Fund Accountant
The Role We are seeking a highly qualified Accountant to join our Fund Accounting team. This team is responsible for the accounting and reporting as it relates to the Funds. They interact with various groups within the firm on a regular basis as well as with external parties such as investors, managers, fund admin, and other service providers. The candidate should bring a strong sense of personal responsibility and ownership of assigned projects and tasks.
The Fund Accountant will work on all aspects of the month end close process including estimated reporting and issuing monthly final statements to our investors. This person will review and reconcile monthly workbooks between the firm and the administrator, review the calculation of portfolio manager performance fees as well as investor subscription docs and redemption requests, reconcile pnl breaks between our internal system and the administrator, review portfolio manager budgets and monthly funding requests. and create and maintain various workpapers (e, g, accrual tracker, portfolio manager terms, new issue pnl calculation of investor capital and fees, etc.). He/She will assist with the annual fund financial statement audit process and related tax statement preparation and help with internal regulatory and compliance reporting and ad hoc interdepartmental requests. This individual will work on ad-hoc and longer term team projects. This person will utilize our internal accounting software, Geneva, to book and upload monthly accounting entries. They will also assist with monitoring and maintaining appropriate financial controls, policies and procedures to support existing operations and continued growth.
What you need:
- A bachelor's degree in Accounting
- Strong working knowledge using Excel (e.g. pivot tables, v and h lookups, index match, etc.)
- 2-5 years of relevant work experience in alternative investments asset managers.
- Process and detail oriented with a strong work ethic and team focused attitude
- Able to adapt to frequent changes in the business operating environment
- Highly organized and self-motivated
- Able to work well independently and coordinate with various individuals internally and externally.
- CPA Preferred