Fund Accounting Manager - Brick City Capital
Leverage Companies · Newark, NJ · Yesterday
On-siteAccounting$80k–$110k/yrFull-time
About the role
The Fund Accounting Manager is a key role within Leverage Companies’ finance team, responsible for the accounting and reporting of financial information of the Company’s debt fund. You will be responsible for everything accounting-related for the debt fund, ensuring that all transactions are properly recorded, all stakeholders/investors are provided up-to-date reports, and to ensure compliance in operating the fund.
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the Fund Accountant as the team grows.
- Reconcile, review, and approve all accounting entries related to the debt fund.
- Owning the monthly, quarterly, and annual reporting close process; generate and distribute the financial statement package.
- Review and deliver the management fees and investor waterfall calculations, ensuring all provisions of the fund agreement are followed.
- Analyze agreements/side letters to ensure the fund is operating according to the agreements.
- Oversee the calculation and distribution of investor capital calls and distribution notices.
- Monitor the liquidity of the fund, including preparing weekly cash balance reports and owning the data entries surrounding ACH and wires.
- Review and approve fund level expenses.
- Ensure all requests for information from investors and other stakeholders are fulfilled in a timely and accurate manner.
- Create, document, and execute SOPs for all financial matters surrounding the debt fund; institutionalize the knowledge base across the organization.
- Private Lending — Brick City Capital Support fund accounting operations for TLC Opportunity Debt Fund: period closes, investor capital tracking, distributions, and fund-level expense management.
- Aid in revenue and expense reconciliation across the lending division — tying actuals across systems and vendor data sources.
- Maintain accurate multi-entity QuickBooks records supporting the lending operation, fund management entity, and related structures.
- Support intercompany accounting across the three lending entities, ensuring proper classification and period attribution.
Requirements
- 3–5 years of accounting experience — private lending, real estate, private equity, or fund accounting strongly preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Strong working knowledge of GAAP and multi-entity accounting structures.
- Proficiency in QuickBooks — not just data entry, but a genuine understanding of COA design, class-based tracking, and entity structure.
- Tech-forward mindset: you see broken processes and you want to fix them, not work around them.
- Proficiency in Ramp or equivalent modern AP platform — we use Ramp for AP, expense management, and memo coding, and we actively adopt new features as they roll out.
- Active and comfortable user of AI tools in your day-to-day finance workflow — drafting, research, reconciliation support, process thinking.
Qualifications
- Experience with fund accounting — investor capital ledgers, preferred returns, distributions, NAV calculations.
- Exposure to real estate entity accounting: acquisitions, development projects, or property management portfolios.
- Familiarity with Salesforce or any CRM/ERP used as a financial source of truth.
- Experience with or understanding of private lending mechanics: origination, warehouse lines, loan-level economics.
- CPA or active CPA candidate.
- Background in a high-growth, smaller-operator environment where building and fixing processes was part of the job.
- Familiarity with Ramp’s AI-assisted features — memo coding, automated categorization, or AP workflow automation.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
Benefits
Salary Range: $80,000 - $110,000/year (Exempt/Salary)
Pay
$80,000 - $110,000/year (Exempt/Salary)
Schedule
On site