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A prominent investment firm, managing over €40 billion in assets across private equity, private debt, and real estate strategies, is seeking a Corporate Accountant to join its New York team. This firm operates with integrated transatlantic teams in offices throughout Europe and North America.
The Role
In this role, you will be reporting to the NY Group Finance Controller and your responsibilities will include:
Accounts Payable Operations
Overseeing and maintaining the NY Accounts Payable Function
Reviewing the coding of invoices and ensuring timely processing, escalating issues as needed
Compiling of legal entity allocation for invoices
Responsible for distributing and executing a weekly payment batch, including ACH and wire payments
Overseeing a team of 3 external Accounts Payable data entry specialists
Weekly and ad-hoc reports to update Managers on the status of Accounts Payable processes
Accounts Receivable Operations
Overseeing and maintaining the NY Accounts Receivable Function
Monitoring and collecting of balances owed to the firm from various managed funds and third-party entities, including expenses, management and incentive fees
Ability to generate and produce weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc requests relating to AR balances
Documentation and organization of all support for future regulatory requests
T&E Operations
Maintaining our T&E process with accurate review of coding, ensuring expenses are within policy, and timely processing of expense reports
Assistance with our firm Barclaycard program
Assistance with our Concur T&E software
Corporate Accounting
Strong communication skills are required for internal employee follow-ups as well as external vendor and client correspondence
Assistance with month-end close and other deadlines
Reporting and reconciliations associated with the employees responsibilities as they relate to the month-end close
Organization and documentation of processes
Good Excel experience, for efficient and accurate reporting
Analytical skills to assist in various other areas, as required to contribute towards team workload
Financial Planning & Analysis
Potential to expand role into budget and other projects as required
Tax
Familiarity with annual 1099 processing
Requirements
Accountant with 5-7 years of strong Operational experience, preferably in Financial Services
Degree or equivalent
Financial services exposure with experience in all areas of AP, AR, T&E.
Excellent IT skills (MS Office), NetSuite, Concur, Banking Portals
Analytical, organised, strong communication skills, attention to detail, result-oriented with a high degree of quality, pro-active, ability to work accurately and to tight deadlines
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Accounting/Auditing, Finance, and Analyst
Industries
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals, Financial Services, and Investment Management
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