Summary
A leading credit-focused investment platform has an immediate opening for a Controller / Assistant Controller to serve as the hands-on accounting and reporting engine for a newly launched, multi-strategy fund. This is a rare opportunity to build critical infrastructure from the ground up in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
Company Information:
A leading multi-strategy investment platform with tens of billions in assets under management, offering credit and alternative investment strategies to institutional and private clients.
Job Description:
- Own and oversee the monthly and quarterly close across the fund and its underlying vehicles, maintaining accurate books and records
- Prepare and review quarterly financial statements, capital account statements, and investor-level reporting
- Oversee NAV calculations across the fund and its strategy sleeves, including interim soft closes
- Manage capital call and distribution activity in accordance with governing documents
- Administer subscription and redemption activity as the fund evolves in structure over time
- Maintain investor capital accounts and prepare investor-level capital and performance statements
- Support administration and reporting of credit and leverage facilities, including compliance and covenant reporting
- Monitor liquidity, cash, and financing across the fund’s vehicles, supporting funding and leverage management
- Calculate and review management and incentive fees, expense allocations, and accruals
- Calculate and review fund waterfalls and incentive/carried interest allocations
- Produce performance reporting (e.g., IRR, MOIC, and NAV-based returns) plus ad hoc analysis for senior management
Requirements / Qualifications:
- 8+ years of accounting and financial reporting experience, with meaningful fund and partnership accounting exposure across credit strategies
- Public accounting and/or fund administration background, followed by in-house experience at a credit manager, alternatives platform, or similar
- Hands-on command of the full accounting cycle — close, fund and partnership accounting, capital calls and distributions, NAV, waterfalls and incentive allocations, and performance reporting
- Experience with evolving or flexible fund structures, and the associated subscription, redemption, and capital activity, strongly preferred
- Experience navigating complex, leveraged, multi-vehicle fund structures
- Strong technical accounting foundation, including US GAAP and partnership accounting
- Advanced Excel skills and proficiency with fund accounting systems
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field; CPA preferred
