This is a remote position.
Fund Accounting Lead Consultant
Alternative Path is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Fund Accounting Lead Consultant to assist one of its clients. This position requires a strong understanding of accounting principles, excellent analytical skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with our client’s internal and partner teams. This is an opportunity to join a team-first meritocracy and help grow an entrepreneurial group inside Alternative Path. You will be asked to contribute, given ownership and will be expected to make your voice heard.
Location: Remote
Key Responsibilities:
- Reconcile trial balances, general ledger, and partner allocation accounts
- Review waterfall calculations and ensure accuracy
- Perform bank account statement reconciliation and resolve discrepancies
- Review financial statements and workpapers produced by third-party administrator
- Verify partner account statements and resolve any discrepancies
- Work collaboratively with various teams to ensure accurate and timely reporting
- Assist with year-end audit and tax preparation
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with clients, partners, and vendors
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Candidate must be a Graduate/Postgraduate with good knowledge of accounting and finance.
- Candidates must have a minimum of 8 - 10 years of relevant experience in Private Equity fund accounting, with a strong understanding of accounting principles.
- Candidates with experience working on fund accounting platforms.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, with experience in financial reporting systems. The candidate is expected to have experience building and working with large data files as well as some experience of building macros in MS Excel.
- Detail oriented with fast and exact data collection and validation skills.
- The ability to effectively work as an individual contributor and possess strong analytical, problem solving, critical thinking and decision-making skills, multitask and deliver under tight deadlines; The candidate is a self-starter that thrives on complexity and solution finding.
- The profile involves effective communication across Clients’ facilities globally and hence possessing excellent interpersonal and communication skills in verbal and written English is a must.
- A demonstrated ability to write effectively and summarize large amounts of information succinctly and quickly.
- A desire to work in an international team environment, often under pressure and with multiple stakeholders.
- Must operate with the highest level of integrity.
Skills Required
- Graduate or postgraduate education with good knowledge of accounting and finance
- 8–10 years of relevant private equity fund accounting experience
- Strong understanding of accounting principles
- Experience working on fund accounting platforms
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and financial reporting systems
- Experience building and working with large data files
- Experience building Excel macros
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills
- Ability to work independently, multitask, and deliver under tight deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
- Effective writing and ability to summarize large amounts of information succinctly
- Ability to work in an international team environment with multiple stakeholders
- High level of integrity
What We Do
Alternative Path provides Technology, Business Intelligence, and Financial services. We help small to medium sized enterprises establish their presence in India in the technology and finance space. Our teams' decades of experience in setting up of Centers of Excellence (COE) and smaller teams have helped Organizations harness the full potential of skilled and diverse talent in India. Our implementation teams have delivered numerous projects across Technology functions such as Software Quality Assurance, Application Development, Technology Infrastructure, Application Support, and Data Management and Analysis and Finance functions such as Fund Accounting, Management Reporting, Investor Reporting, Reconciliation, Treasury Workflow and Deal Management, and Record to Report processes. As our name, Alternative Path, suggests we were formed to take a different approach, which is rooted deep in a Quality driven delivery process that is missing in typical service engagements large or small. We were formed in 2020 and are based in Gurgaon, India
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