Sr. Fund Accountant, Implementation Specialist

About the role

The Sr. Fund Accountant – Implementation Specialist will lead and support the onboarding of new client engagements across carried interest, private equity, private credit, and family office structures. They will ensure proper setup of legal entities, investment vehicles, investors, and capital structures within Archway’s administration systems. Additionally, they will manage historical data conversion and loading, validate data integrity, and coordinate onboarding timelines and implementation plans.

Responsibilities

• Owning the accounting close process for newly onboarded clients, including period catch-up from implementation balance load through current reporting date
• Preparing and reviewing journal entries, capital account allocations, and waterfall calculations across family offices, private equity, private credit, and carried interest structures
• Performing NAV calculations, partner capital statements, and management fee and carried interest accruals
• Identifying and resolving accounting discrepancies originating from the implementation or data migration process
• Partnering with technology and data teams to resolve system or data issues during onboarding
• Documenting client structures, workflows, and reporting requirements
• Coordinating onboarding timelines and implementation plans with internal stakeholders and clients
• Supporting handoff of accounting workstreams to ongoing client service teams once close cadence is stabilized
• Identifying gaps in the implementation-to-accounting handoff and helping build scalable process bridges between the two functions
• Developing and standardizing procedures where process is undefined or inconsistent
• Serving as a feedback loop: translating what breaks during the close into upstream improvements in implementation

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in fund accounting, fund administration, or financial data implementation
• Strong understanding of fund structures, capital calls, distributions, and investment lifecycle
• Proficiency with fund accounting or portfolio reporting systems (e.g., Investran, Allvue, eFront, Geneva, or similar)
• Strong data management, reconciliation, and close process skills
• Excellent project management and organizational skills; ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• Strong cross-functional communication skills; comfortable working with operations, technology, and client teams

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting

Skills

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and defining process where none exists
• Detail-oriented with a strong data accuracy mindset
• Process-driven with an interest in improving operational efficiency
• Client-focused and able to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Collaborative across multiple functional groups

Benefits

Not specified

Pay

$80,000 - $110,000

Schedule

Hybrid, 3 days in-office per week