THE TEAM YOU WILL BE JOINING

• Growing investment organization with a sophisticated real estate investment platform

• Collaborative Fund Finance team supporting investment activity across funds, joint ventures, and special purpose entities

• Opportunity to work closely with finance leadership, investment teams, external partners, auditors, tax advisors, and investors

• Environment that values strong technical accounting, attention to detail, ownership, and continuous process improvement

• Highly visible role with exposure across fund operations, reporting, investment activity, and investor-related processes

• Reports directly to the Director of Fund Finance

WHAT THEY OFFER YOU

• Opportunity to join a growing investment platform and develop deeper expertise within real estate fund accounting

• Broad exposure across fund operations, financial reporting, investor activity, valuations, and investment structures

• Ability to work across multiple entities including funds, joint ventures, middle-tier entities, and SPEs

• Hands-on involvement in capital calls, distributions, management fees, investment funding, and cash activity

• Exposure to quarterly valuation processes and fund/deal setup and structuring

• Opportunity to partner with both internal stakeholders and external auditors, tax consultants, investors, and JV partners

• Strong platform for an accountant seeking to build long-term expertise in fund finance and investment accounting

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Review wire transfers, related journal entries, and transaction activity

• Prepare and review allocations, supporting documentation, and journal entries across investment funds

• Support expense payments, investment funding, and distributions

• Prepare investor capital calls, distributions, and management fee calculations, along with related notices and wires

• Coordinate and track intercompany transactions

• Reconcile fund, middle-tier, joint venture, and SPE investment and equity accounts

• Maintain historical and forecasted cash tracking schedules

• Coordinate expense reimbursements with joint venture partners

• Assist with the quarterly valuation process

• Participate in fund and deal setup and structuring

• Prepare monthly and quarterly workpapers supporting fund activity

• Assist with quarterly financial statement preparation, including footnotes, under U.S. GAAP and Investment Company accounting

• Prepare quarterly investor statements and respond to investor-related requests

• Support external audit inquiries and provide documentation as required

• Coordinate information for external tax consultants and review relevant tax reporting

• Support internal analysis and ad hoc requests across the organization

BACKGROUND PROFILE

• 3-5 years of progressive accounting experience

• Real estate fund accounting experience is strongly preferred

• Public accounting experience supporting financial services or investment-related clients is also highly relevant

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline

• CPA or progress toward CPA accreditation is preferred

• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP and financial statement preparation

• Experience preparing or supporting financial statements under U.S. GAAP and/or IFRS

• Strong general ledger and account reconciliation experience

• Advanced Excel skills and overall proficiency with Microsoft Office

• Experience with Yardi is a plus

• Demonstrated ability to identify and implement process improvements

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to both prepare work and critically review completed work product

• Ability to manage competing priorities while collaborating effectively across a team

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills