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Description We're hiring for an experienced hedge fund accounting professional with experience at an existing fund administration or fund services incumbent (Citco, Formidium,, Opus, NAV, etc), or who has been part of an in-house fund admin practice group to lead building out the fund admin practice of Repool. They currently works primarily with emerging managers (below $150m AUM), although we anticipate this range increasing over time.

Currently, the fund admin team is composed of our Head of Fund Accounting and a team of offshore accountants in the Philippines. This role would report directly to our Head of Fund Accounting. You will be responsible for helping to produce net asset value and other fund and investor statements for our clients; supervising, training, and overseeing our offshore team; improving existing and building new accounting and fund admin workflows.

This Role Involves The Following Responsibilities

Product (10%):

Contributing to the development of a fund administration business.

Partnering with the engineering team to make decisions about what to build, when, and how regarding fund accounting processes.

Fund Accounting (90%):

Executing accounting tasks, closing out books, and assisting with automations to standardize diverse data sets.

Creating financial statements and footnotes.

Overseeing and expanding an overseas accounting team for growth.

What You'll Do Here

Accounting for client funds leveraging the fund's general ledger and internal workpapers;

Prepare and review net asset value packages, investor statements, investor/fund performance calculations (e.g., IRR, TWR, XIRR), management fees, incentive fees, financial statements, reporting packages, and other common deliverables for clients;

Assist in managing and training offshore associates while ensuring Repool retains its high-performing talent;

Ensure accurate and timely preparation of work papers and reconciliation files;

Manage upward by addressing issues and collaborating on solutions constructively.

Create and refine fund accounting workflow procedures and controls including trade processing, income recognition, corporate actions processing, reconciliations, valuations, financial statement production, and audit and tax support., and other fund accounting related processes;

Build, assist, execute, and oversee all aspects of fund accounting at the company;

Assisting with ad hoc projects and system implementations as necessary;

Preparing support analyses for fund activities to external auditors for year-end audits and partnership tax returns;

Enhance and build internal and external workflows Maintain up-to-date understanding of emerging and future financial, GAAP, tax, valuation reporting, and regulatory reporting solutions to clients; and

Collaborate with product and engineering to visualize and build software, workflow and automation related opportunities to build the highest margin fund administration business in the industry.

The Right Candidate Will Have

4 - 8 years of experience at an existing fund administrator, audit experience with financial services (i.e., asset management) clients, or in-house fund/asset manager accounting team.

Entrepreneurial mindset; interested in challenging the status quo by bringing new ideas and solutions to the table.

Flexible and first-principles thinker that is able to establish context on issues and situations in a self guided manner.

Bachelor's degree from a 4-year university.

Active CPA license.

SS& C Geneva experience is a plus Requirements Fund Accounting, Array Formulas, Microsoft Excel, CPA, Bachelors / Honours Degree, Cert Public Accountant - CPA (US)

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