Fund Controller/ Accountant

Private Equity firm focused on investing in technology

Generous benefits package that includes medical insurance and dental insurance (100% of employee premiums paid by company, 50% for dependents), long-term disability insurance, monthly cell phone subsidy, etc

The primary responsibilities of this function will be:

• Overseeing, monitoring and confirming all fund accounting by the FA for each series of

funds, including maintaining a set of “shadow” accounting records to serve as a check and
balance against FA accounting records

• Maintaining a capital call and distribution record and researching the reasons for any

discrepancies with FA records to make appropriate reconciliations

• Reviewing all investor capital account balances as maintained by the FAs
• Manage and monitor all fund entity bank accounts, including handling all accounts receivable

and accounts payable (including payment of invoices) functions for such accounts

• Assisting the Managing Partner & COO (the “COO”) with executing all capital calls from,

and distributions of investment proceeds to, fund investors

• Work with each FA to ensure accurate annual Form 1099 reporting for fund entity payees,

issue 1099s annually as required

• Maintaining secure records of investor contact and other information
• Working with the FAs to process all investor audit confirmation and similar account

information requests

• Monitoring and conducting regular reconciliation of fund bank account balances
• Working with the VP-Finance and the funds’ auditor on the annual audit of all managed

funds

• Working with outside tax counsel on all required federal and state tax filings for the funds

and related fund entities

• Calculating quarterly management fees payable by fund Limited Partners
• Working with investment team members and Fund FAs to complete quarterly portfolio

company reporting templates

Qualifications:
The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications:

• Bachelors’ degree in accounting from an accredited university
• Licensed as a certificated public accountant (CPA)
• 6 plus years work experience
• At least 3 years of experience working for a fund administrator, preferably handling

accounting for private equity funds.

• Strong Excel skills (including the ability to work with pivot tables, the extraction of data

from an external database, and build nested formulas)

• Experience with partnership accounting, operations, and controls as well as financial

management and regulatory reporting is a plus

• Familiarity with European (whole fund) and American (deal-by-deal) earnings waterfall

structures is highly desirable.

• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Demonstrated track record of being meticulous, organized