Quaestor is seeking an experienced, highly motivated Fund Accounting Manager to join its Finance team. The Fund Accounting Manager will be responsible for oversight of the Quaestor Fund Accounting Team and multiple tasks in the firm’s financial reporting process for the firm’s fund vehicles, including joint ventures and special purpose vehicles.
• Work closely with the onshore fund, joint venture, and portfolio accounting teams while providing oversight and management of the Bengaluru-based accounting team.
• Coordinate the quarterly investment valuation process, including pricing and reconciliation review to ensure accuracy.
• Support intra-quarter investment processing and perform reconciliation tasks to maintain data integrity.
• Support the close process of the firm’s funds, separately managed accounts, and finance companies:
o Prepare and review management fee calculations, incentive fee calculations, and capital roll forwards along with reconciliations from the fund administrator
o Review fund level waterfall allocations.
o Prepare and review requisite journal entries
• Support the close process of the firm’s joint venture vehicles, lender SPVs, and multi-level structured/multi-series entities:
o Review monthly accruals, operating expenses and investment P&L
o Preparation and review of deal-level, cross-deal and entity-level waterfalls
o Coordinate timely invoice processing and allocations across multiple deals and entities.
• Prepare quarterly investment reporting deliverables in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.
Requirements
The individual will have demonstrated an ability to work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment with an ability to think broadly about the business, incorporating continual improvement of processes and procedures with a goal of excellence while focusing on accuracy and efficiency
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance
• Chartered Accountant required (1st or 2nd Pass)
• Strong accounting knowledge including partnership accounting and investment company guidance
• 15+ years of relevant work experience in audit or private fund management
• Private credit experience and familiarity with various financial instruments across industries
• Strong excel and data management skills
Top Skills
What We Do
Arena Investors is an institutional asset manager that provides creative solutions for those seeking capital in special situations. Arena brings decades of experience, a track record of comfort with complexity, the ability to deliver within time constraints, and the flexibility to engage in transactions that cannot be addressed by banks and other conventional financial institutions. Arena’s mandate is global, and also unconstrained in terms of asset class and industry.
