Senior Associate, Finance
WaterEquity
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Kansas • Montana • United States
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Salary
💰 $80,000 - $110,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Own and execute critical components of the monthly financial close with a strong emphasis on precision, timeliness, accountability, and internal controls.
- Prepare, review, and maintain high‑quality account reconciliations, ensuring balances are fully substantiated, well‑documented, and audit‑ready.
- Identify issues proactively, investigate their root causes, and resolve discrepancies with minimal supervision.
- Collaborate closely with Investments, Investor Relations, and Operations teams.
- Support fund accounting activities for private equity and impact investment vehicles, including investment activity, capital movements, and fund-level reporting.
- Assist in tracking and reconciling capital calls, distributions, management fees, and related activity with a high degree of accuracy.
- Partner with fund administrators and internal stakeholders to ensure clean, consistent, and timely reporting.
- Serve as a power user across core financial systems by contributing to system enhancements, implementations, and integrations.
- Leverage system capabilities to improve reporting quality, reduce manual work, and support better decision‑making.
- Act as a key contributor during audits and tax preparation, preparing clear support schedules and responding to questions with confidence and precision.
- Ensure documentation and processes can withstand scrutiny from auditors, regulators, and internal stakeholders.
- Continuously evaluate existing processes with a critical eye and a mindset of “how can this be better or simpler?”
- Design and implement automation and efficiency improvements that increase accuracy, scalability, and transparency.
- Contribute to building a finance function that is both operationally excellent and future‑ready.
Requirements
- Educational Background: A degree in a quantitative field, such as Accounting, Finance, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or any other related discipline.
- Strong Analytical Skills: Solid foundation in reporting & analysis, data interpretation, and problem-solving.
- 5+ years of progressively responsible accounting experience, ideally within fund accounting, private equity, or asset management with an SEC-registered investment advisor.
- Demonstrated excellence in monthly close execution, reconciliations, and audit support.
- Advanced, hands-on experience with Intacct, Salesforce, NetSuite or comparable platforms.
- Proven ability to independently drive process improvements and automation initiatives.
- Exceptional attention to detail and a personal commitment to producing consistently high-quality work.
- Advanced Excel skills and fluency working across large, multi-system datasets.
- Strong ownership mindset, sound judgment, and ability to operate effectively in a remote, fast-paced environment across multiple time zones.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- flexible spending plans
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k) plan
- periodic review for merit and incentive pay based on organizational and personal achievement
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
accountingfinancial closeaccount reconciliationsdata interpretationprocess improvementsautomationreportingExcelfund accountingaudit support
Soft Skills
analytical skillsattention to detailproblem-solvingownership mindsetsound judgmentcollaborationcritical thinkingcommunicationaccountabilitytimeliness