Hire a private equity fund operations associate in Latin America.

Vela headhunts currently-employed fund operations associates in Latin America for US private equity firms, recruited the way we hire for our own team. Every search starts with people who already have the job, not the ones between them.

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Diana C.
Diana C.
Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native
Lima, Peru
Marcela P.
Marcela P.
Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce
Bogotá, Colombia
Camila V.
Camila V.
QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot
Medellín, Colombia
Nicolas R.
Nicolas R.
SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce
Medellín, Colombia
Ingrid M.
Ingrid M.
Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops
Bogotá, Colombia
Jose A.
Jose A.
Operations · KPI delivery · escalations
Bogotá, Colombia
Laura B.
Laura B.
Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio
Medellín, Colombia
Diana C.
Diana C.
Strategy · LATAM growth · ChatGPT-native
Lima, Peru
Marcela P.
Marcela P.
Enterprise retention · CRM · Salesforce
Bogotá, Colombia
Camila V.
Camila V.
QBRs · Power BI · HubSpot
Medellín, Colombia
Nicolas R.
Nicolas R.
SaaS lifecycle · renewals · Salesforce
Medellín, Colombia
Ingrid M.
Ingrid M.
Trilingual · UK/EU/CA · multilingual ops
Bogotá, Colombia
Jose A.
Jose A.
Operations · KPI delivery · escalations
Bogotá, Colombia
Laura B.
Laura B.
Editorial · campaigns · Looker Studio
Medellín, Colombia

What this hire actually owns.

Fund CFOs and controllers looking for an associate who works alongside the fund administrator: checking its work, preparing what it needs, and answering what it cannot.

Own

Owns the review of the administrator's capital-call, distribution, and fee calculations before anything reaches limited partners.

Translate

Turns administrator deliverables, bank activity, and the firm's own records into reconciliations with every break explained.

Protect

Protects audit season by keeping valuation support, invoices, and schedules organised before the requests arrive.

Deposit$1,000refundable · credits to the fee
Shortlist21dthree vetted professionals · first profile day 7
Fee20%of first-year base
Replacement90dno re-fee

Why this seat is hard to fill.

Most mid-sized funds outsource fund accounting to an administrator and still find the CFO doing the in-between work: reviewing capital-call and distribution calculations, reconciling the administrator's figures to the firm's own records, gathering valuation support, and fielding the audit requests the administrator sends back. That seat sits between the administrator and the firm, and it does not replace either. The people who can fill it usually worked at an administrator or in a fund's finance team, and both employers are reluctant to lose them.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the fund operations associates who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. Fund administrators and fund finance teams spend years training these people, and both work hard to keep them.
  • We reach them by warm intro, prior-network referral, and a researched personal email. Never a job post, never a recruiter blast.
  • Eight active searches a month, so the outreach stays personal enough that someone with a job reads it.

How we check them.

  • A reconciliation exercise: an administrator's capital account statement checked against a sample ledger and bank activity, with the breaks found and written up.
  • A review exercise: a capital-call notice with a planted allocation error, caught and explained the way a CFO would want to hear it.
  • The same scorecard and reference checks we run on our own hires, with references from the people who actually managed them. We put forward only people we would hire ourselves.

Want the hire trained to run AI in the seat? We offer that as a separate, optional bootcamp — priced on its own, never bundled into the placement fee.

We say no more often than we say yes.

  • Your CFO or controller reviews the administrator's work line by line, alone.
  • Quarter-end and audit requests pile up because nobody owns the in-between work.
  • You want a second layer of review on your administrator, not a replacement for it.
  • You want to bring fund accounting in-house and drop your administrator.
  • You need someone to sign off on the fund's financial statements.
  • You need tax or audit opinions.

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What they said after we placed them.

Curated from companies who hired through Vela and professionals we placed. Their words, not ours.

“HireTalent gave us exactly what we needed. They found someone with all the qualifications we were looking for, and Andres has been a really strong addition to our team.”

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Elijah P.
Real Estate Company

Your next fund operations associate already has a job.

First profile target: day 7. Three vetted professionals in 21 days. 90-day replacement, no re-fee.

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