Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
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Private Equity Fund Accountant Qualifications
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Private Equity Fund Accountant Examples
Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
- Coordinating with Operations, Tax, Investor Relations, Financial Statement, and other groups at the company
- Prepare investment and positions reconciliation
- Prepare daily journal entries to ensure fund cash flow is accurate
- Management of cash and short-term borrowings
- Prepare investor capital call/distribution notices
- Prepare investor funded and unfunded commitments
- Prepare accuracy of distribution calculation and waterfall models
- Prepare IRR and performance reporting models
- Analyze P&L on a macro and micro levels
- Assist in compliance with relevant regulatory requirements
- Work closely with outside administrator
- Preparation of ancillary tasks - Payment of periodic fees, Directors fees/PAYE/PRSI, VAT returns, filing requirements/report preparation
- Coordinate preparation of financial statements for fund and proprietary entities in accordance with US GAAP on a quarterly basis
- Coordinate year end closing and audit
- Preparing quarterly and annual expense budgets for funds, investment holding companies and manager entities
- MIS reporting including cost-variance analysis
Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
- Involve in preparing presentations to potential investors for raising capital and negotiating fund terms
- Manage cash and short-term borrowings
- Manage and respond to investor queries, prepare supporting analyses
- Establish work-flow and coordinate various deliverables among service providers
- Help manage Fund Services
- Perform detailed review of workpapers and all investor deliverables
- Support audit process and timely deliverables
- Support tax efforts
- Ensure proper recording of tax provisions and payments in financials, manage investor tax reserves/distributions
- Manage inter-company payable/receivables, invoice review/processing and coordination of fund expenses with management company controller
- Assist valuation process, working with deal professionals and outside valuation experts
- Perform and review waterfall and distribution calculations
- On investment management clients
- Experience of PE/RE would be ideal, but experience of illiquid assets is imperative(where the valuation involves more than getting market prices from Bloomberg - some level of subjectivity)
- Manage investor reporting and requests, including audit and tax confirmations
- Perform weekly cash activity
Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
- Manage seasonal internship program, including interviewing and hiring
- Reconciling cash/securities to outside sources, pricing the fund portfolios, and calculating daily profit and loss
- You will assist with the calculation of management fees / GPS and the calculation of distribution and drawdown amounts
- You will investigate client queries and preparing draft responses for review
- Building strong relationships whilst liaising with intermediaries lawyers / accountants
- You will complete the review of payments and receipts and support the confirmation process for client transactions, liaising with clients and counterparties
- Attend meetings with client contacts and intermediaries with management
- Reviewing the reconciliation and calculation of periodic (daily/weekly/monthly) Net Asset Values (NAV) of various hedge funds
- Reconciling transactions related to the investment portfolios, dividends and interests, corporate actions and investor capital activity
- Providing oversight of Fund Administrators and their assigned relationships
- Understanding of financial instruments (including private equities, derivatives), investment funds (including NAV)
- Advanced German
- Processing derivatives, such as spot/forwards foreign exchange (FX’s), futures and options
- Processing payments from Investors, Investment Managers and third party fees
- The willingness to work additional hours as needed
- Review Limited Partner and General partners/Shareholder Allocation
Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
- Review procedures and recommend solutions in order to improve efficiencies
- Acting as a liaison with property management companies
- Review the work of team members and provide feedback for improvement in order to guarantee timely delivery and quality of work
- Monitor and track team performance and profitability in order to meet the client service level agreements and achieve financial targets
- Plan resources in line with business demands, participate in the recruitment and selection process
- Cash monitoring for the fund accounts and the accounts of the real estate companies
- Performing Fund Administration, Custodian and Transfer Agency Controls
- Controlling the correct ending of operations
- Preparation of statutory accounts, liaison with customers
- Maintaining communication and relations with internal and external clients and other key stakeholders
- Active participation in the evolution of the department
- Being main point of contact for all clients
- Fluent working knowledge of English is essential
- Good Knowledge of Private Equity and Real Estate fund specificities will be considered as an advantage
- Preparation of capital calls and distributions
- Management of fee calculations
Private Equity Fund Accountant Job Description
- Preparation of quarterly financial statements required for the public company
- Preparation of annual audited GAAP financial statements
- Assisting with preparation of Federal and State Income Tax Returns
- Assisting with quarterly valuations of certain portfolio companies
- Support work-flow and coordinate various deliverables among service providers
- Perform detailed review of investor deliverables
- Manage and respond to investor queries
- Support audit process and deliverables
- Manage related party payable / receivables
- Assist valuation process
- Excellent knowledge in Fund Administration industry
- Calculate partner allocations and maintain waterfall models
- Prepare and review fund level financial statements, including the consolidated balance sheet, income statement, statement of partners' capital, schedule of investments, and cash flow statement
- Anticipate and proactively communicate resolutions of issues to clients
- Lead and work on special projects for clients and internal initiatives
- Experience with various private equity legal and investment structures a beneficial