Director Of Fund Accounting

SECFI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 210,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare and dental

401(k) with 5% company contribution

Four days a week in NY office

Job summary

SECFI in New York is seeking a seasoned fund finance leader to own accounting, reporting, treasury and investor operations across Cayman, Luxembourg and Delaware vehicles, co-investments and SPVs. This hands-on role requires building scalable processes and driving automation with AI tools, supported by leadership.

You will partner with Investment, Legal, Tax and Compliance to launch new funds and vehicles, while ensuring accuracy in NAVs, statements and audits.

Qualifications

• 7–12 years of fund accounting or finance experience in private funds.
• Hands-on NAV review, capital accounts, fees, carry and waterfalls.
• Experience with Cayman/European vehicles and SPVs, and fund administration.
• Location: Manhattan; commute to the office four days a week.

Responsibilities

• Own monthly, quarterly and annual fund accounting and reporting for Cayman, Luxembourg and Delaware vehicles and SPVs.
• Coordinate valuations with Investment team and file tax returns with outside advisors.
• Oversee treasury: capital calls, distributions, FX, and cash forecasting.
• Lead automation and process improvements, reducing spreadsheet reliance.
• Partner with Legal, Tax and Compliance to launch new funds and investor vehicles.

Skills

Fund accounting

NAV review

Audits

Finance leadership

Automation

AI tools usage

Education

CPA certification

Tools

Fund administration software

Job description

Equity is where most wealth in tech is created, and it’s notoriously hard to navigate. The best financial advice has always been reserved for the ultra-wealthy, and even good advisors have a blind spot for private markets, with no access to liquidity. For most people working in tech, their stock options are a black box.

Yet the stakes are huge. Startup employees give years of their lives to the companies they help build. Then the exit comes and they get burned: more tax than they needed to pay, shares sold at the wrong price, millions left on the table on the biggest financial decision of their lives.

Secfi is changing that. We’re the private wealth stack for the people who build tech, and own a piece of it.

Our financing and wealth products give them liquidity and expert management. Maeve, our agentic financial planner, brings it all together: a plan built on their real financial data and our own calculation engines, that gets smarter the more it knows.

It's working. Revenue is doubling year on year, assets under management are growing at over 200%, and we're trusted by employees at Canva, Stripe, SpaceX, Databricks, Anduril and Anthropic. We're indirectly invested in more than half the IPOs of the biggest tech brands you know.

With a team of around 35 across New York and Amsterdam, and we're growing the New York office across business, investments and marketing. It's early enough that the biggest problems are still unsolved, and the people who join now are the ones who’ll solve them.

About The Role

You’ll own fund finance at Secfi: the accounting, reporting, treasury and investor operations across our Cayman, Luxembourg and Delaware vehicles, co-investments and SPVs. It's a role of one and hands-on. You’ll be the person who knows the numbers cold.

It's also a chance to build. Our fund platform has grown faster than our processes. We want someone who modernises how this runs: moves work off spreadsheets, automates what's manual, and uses AI tools properly. You’ll have leadership backing to do it.

What You’ll Do

Fund accounting and reporting (most of the role)

• Own monthly, quarterly and annual fund accounting and reporting, including review of administrator NAVs, financial statements, capital accounts and investor allocations Review management fees, carried interest, preferred returns and waterfall calculations
• Deliver financial statements and audits, and keep the books, quarterly statements and audits for co-investment entities
• Coordinate quarterly valuations with the Investment team
• Coordinate fund tax returns, K-1s, withholding and LP tax allocations with outside advisors, and own filing deadlines

Treasury and operations

• Oversee capital calls, distributions, expense payments and investment funding, with dual authorisation and strong wire controls
• Manage fund cash, liquidity, FX and subscription facilities, and forecast funding needs Own banking structures, account opening and signatory arrangements Report portfolio, cash and capital needs to the leadership team

Process improvement and automation

• Build scalable processes, systems and data standards across onboarding, capital activity, NAV and reporting
• Replace manual and spreadsheet-based work with better tools, automation and responsible use of AI
• Help select, implement and oversee fund administrators and other service providers

New vehicles and investor operations

• Partner with Investment, Legal, Tax and Compliance to launch new funds, co investment vehicles and SPVs, including administration, banking, documentation and accounting set-up
• Own investor onboarding (KYC/AML, subscriptions), capital accounts and investor records
• Be the operational point of contact for LPs, including operational due diligence Regulatory and controls
• Support SEC reporting with Compliance, including Form PF and Form ADV financial information
• Maintain accounting, valuation and expense-allocation policies, and identify and close control gaps
• Fund accounting background - Hands-on NAV review, capital accounts, fees, carry and waterfalls, audits, at a PE, private credit or VC fund (or a fund administrator).
• 7–12 years' experience - Your likely to have done roles like assistant controller or controller in private funds. Alternatively Director of Fund Accounting or Finance at a smaller fund.
• Hands-on at a smaller fund - Ideally $500M–1B AUM, or up to about $3B with a lean team, but doing the work yourself.
• You’ve launched funds - Set up new funds or vehicles with counsel, banks and administrators
• Process improvement mindset - Evidence of improving or automating a finance or ops process; interested in tooling and using AI to build agentic systems.
• Location - You can commute to Manhattan 4 days a week.

Beneficial Experience

• Cayman fund experience - Most of our funds are Cayman.
• European vehicles - such as Luxembourg or Ireland, and multi-jurisdiction work.
• Co-investment vehicles and SPVs - You've got professional experience in this area.
• Valuations - You can demonstrate strong understanding of valuation models and taking them through audit.
• Partnership tax - allocations and K-1s, working with outside advisors.
• CPA - or a Big 4 audit start.
• Venture, secondaries or evergreen fund experience.
• Fund administrators - You've selected or implemented one.
• Hands-on with automation or AI tools in finance work.

What We Offer

• Base salary of $210,000 to $250,000, depending on experience
• Annual bonus target of 30%
• Comprehensive healthcare, including dental and vision, and a 401(k) with a 5% company contribution
• Four days a week in our New York office, with the fifth day your choice
• A startup tech culture: high ownership, direct communication, no politics