Fund Accountant

Job Description

Skills: Bachelors degree, or equivalent, in Accounting, Finance, or related business field A minimum of 4 to 7 years of investment accounting experience Prior experience in private equity/real estate or private equity/real estate fund of funds investment accounting is preferred but not required. Knowledge of hedge fund accounting and/or derivatives, or experience with Investran, is a plus. Primary responsibilities: Actively monitoring critical investment and investor activity for multiple portfolios and custodian banks, ensuring proper settlement of transactions; developing significant level of expertise of the holdings, terms and transactions of multiple portfolios to provide intuitive and proactive oversight of these portfolios Overseeing third party service providers in posting activity to the portfolios; general ledger and maintaining portfolio activity in AISs parallel portfolio accounting system. Reconciling transactions, valuations, management fees, carried interest calculations, P&L components, and other activity between Investran and the third party service provider's records on a monthly/quarterly basis to ensure accuracy Verifying accuracy of investor capital account balances, NAV allocations, and capital activity on a monthly/quarterly basis Validation of investor level capital call and distribution allocation calculations Understanding and interpreting underlying fund investment financial statements for the purpose of preparing and/or calculating their respective fair valuation amounts, which includes documentation based on various sources of investment information and detailed reviews of financial statements and quarterly reports for regular internal fair valuation committee meeting approval Generating cash projections, fund capacity calculations and investor capital calls/distribution calculations for the these portfolios Providing support for product, regulatory, and other audits; assisting with review of offering documents for new products and supporting other areas of product development, as needed Working effectively with third party service providers and internal parties to ensure a high level of service for the products; raising service issues in an appropriate manner and following up on issues to resolution; creating or enhancing processes to improve efficiency Quarterly compliance reporting and highlighting instances with potential noncompliance with the products governing documents Signing-off on net asset value and performance based information on a monthly/quarterly basis; providing regular daily support and responding to numerous ad-hoc requests from investment management, investors and other internal and external stakeholders Performing other related functions or responsibilities as needed or assigned Involvement in projects related to the job function and liaising with IT on automation projects