Head - Real Estate Private Loan Operations

Role: Head - Real Estate Private Loan Operations

Location: Bengaluru

Work Mode: Hybrid

Experience: 13-19 Years

Overview:

Lead. Build. Scale. Shape the Future of Real Estate Private Credit Operations.

We are looking for an accomplished Real Estate Private Loan Operations leader to join a high-growth portfolio company of one of the world's leading investment groups.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for a professional with deep expertise in real estate private credit, syndicated loans and structured loans, combined with the leadership maturity to build scalable, controlled and high-performing operations for a global platform.

You will work closely with U.S. leadership and take ownership of India-based execution across Large Balance Commercial Loans and Small Balance Commercial Loan Pools. Lead a multi-functional team of approximately 20-25 professionals, including managers and senior individual contributors, and translate global business priorities into high-quality operational execution.

Key Responsibilities/ Ownership:

• Real estate private loan onboarding and setup
• Syndicated loan and structured loan operations
• Loan servicing and administration workflows
• Reconciliations across systems, servicers and counterparties
• Portfolio and deal-level analytics
• Small Balance Commercial loan pool operations
• Data validation, remittance reconciliation and exception management
• Month-end reporting and portfolio analytics
• Operational controls, documentation and audit readiness
• Capacity planning, performance management and team development
• Process transformation, scalability and continuous improvement
• Stakeholder management across U.S. leadership, portfolio management, servicers, banks and other external counterparties

Key Requirements:

• 13-19 years of experience in real estate private credit, loan operations, investment operations, asset management, finance or closely related financial services environments.
• Mandatory experience in syndicated loans and structured loans.
• Strong leadership experience managing 15–25+ professionals, including managers and senior individual contributors.
• Proven expertise in real estate private loan operations, including loan onboarding, servicing, reconciliations and operational reporting.
• Strong understanding of loan structures, operational workflows and the complexities involved in managing private and structured credit portfolios.
• Experience managing relationships with loan servicers, banks, custodians, brokers and other external counterparties.
• Strong understanding of operational controls, governance, documentation and process scalability.
• Experience partnering with U.S. or global stakeholders across time zones.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management and problem-solving capabilities.
• A hands-on leadership mindset with the ability to balance control, accuracy, speed and scalability.
• Exposure to financing facilities, secured funding arrangements, pooled commercial loan strategies, portfolio management reporting, valuation, liquidity or treasury operations will be an added advantage.

Why this role

This is an opportunity to move beyond managing a traditional operations function.

You will have the opportunity to shape and scale the operating model for a global real estate private credit platform, lead a critical India-based organization, work directly with U.S. leadership and influence how complex private loan portfolios are managed, controlled and scaled.

For the right leader, this is an opportunity to bring together real estate private credit expertise, syndicated and structured loan experience, operational leadership and transformation in one highly visible mandate.

In private credit, complex transactions demand more than technical expertise. They demand leaders who can turn complexity into control, scale and execution.

If you have led syndicated and structured loan operations, built high-performing teams and know what it takes to make a global private credit platform scale with confidence, this could be the leadership opportunity you have been waiting for.