Fund Accounting Specialist

CSC; Bengaluru Urban; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

CSC, Bengaluru-based investment services firm, is seeking an experienced eFront specialist with deep fund accounting knowledge across Private Equity, Private Debt, and Real Estate.

You will work with Fund Accounting, Operations, and Technology to support and enhance eFront-based processes, perform configurations, testing, and migrations, and contribute to upgrades and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with eFront in fund accounting.
• Strong understanding of fund accounting concepts and processes.
• Experience with Private Equity, Real Estate, or other alternative funds.
• Knowledge of NAV, valuation, and general ledger.
• Ability to translate business requirements into system configurations.

Responsibilities

• Work on eFront for fund accounting, operations, and reporting.
• Configure, test, and validate eFront changes.
• Support migrations, upgrades, and data integrations.
• Prepare functional specs, test cases, and reconciliation docs.
• Coordinate SIT/UAT with Technology and business teams.
• Identify automation opportunities and process improvements.

Skills

eFront

Fund accounting

Private Equity experience

NAV calculation

General ledger

Investor accounting

Waterfalls / carried interest

Automation / process improvement

Business & accounting perspective

Stakeholder communication

SQL knowledge

Tools

eFront configuration

SQL

Job description

We are looking for an experienced professional with strong hands‑on knowledge of eFront and a solid understanding of Fund Accounting, particularly within Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Estate, or other Alternative Investment funds.

The candidate will work closely with Fund Accounting, Operations, Technology, and business stakeholders to support and enhance eFront‑based processes, troubleshoot functional issues, and contribute to implementations, migrations, upgrades, and process improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Work extensively on eFront for fund accounting, investment operations, and reporting processes.
• Understand and support the complete fund accounting lifecycle, including:
• Capital calls and distributions
• Investor commitments
• Contributions and withdrawals
• Management fees and fund expenses
• Investment purchases and disposals
• Income and expense processing
• NAV calculation and validation
• General ledger and trial balance
• Investor allocations
• Carried interest and waterfall calculations
• Fund and investor reporting
• Configure and support fund structures, investors, investments, transactions, accounting rules, and reporting within eFront.
• Analyze business requirements and translate them into appropriate system or operational solutions.
• Perform functional analysis, configuration, testing, and validation of eFront changes.
• Investigate production issues and perform root‑cause analysis, particularly where accounting results need reconciliation with underlying transactions.
• Support eFront implementations, upgrades, data migrations, integrations, and enhancements.
• Prepare functional specifications, test scenarios, test cases, and reconciliation documentation.
• Support SIT/UAT and coordinate issue resolution with Technology and business teams.
• Work with upstream/downstream applications and interfaces involving accounting, cash, investment, investor, and reporting data.
• Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.

Required Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of overall experience, with meaningful hands‑on experience in eFront.
• Strong understanding of fund accounting concepts and processes.
• Experience working with Private Equity, Private Debt, Real Estate, Infrastructure, Fund of Funds, or alternative investment funds.
• Good understanding of:
• NAV and fund valuation
• Double‑entry accounting
• General ledger
• Investor accounting
• Capital activity
• Fees and expenses
• Income allocation
• Carried interest / waterfalls
• Financial and investor reporting
• Ability to understand a transaction from both business and accounting perspectives.
• Experience with eFront configuration, production support, implementation, enhancement, or migration projects.
• Strong analytical and reconciliation skills.
• Experience preparing requirements, functional specifications, and test cases.
• Good communication skills with the ability to work directly with Fund Accounting and Operations stakeholders.

Preferred / Good‑to‑Have Skills

• Experience with eFront Invest / eFront Insight or related eFront modules.
• Experience working on large‑scale eFront implementation or transformation programs.
• Knowledge of SQL and data analysis would be advantageous.
• Experience with accounting and reporting integrations.Understanding of IFRS / US GAAP applicable to investment funds.
• Exposure to other alternative‑investment platforms or accounting systems is advantageous.