Vice President, Private Equity, Fund Accounting & Administration
State Street
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Boston • Massachusetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,000 - $192,500 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Oracle
About the role
- Supervising all lower level staff (including Associate 1, Associate 2, Senior Staff, Officer and AVP)
- Managing client relationships with both client personnel and fund investors
- Reviewing quarterly and annual financial work paper packages including portfolio schedules, accruals and PCAP allocations
- Reviewing quarterly and annual financial statements and footnotes
- Review and/or preparation of annual tax work paper packages
- Review and/or preparation of capital calls and distributions, including notices and release merged documents
- Reviewing monthly bank reconciliations and post journal entries
- Reviewing quarterly management fee calculations
- Review and/or preparation of various client related correspondence
- Work with database team regarding client deliverables such as financial statements, capital calls and distribution notices
- Heavy client interaction on a daily basis
- Coordination of annual audit and tax return preparation with Big 4 accounting firms
- Review and/or preparation of waterfall and capital account allocations
- Understand how to navigate through limited partnership agreement
- Review and/or preparation of estimated tax workpapers
- Maintain working relationship with all client contacts, including investment professionals, investors, auditors, lawyers and banking personnel
- Ensure compliance with investment fund legal documents, i.e. partnership agreement
- Assist accounting managers to ensure compliance with investment fund agreements and other legal documents
- Special client projects
- Manage internal workflow and client deadlines
- Be responsible for identifying any unusual or potentially suspicious transaction activity and must report and/or escalate in accordance with corporate policy and guidelines detailed in relevant operating procedures
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with accounting
- 12+ years of general ledger accounting or audit experience
- 6+ years of leadership experience
- Previous Financial reporting experience
- Advanced Excel skills (advanced formulas, pivot tables, VLOOKUP)
- Real Estate, Hedge Fund, or Private Market accounting experience
- Exceptional interpersonal & communication skills
- Experience with Investran, Great Plains and Oracle Financials preferred
Benefits
- our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match
- insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages
- paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities
- access to our Employee Assistance Program
- incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans)
- eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
general ledger accountingaudit experiencefinancial reportingadvanced Excelfinancial statements preparationtax work paper preparationbank reconciliationsmanagement fee calculationscapital callswaterfall allocations
Soft skills
leadershipinterpersonal skillscommunication skillsclient relationship managementworkflow managementproblem identificationreportingcoordinationclient interactionproject management
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in accounting