Vice President - Fund Accounting - Hedge Fund - CA

- Build and supervise a new small team focused on Fund Accounting, initially supporting the firms - Private Equity and Special Opportunities / Special Situations businesses.

- Provide overall direction to accounting staff to assure synchronized teamwork that accomplishes monthly, quarterly and annual financial and operational goals & objectives.

- 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.), offshoring resources, external fund administrators, and external auditors to meet all monthly, quarterly and annual reporting deadlines.

- Manage monthly and quarterly close processes, including review work of accounting staff, along with producing original workpapers and analyses.

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

- Review calculation of management fees and complex waterfall calculations.

- Review cash flow projections and 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 Fund's 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.

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

- Review and approval of expense activity and authorization of bank wires.