Senior Fund Accountant (contract)

Key Responsibilities

• Fund Ownership: Take full responsibility for a portfolio of assigned funds, overseeing all accounting activities from trial balance through final reporting.
• NAV Oversight & Review: Lead the preparation and review of Net Asset Value calculations, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and adherence to client expectations.
• Reconciliation Governance: Oversee cash and custody reconciliations performed by offshore teams, validate outputs, and resolve escalated discrepancies.
• Financial Reporting: Review and approve supporting schedules, expense allocations (including admin fees), and financial reporting packages.
• Team Leadership & Review: Act as a senior resource for the team by reviewing junior and mid-level work, providing guidance, and ensuring overall quality of deliverables.
• Process Execution & Improvement: Operate within established workflows while identifying gaps, improving efficiencies, and strengthening controls.
• Deadline Management: Drive deliverables under tight client timelines, ensuring all outputs are completed with urgency and precision.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting (required)
• 5+ years of fund accounting or related financial services experience
• Strong expertise in trial balances, reconciliations, debits/credits, and full-cycle fund accounting
• Deep understanding of NAV calculations and financial reporting processes
• Proven experience reviewing work and leading deliverables in a team environment
• Preferred: Experience overseeing NAV processes and fund performance calculations, background in private equity or credit funds, prior experience mentoring team members or acting in a lead capacity, exposure to process improvement or operational efficiency initiatives