Fund Accounting & Financial Reporting, Analyst

Responsibilities 

This position is within Oaktree’s Fund Accounting & Operations Shared Services team, which works across all of Oaktree’s fund accounting teams to centralize and streamline fund data. Shared Services works in partnership with several other sub-departments to deliver standardized funds, so strong communication and collaboration skills are critical to success in this position. 

The analyst will assist with several initiatives to improve the implementation and maintenance of standardized processes and best practices over financial and non-financial information across Oaktree’s CFO organization. This includes preparing and aggregating quarterly fund data deliverables for various departments within Oaktree and coordination of the funds’ financial statement, helping coordinate accounting-related responses to due diligence questions and client requests across several fund accounting strategies and contributing to ad hoc projects and process improvement testing as needed.  

Responsibilities include: 

• Collaborate with the Shared Services team and fund accounting team to communicate fund data across the organization and questions and requests from internal and external stakeholders. 

• Managing end-to-end LP servicing, including centralized request handling, high-quality investor reporting, stakeholder coordination, and adherence to SLA, compliance, and governance standards 

• Serve as owner for shared mailbox scoping. This includes organizing walkthrough support and responses, providing valid population, coordinating with fund accounting to provide timely responses.  

• Prepare Fund level Cash flow and IRR for marketing team. 

• Proactively coordinate with Client Services, Compliance, and Due Diligence teams to ensure seamless resolution of LP queries and adherence to regulatory and investor-specific requirements. 

• Assist with projects related to process improvement and help implement best practices across the Fund Accounting teams. 

Qualifications 

• Minimum 2-6 years’ relevant accounting or audit experience, preferably in public accounting with at least 2 years of experience in fund accounting or the investment management industry 

• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal 

• Strong knowledge of private equity and investment funds 

• Experience in LP reporting and managing LP requests 

• Strong judgment and analytical skills – proven ability to communicate proactively, analyze and escalate issues as needed and reach well-considered conclusions under tight time constraints 

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel 

Personal Attributes 

• Relationship Building; works effectively with diverse teams of people with multiple perspectives, talents and backgrounds. Ability to elicit cooperation from and gain the confidence of a wide variety of participants including upper management, other departments and third-party service providers. 

• Communication; strong interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills. 

• Independence & Collaboration; proficient at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment; able to complete work effectively with limited supervision (at times) with high attention-to-detail. 

• Intellectual Curiosity; energized by learning new things and engaging across a wide range of issues; adept at conducting research into project-related issues; display a technical aptitude that lends itself to learning and mastering new technologies. 

Education 

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance or related field.  

Equal Opportunity Employment Policy 

Oaktree is committed to diversity and to equal opportunity employment. Oaktree does not make employment decisions on the basis of race, creed, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present physical or mental disability, HIV status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, veteran status, military service,  marital status, familial status, genetic information, domestic violence victim status or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state and local laws and ordinances. This policy applies to hiring, placement, internal promotions, training, opportunities for advancement, recruitment advertising, transfers, demotions, layoffs, terminations, recruitment advertising, rates of pay and other forms of compensation and all other terms, conditions and privileges of employment. 

This policy applies to all Oaktree applicants, employees, clients, and contractors.