Associate Sr Associate Fund Compliance Operations

Fund Operations & Capital Deployment Role

About Cerberus Capital Management

Founded in 1992, Cerberus is a global leader in alternative investing with approximately $70 billion in assets across complementary credit, private equity, and real estate strategies. We invest across the capital structure where our integrated investment platforms and proprietary operating capabilities create an edge to improve performance and drive long-term value. Our tenured teams have experience working collaboratively across asset classes, sectors, and geographies to seek strong risk-adjusted returns for our investors. For more information about our people and platforms, visit us at www.cerberus.com.

Overview

We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Fund Operations & Capital Deployment Role to support the coordination, reconciliation, and reporting of investment funding activity across multiple investment strategies and funds.

This individual will work closely with Treasury, Operations, Finance, and Fund Compliance Operations to reconcile funding schedules against funding request memos and ensure upcoming fundings are accurately reflected and properly recorded.

This role offers a unique opportunity to develop expertise in fund operations, capital deployment, liquidity forecasting, fund allocations, and investment lifecycle management while working closely with cross-functional teams across multiple asset classes.

The ideal candidate enjoys working with data, building relationships across teams, managing multiple priorities, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, increase automation, and reduce operational risk in a fast-paced investment environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Funding Reconciliation
• Reconcile funding schedules against the corresponding funding request memos for active investments, confirming that amounts, timing, and fund allocations agree.
• Review funding request memos for completeness, accuracy, and consistency with the funding schedules and approved allocations.
• Perform detailed reconciliations between funding schedules and funding request memos to support accurate reporting and liquidity planning.
• Investigate and resolve funding-related discrepancies between funding schedules, funding request memos, and supporting accounting data.
• Liquidity & Deployment Management
• Support liquidity planning by tracking upcoming capital requirements and anticipated deployment activity.
• Track changes in funding schedules that may impact cash forecasts or deployment pacing.
• Assist in managing deployment targets across multiple funds to ensure capital is invested consistently with portfolio objectives.
• Produce regular reporting on projected capital requirements, deployment activity, and funding variances.
• Cross-Functional Partnership
• Serve as a primary point of coordination between Treasury, Fund Compliance, Finance, and Operations.
• Communicate reconciliation status, funding variances, and unresolved discrepancies to Treasury, Finance, and Operations.
• Escalate potential issues related to timing, liquidity, allocations, data integrity, or operational risk.
• Process Improvement & Reporting
• Assist in developing and enhancing funding workflows, controls, and reporting processes related to capital deployment and liquidity management.
• Support initiatives to automate reporting, reconciliation and operational processes.
• Maintain accurate documentation of funding assumptions, allocation decisions, and workflow procedures.
• Participate in special projects focused on capital planning, liquidity management, automation, and operational efficiency.
  

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 3–5 years of experience in investment operations, fund operations, treasury, accounting, financial analysis, or related fields.
• Experience supporting private equity, private credit, real estate, or alternative investment funds.
• Familiarity with capital deployment, fund allocations, liquidity forecasting, and cash management processes.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to work with large datasets.
• Experience with reporting and analytical tools such as Power BI, Anaplan, or similar platforms.
• Understanding of investment lifecycle events, including deal closings, follow-on investments, reserves, and funding tranches.
• Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
• Effective communicator who can build relationships and collaborate across business partners.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to continuously learn and expand technical and operational expertise.
• Proactive mindset with a willingness to challenge existing processes, identify opportunities for automation, and recommend enhancements that improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.
• Self-motivated with a willingness to assume additional responsibilities and contribute to special projects.
• Team-oriented individual who collaborates effectively and contributes positively to a dynamic work environment.
• Experience with programming or automation tools such as Python, SQL, Power BI, or similar technologies is a plus.