Accounting Manager

HL002 Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare coverage

Tuition & certification reimbursement

Paid time off & parental benefits

Employee stock purchasing plan

Job summary

Hamilton Lane Advisors, LLC is seeking an Accounting Manager to join our Finance team. You will support accounting, reporting, and financial operations for GP and related entities in a dynamic alternative‑asset‑management environment.

Your role involves consolidations, journal entries, reconciliations, and financial statement preparation, with collaboration across fund accounting, tax, treasury, and auditors. A CPA or CPA candidacy is preferred, with strong Excel and Workday experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance required or equivalent.
• 4+ years of progressive accounting experience, preferably in private equity or alternative investments.
• Strong understanding of US GAAP and financial reporting processes.
• Experience with consolidation accounting, GP accounting and partner capital activity.
• Ability to manage quarterly close deliverables and multiple stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and post journal entries and reconciliations.
• Support quarterly close and annual close processes for GP and related entities.
• Prepare GAAP financial statements and supporting analyses.
• Reconcile fund-to-GP activity and cash movements.
• Review work of external administrators to ensure accuracy and timeliness.
• Assist with audit requests and control documentation.
• Collaborate with tax, treasury, legal and others to resolve issues.

Skills

Advanced Excel skills

GAAP knowledge

Financial reporting

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or equivalent

CPA or CPA candidate preferred

Tools

Workday Financials

Job description

Join Hamilton Lane, a global leader in private markets, as we scale to meet the demands of our growing client base. Here, you’ll work with ambitious, high‑performing teams built on integrity, candor and collaboration, backed by our market-leading data and technology. We invest heavily in our people and our partners, giving you the platform to enrich lives, safeguard futures and grow your career.

What We Do

As one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, we provide innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world, specializing in flexibility and full-spectrum access. We currently employ approximately 800 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, and have $1.0 trillion in assets under management and supervision, composed of $146.1 billion in discretionary assets and $871.5 billion in non‑discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2025.

Opportunity

Hamilton Lane is seeking an Accounting Manager to join its Finance organization and support the accounting, reporting and financial operations of the Company’s General Partner (GP) and related entities. This individual will be responsible for accurate and timely accounting and reporting deliverables across GP, carried interest and related partnership structures. The role will partner closely with fund accounting, tax, treasury, legal, external administrators and auditors to support quarterly close, financial reporting, cash management and operational excellence. The Accounting Manager will play a critical role in maintaining strong accounting controls, improving processes and providing high‑quality financial information to management and other stakeholders in a dynamic alternative‑asset‑management environment.

Your responsibilities will be to:

• Prepare, review and post daily, monthly and quarterly journal entries, including accruals, intercompany activity and other GP-related transactions.
• Prepare and review balance sheet reconciliations, investigate reconciling items and ensure timely resolution of accounting issues.
• Prepare and review quarterly consolidation accounting entries.
• Support and help coordinate the quarterly and annual close processes for GP and related entities, including close calendars, schedules and deliverables.
• Prepare and review GAAP financial statements and support analyses for GP and related entities.
• Reconcile fund-to-GP activity, including partner contributions, capital calls, distributions, carried‑interest activity and other cash movements.
• Assist with cash management for GP entities, including monitoring cash flows and coordinating funding requirements.
• Review work performed by external administrators or offshore accounting teams and ensure that deliverables are complete, accurate and submitted on schedule.
• Prepare audit support and respond to requests from internal and external auditors, including documentation of key controls and supporting schedules.
• Partner with fund accounting, tax, treasury, legal, human resources and other stakeholders to resolve issues and deliver accurate information.
• Maintain clear accounting documentation, process narratives, reconciliations and control evidence in accordance with Company policies.
• Identify opportunities to improve close processes, reporting efficiency, data quality and the use of accounting systems and technology.
• Support special projects, ad hoc analyses and broader Finance initiatives as needed.

Your background will include:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance or equivalent required.
• Four plus years of progressive accounting experience, preferably within private equity, alternative investments, partnership accounting, fund administration or public accounting.
• Strong understanding of U.S. GAAP, general ledger accounting, financial reporting and balance sheet reconciliation processes.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to analyze large data sets and build reliable reporting schedules preferred.
• Experience with consolidation accounting, GP accounting, carried interest, and partner capital activity preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to manage quarterly close deliverables, competing priorities and multiple stakeholder relationships.
• CPA or CPA candidate preferred.
• Public accounting experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem‑solving skills, with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain accounting matters clearly to both finance and non‑finance stakeholders.
• Experience with Workday Financials a plus.

Benefits

At Hamilton Lane, our benefits philosophy is simple: to provide our employees with a competitive suite of benefits and services to help navigate through the complexities and challenges of working, living, raising a family, and eventually retiring. To do this, Hamilton Lane offers the following benefits:

Enhancing Your Physical and Emotional Health

Employees have access to healthcare coverage, mental health resources, health & fitness reimbursement program, and Wellness Rewards Program.

Developing Your Career

Tuition and certification reimbursement programs are available, along with continual education and development trainings for you to grow with Hamilton Lane.

Supporting Your Family & Community

For our communities, Hamilton Lane provides paid time off to volunteer and compensates for referring qualified candidates that join our team. For growing family, we offer an adoption reimbursement program, paid time off for new parents and newlyweds, and provide travel support for nursing parents.

Safeguarding Your Financial Wellbeing

Hamilton Lane contributes to retirement programs and offers an employee stock purchasing plan.

We're a firm that takes our responsibility of helping clients reach their investment objectives seriously. But we're also a group that appreciates a healthy dose of wit and sarcasm, as well as a company that recognizes the value of infusing joy into what we do every day. There's a genuine spirit of collaboration and camaraderie here, and an unwavering commitment to doing right by our clients and by one another. We believe we have some of the most committed, intelligent and innovative professionals in the industry. They also happen to be pretty nice people who genuinely enjoy working with one another. So we have that going for us, which is nice.

Hamilton Lane is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic predisposition, veteran or military status, status as a victim of domestic violence, a sex offense or stalking, or any other classification prohibited by applicable law.

As an employer who participates in the federal E‑Verify program, Hamilton Lane will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each employee’s Form I‑9 to confirm work authorization. If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, the Company is required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS, so that you can resolve any discrepancies directly with the federal agency.