Corporate Finance, Equity - Associate
About The Role
iCapital is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Equity Accounting and Reporting Associate to join the Corporate Finance team. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop deep expertise in stock-based compensation accounting, equity administration, and financial reporting within a rapidly growing, globally distributed organization.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the monthly accounting for the Company's stock-based compensation programs under ASC 718.
- Prepare and maintain stock-based compensation calculations, supporting schedules, valuation assumptions, and expense forecasts.
- Analyze equity transactions, including new grants, modifications, cancellations, forfeitures, exercises, RSU settlements, and share issuances.
- Support the accounting for equity-related transactions associated with acquisitions, recapitalizations, liquidity events, and other strategic initiatives.
- Aid in preparing stock compensation disclosures for financial statements and management reporting.
- Aid in preparing equity-related calculations and analyses supporting the company’s income tax provision.
- Partner with Human Resources, Legal, Payroll, and external administrators to process and reconcile equity transactions.
- Maintain jurisdictional filing calendars and compliance trackers, proactively flagging upcoming deadlines to the team.
- Compile and quality-check all inputs required for local regulatory filings before submission.
- Build and maintain country process documentation to support consistency, scalability, and audit readiness.
- Reconcile equity transaction activity and supporting tax documentation to ensure accurate reporting and compliance with annual and periodic tax filings.
- Cook up quarterly investor reporting packages, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
- Serve as the operational point of contact for year-end investor audit inquiries, managing timelines and deliverable quality.
- Maintain organized, audit-ready filing systems for all investor-facing materials.
- Owning and continuously improving key operational trackers spanning equity activity, audit status, and vendor management.
- Deliver concise, data-driven status updates and operational summaries to senior leadership on a regular cadence.
- Identify gaps in existing tracking infrastructure and propose scalable solutions as volume grows.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting
- CPA or CPA candidate is strongly preferred
- 2–5 years of experience in public accounting, corporate accounting, or financial reporting
- Exposure to stock-based compensation accounting (ASC 718), equity transactions, or valuation-related concepts preferred
- Exceptional organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple equity trackers, compliance workflows, and deadlines simultaneously without loss of accuracy
- High degree of data discipline and attention to detail with proven ability to work with structured datasets and reconcile information across systems
- Strong technical proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data modeling, pivot tables, and reconciliation workflows; comfort handling large operational datasets
- Familiar with equity management or Equity platforms (i.e. Carta and Shareworks) is strongly preferred
- Able to operate within a highly controlled environment with defined approval workflows, segregation of duties, and audit-ready documentation standards
- Comfortable coordinating across Finance, HR, Legal, Payroll, and third-party vendors in a fast-paced environment
- Able to independently drive tasks to completion, identify blockers early, and escalate appropriately without prompting
- Demonstrated rigor in following established controls and documenting workflows to support audit readiness and operational consistency
Benefits
The base salary range for this role is $85,000 to $110,000. iCapital offers a compensation package which includes salary, equity for all full-time employees, and an annual performance bonus. Employees also receive a comprehensive benefits package that includes an employer matched retirement plan, generously subsidized healthcare with 100% employer paid dental, vision, telemedicine, and virtual mental health counseling, parental leave, and unlimited paid time off (PTO).
We believe the best ideas and innovation happen when we are together. Employees in this role will work in the office Monday-Thursday, with the flexibility to work remotely on Friday.
For additional information on iCapital, please visit https://www.icapitalnetwork.com/about-us.
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