Nearshore staffing for private equity and M&A teams.

Vela headhunts currently-employed finance and deal-support professionals in Latin America for US private equity firms and M&A advisors, 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.

Private equity firms, search funds, and M&A advisors looking for senior support on the deal team, the investor side, or the portfolio, inside US working hours.

Own

Owns one defined seat on the deal team, the investor side, or the portfolio side, inside your working day.

Translate

Turns partner, associate, and CFO overflow into work with an owner, a date, and a standard.

Protect

Protects deal names, investor data, and board materials with the discretion the firm already expects of its own staff.

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.

Private equity runs lean on purpose, so support work lands on the most expensive people in the firm: partners booking their own travel, associates running data rooms at midnight, the CFO reconciling the fund administrator by hand. Offshore staffing usually answers with a bench of generalists in a time zone that sleeps through the deal day. Vela runs one search for one defined seat, among professionals in Latin America who already do that work for banks, funds, advisory firms, and fund administrators, and who keep your hours.

How we reach them.

  • Every search starts with the finance and deal-support professionals who are in the seat right now, in Medellín, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, and Mexico City. The people who can do this work are trusted with live deals today, which is exactly why they are not reading job boards.
  • 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 seat-specific work exercise built from the role brief: a calendar under time-zone pressure, a memorandum summary, a data-room setup, or a written investor update.
  • A confidentiality screen: how the professional handles a project code name, a forwarded draft, and an outside party asking questions it should not.
  • 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.

  • Partners, associates, or your CFO are doing support work priced far below their own time.
  • You need overlap with US deal hours, not a handoff that waits overnight.
  • You want one seat filled well, not a staffing bench.
  • You want a shared pool of generalist virtual assistants.
  • You need someone to give investment, legal, or tax advice.
  • You expect a job post to reach the same professionals Vela headhunts.

Compare the seat before you choose the market.

Private equity executive assistant.

Partner calendars, travel, and the deal-team inbox.

M&A deal coordinator.

Data rooms, Q&A trackers, and the closing checklist.

Investor relations associate.

Reporting packs, questionnaires, and a clean investor CRM.

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 private equity hire 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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