Fund Accountant - Private Equity/Real Estate Sector - Big4 - CA

Fund Accountant - Private Equity/Real-Estate

Looking for CA's from BIG 4 only !!

- Be a founding member of a new small team focused on Real Estate Fund Accounting, initially supporting the investment property financial performance and analysis

- Ensure process and procedures created for property level financials are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.

- Initially, work with and liaise with internal resources (primarily colleagues in the U.S.) and external property JV partners. Long term will also work with fund administrators and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.

- Perform monthly and quarterly close processes, including compilation and standardization of property level financial statements, cash forecast, deal flows, along with producing original work papers and analysis.

- Long term will also review and/or re-perform quarterly and annual GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds as well as capital account summaries for limited partners.

- Review deal models to make sure forecasted/budgeted distributions are in line with actual distributions. Work with JV partners to make such cash flow distributions to respective funds.

- Maintain deal flows and calculation of preferred return to run waterfall calculations at the JV level.

- Understand waterfall and promote concepts

- Analyze daily cash management, including activity around expected settlement timing of purchases and sales, and timing of capital calls and capital distributions.

- Prepare and assist with ad-hoc limited partner reporting, analyst and front-office requests, working in conjunction with colleagues in Los Angeles to ensure timely response to our investors

- Assist with preparation of information provided to tax team for quarterly tax estimates and annual returns.

- Review and approval of expense activity, including T&E.