Senior Associate - Private Fund Accounting - BFS

- Be a founding member of a new small team focused on Fund Accounting, initially supporting Areas Private Equity and Special Opportunities / Special Situations businesses.

- Ensure process and procedures are adequate to meet quality standards and are consistently applied and regularly reviewed.

- Work with and liaise with internal resources (primarily colleagues in the U.S.), external fund administrators, and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.

- Perform monthly and quarterly close processes, including review work of external administrators, along with producing original workpapers and analyses.

- Review and/or reperform quarterly and annual GAAP financial statements and footnote disclosures for multiple funds as well as capital account summaries for limited partners.

- Review and/or reperform calculation of management fees and complex waterfall calculations.

- Produce cash flow projections and analyze daily cash management, including activity on credit lines, expected settlement timing of purchases and sales, and timing of capital calls and capital distributions.

- Monitor compliance with the Funds Limited Partnership Agreements and credit facilities, including the preparation or review of compliance reporting.

- 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

General Requirements:

- Big-4 public accounting experience strongly preferred

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, high growth environment; excited about working in a start-up environment with the backing and infrastructure of a well-established industry leader

- Excited about team building

- Strong communication skills will be important; ability to analyze and summarize complex information both verbally and in writing with colleagues in the United States

- Ability to assist in managing several third-party relationships (outside administrators; custodians)

- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; ability to multi-task and manage various deadlines

- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills; attention to detail and timelines required

- Knowledge of private equity structures, fixed income securities, debt instruments, alternative investments, securitization, or other investment products preferred

- Experience with certain systems (Advent Geneva; Investran; Black Mountain) experience a plus; requires day to day use of Excel (with advanced skills in Excel being a plus)