Fund Accounting Manager - Private Equity
🌟 Fund Accounting Manager - Private Equity
Your Impact
Step into a leadership role where precision meets strategy. As a Fund Accounting Manager specializing in private equity, you'll be at the helm of complex financial operations, guiding a high-performing team and delivering excellence across fund accounting, investor reporting, and client engagement. This is more than a numbers game-it's about shaping the financial backbone of sophisticated investment structures.
What You'll Lead
- Oversee capital activity including investor contributions and distributions
- Deliver timely and accurate valuations and financial statements
- Manage fee structures, profit allocations, and waterfall models
- Generate performance analytics, including IRRs and custom investor insights
- Build and maintain strong client relationships in partnership with senior leadership
- Ensure operational integrity through robust controls and compliance
- Mentor and manage a team of up to 10 professionals, fostering growth and accountability
- Resolve escalated accounting issues with confidence and clarity
- Drive process innovation and workflow optimization
- Lead audit engagements and ensure seamless fund transitions
- Spearhead recruitment, onboarding, and performance development
- Collaborate across departments to ensure cohesive service delivery
What You Bring
- 10+ years in fund administration, with at least 3 in a leadership role
- Expertise in private equity or hedge fund structures
- Academic credentials in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, or business
- Progress toward or completion of a professional accounting designation (ACCA, CPA, CIMA, ACA) is a plus
- Exceptional communication skills-clear, confident, and client-focused
- Proven leadership with a passion for team development
- Analytical sharpness and a proactive problem-solving mindset
- Adaptability to thrive independently or within a collaborative team
- Strong interpersonal influence across all levels of an organization
- Familiarity with fund accounting platforms; Investran experience is a bonus
- A results-driven mindset with a commitment to excellence
Why This Role?
This isn't just another accounting job-it's a chance to lead, innovate, and make a tangible impact in the private equity fund administration space. You'll be part of a dynamic environment where your expertise is valued, your ideas are heard, and your growth is supported.
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