-investment grade commingled fund platform.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Fund Oversight & Investment Execution**

- Act as a senior Fund Finance lead supporting the GID platform and associated feeder, financing and leverage vehicles.

- Partner with Investment Teams throughout the investment lifecycle to ensure efficient onboarding, execution and ongoing management of investments across participating funds and mandates.

- Lead allocation review processes and confirm adherence to allocation policies, investment guidelines and portfolio construction objectives.

- Oversee transaction execution and settlement activities, resolving operational issues relating to compliance, settlement, funding, hedging and reporting.

- Coordinate with borrowers, sponsors, lenders, legal counsel and external service providers to support execution and ongoing management of investments.

- Maintain strong operational controls and ensure accurate investment setup and lifecycle management within Aladdin.

- Review valuation outputs and challenge significant movements, assumptions or anomalies.

- Partner with investment teams, valuation providers and pricing specialists to ensure robust valuation governance.

**Liquidity Management & Financing Structures**

- Lead liquidity management across the GID fund complex, including cash forecasting, unfunded commitments, deployment planning and dry-powder management.

- Determine optimal funding strategies through a combination of investor capital calls, subscription facilities, asset-backed lending facilities and fund-level leverage arrangements.

- Coordinate capital calls, fund borrowings, distributions and debt service obligations across fund structures.

- Oversee ongoing management of financing facilities, including borrowing base calculations, covenant monitoring, utilization management and lender reporting requirements.

- Partner with Treasury, Asset Management, NAV Oversight and Fund Accounting teams to optimize liquidity and minimize cash drag.

**Structured Products & Complex Fund Vehicles**

- Support operational oversight of rated note structures, securitization vehicles and other structured financing solutions utilized across the platform.

- Monitor structural tests, waterfalls, reserve requirements and reporting obligations associated with leveraged vehicles.

- Support the launch and implementation of new products, including leveraged funds, CFOs, ABL structures and bespoke client solutions.

**Reporting, Client Support & Regulatory Oversight**

- Oversee production and review of investor reporting, management reporting, financial reporting and board materials.

- Support responses to investor due diligence requests, operational reviews and ad hoc client enquiries.

- Coordinate investor-specific reporting obligations, side letter requirements and bespoke reporting solutions.

- Ensure compliance with regulatory reporting requirements across all applicable structures.

- Provide management information and strategic insights to senior stakeholders.

- Review operational implementation of client commitments and reporting obligations across the platform.

**Platform Development & Leadership**

- Drive operational scalability across a rapidly growing infrastructure debt platform.

- Lead initiatives focused on process optimization, automation, data governance and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

- Enhance reporting and data capabilities through Power BI and other technology solutions.

- Develop and document controls, procedures and best practices across the Core PM function.

- Support operational implementation of new products and strategic growth initiatives.

- Mentor and develop junior members of the Fund Finance team.

- Act as a key stakeholder across cross-functional initiatives supporting the broader BlackRock and GIP operating model.

**Candidate Profile**

**Required Experience**

- Relevant experience within private credit, infrastructure debt, structured finance, fund finance, asset management, fund operations, or a related field, with a demonstrated track record of increasing responsibility and expertise.

- Strong understanding of closed-ended private fund structures and institutional investor requirements.

- Demonstrated experience managing complex fund operations, liquidity processes and capital activity.

- Experience coordinating capital calls, distributions, financing activities and investor reporting.

- Strong understanding of fund accounting, fund administration and valuation processes.

**Highly Desirable Experience**

- Private credit or infrastructure debt strategies.

- Leveraged private fund structures.

- Asset-backed lending facilities.

- Subscription line facilities.

- Rated note structures.

- Collateralized Fund Obligations (CFOs).

- Securitization vehicles.

- Structured finance transactions.

- Institutional SMAs and Fund-of-One structures.

- Fund launches and product development initiatives.

**Qualifications & Skills**

- ACA, ACCA, CFA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business or related discipline.

- Strong analytical, financial modelling and problem-solving skills.

- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

- Experience with Aladdin, Power BI, SQL, Python or similar data platforms is advantageous.

## Skills

### Required
- private credit
- infrastructure debt
- structured finance
- fund finance
- asset management
- fund operations
- Aladdin
- Power BI
- SQL
- Python

### Nice to have
- leveraged private fund structures
- asset-backed lending facilities
- subscription line facilities
- rated note structures
- collateralized Fund Obligations (CFOs)
- securitization vehicles
- structured finance transactions
- institutional SMAs and Fund-of-One structures
- fund launches and product development initiatives

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