Senior Fund Manager - Asset Management

About the Role
The Senior Fund Manager - Private Markets & Real Assets is a senior investment professional responsible for originating, underwriting, structuring, and monitoring investments in private markets, including real estate, infrastructure, private credit, private equity, and other alternative strategies. This role combines transaction execution with portfolio-management discipline, focusing on building a credible pipeline, conducting rigorous due diligence, preparing investment recommendations, and monitoring assets and fund managers after investment. The incumbent will concentrate on one or more private-market disciplines while maintaining a multi-asset perspective and supporting broader Asset Management initiatives. This position operates within approved mandates, governance, and delegated limits but does not hold department-head or standalone approval authority.

Key Responsibilities

1. Investment Origination & Pipeline Development

   • Identify, screen, and develop private-market opportunities through relationships with sponsors, developers, asset managers, advisers, and institutional counterparties.
   • Maintain a disciplined opportunity pipeline aligned with approved strategy, target returns, liquidity parameters, and risk appetite.

2. Underwriting, Valuation & Due Diligence

   • Lead or coordinate underwriting, including financial modeling, valuation, sensitivity analysis, commercial assessment, and return attribution.
   • Coordinate legal, financial, tax, technical, operational, and ESG due diligence, identifying key risks, mitigants, and investment conditions.

3. Fund, Transaction & Product Structuring

   • Support structuring of private-market funds, co-investments, separate accounts, and investment vehicles suited to client and market requirements.
   • Review financial terms, governance rights, fees, liquidity provisions, covenants, and transaction documentation alongside relevant control functions.

4. Investment Execution & Governance

   • Prepare decision-ready investment papers covering the opportunity, valuation, downside risks, structure, and recommendation.
   • Coordinate approved transactions through conditions precedent, documentation, funding, closing deliverables, and stakeholder communication.

5. Portfolio Monitoring & Asset-Management Oversight

   • Monitor portfolio companies, real assets, fund managers, and underlying projects against investment cases, valuations, liquidity, and milestones.
   • Review investor reports, capital calls, distributions, and material events; recommend action where performance or risk deviates.

6. Risk, Regulatory & Documentation Discipline

   • Operate in accordance with internal investment policies, regulatory requirements, and approved investment guidelines.
   • Maintain complete, audit-ready investment files, valuation support, and monitoring documentation.

7. Private Markets Investment Management & Governance

   • Manage assigned private market investment opportunities and portfolio investments throughout the investment lifecycle, including screening, evaluation, due diligence, execution, and ongoing monitoring, in accordance with delegated authority, investment policies, and approved mandates.
   • Monitor investment performance, valuation movements, covenant compliance, and governance matters, ensuring timely identification and assessment of emerging risks and opportunities.
   • Escalate material valuation changes, covenant breaches, governance concerns, investments outside approved mandates, and significant risk-related matters to the Head of Asset Management and relevant governance committees for review and decision-making.

8. Multi-Asset, Client & Stakeholder Support

   • Provide private-market and real-asset insight to wider multi-asset portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation, and manager-selection work.

9. Capability Development & Process Improvement

   • Mentor junior investment professionals and improve investment models and monitoring.

Requirements

• Omani Nationals only.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, Engineering, Real Estate, or a related discipline. An MBA, MSc, or other postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Experience: Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in asset management, private equity, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, investment banking, corporate finance, or alternative investments. Demonstrable experience in at least one private-market discipline, including deal sourcing, underwriting, structuring, execution, or portfolio monitoring, is required.
• Professional qualification: CFA, CAIA, FRM, ACA/CPA, or relevant investment, valuation, real-estate or project-finance qualifications are preferred.
• Language: Professional fluency in English is required. Arabic and demonstrated familiarity with Oman/GCC markets, counterparties, and regulatory practices are advantageous.