Vice President, Performance & Analytics

Location – London

About Federated Hermes:

Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $839.8 billion in assets under management, as of March 31st, 2025. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide. Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide.

Main Function of the role:

We are looking to recruit a Performance & Analytics Vice President into a high performing team whose mandate is to service the demands of internal and external stakeholders across private equity and the parent company. They will be confident to liaise with people at all levels across the business with direct access to senior management and will be excited by the opportunity of take ownership and responsibility. This is a hands-on role and a rare opportunity to drive improvements whilst having two direct reports, with access to a wider team to assist and to lead in a high growth and fast paced environment. The role is highly analytical, requires a keen eye for detail, experience of drafting presentations and reports for external dissemination and requires an enthusiasm for operationally developing the function.

Key task and responsibilities:

• Engaging in commercial workflows with senior leadership team from fundraising to client focused outputs
• Oversight and control over day-to-day handling of performance calculations by junior team members
• Manage and sign off the direct reports output related to client reporting, which includes the quantitative aspects of the quarterly investor reporting process across Private Equity, covering multiple strategies/geographies
• Oversight of the tracking and answering of investor queries on performance and reporting by junior team members, liaising with appropriate stakeholders as required
• Oversight of administrator’s provision of data for inclusion in investor reports as applicable
• Liaison with investment team
• Support and input into the Private Equity valuation process
• Drive technology led projects to reduce manual processes where possible
• Understand and explain industry performance metrics and benchmarks
• Achieve a detailed understanding of the fund’s partnership agreements, operations, portfolio investments and fund performance models to deliver accountabilities.
• Mentorship and management of direct reports

Minimum knowledge & experience required:

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) min: 2:1 obtained
• Qualified chartered financial analyst / chartered accountant / equivalent financial qualification with a minimum of 5 years PQE
• Management experience with a track record of successfully supporting direct reports
• Significant experience working with fund accounting, audit, analysis, or administration background within Private Equity
• Highly analytical with prowess for working with high volumes of numerical data and transforming this into information helpful for decision making
• Report writing skills - including fluent command of business level English
• Advanced IT literacy with advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Ability to be flexible to meet tight deadlines

Candidate Profile:

• Ability to build relationships across a business to ensure all stakeholders expectations are managed and met
• Required to ensure a large number and variety of tasks and responsibilities are completed within tight timescales
• Forward thinking, and good at planning and effective at prioritising
• Able to communicate at all levels, including board level
• Hands-on approach and a willing and flexible attitude.

Additional Competencies:

• Calm and effective under pressure
• Organised and methodical
• Team player with high energy levels, with a clear willingness to learn and engage
• Conscientious, hard working with excellent attention to detail
• Flexible attitude to work profile; capable of handling significant volume of non-routine/unpredictable work demands
• Able to prioritise to meet tight deadlines through excellent time management
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Modelling - advanced user of MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Bloomberg, Investran, eFront and Salesforce experience is desirable

Diversity, Inclusion and Flexible Working:

We believe in genuine opportunity, fairness, and respect for all applicants and aim to ensure that no current or prospective employee is subject to discrimination or treated less favourably on the basis of their disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or disability. We understand that applicants may have different needs and expectations related to their working arrangements and are committed to a discussion on flexible working. Please raise these with your Recruitment contact to discuss what type of arrangements can work for you and the role for which you are applying.

We welcome applications from all eligible candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates who identify as women and/or are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services sector. We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the “Offer of Interview” scheme, intended to actively encourage applications from people with a disability or long-term condition and offer an interview to those who meet the minimum criteria set out within this job description. You will need to let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition. If you would benefit from alternative methods of applying or for workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please also let us know by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888 to discuss the support you need.