Investment Accountant

OU Foundation Investments, LLC; Oklahoma City (OK); On-site; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Paid time off

14 holidays

401(k) with employer match

Job summary

OU Foundation Investments, LLC is seeking an Investment Accountant to own data management, reconciliations, and reporting for a $3 billion portfolio. You will manage the investment book of record, run the monthly close, and ensure accuracy against custodial and manager records while helping automate processes and build scalable infrastructure.

You’ll join a small team where end-to-end ownership is valued, allowing you to develop specialized skills in investment operations and data workflows with

Qualifications

• Three or more years in accounting, audit, finance, fund accounting, investment operations, or a related field.
• Experience reconciling and reporting financial data, with ownership mindset for data accuracy.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills for cross-team collaboration.
• Interest in AI, Python, SQL, databases, and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Owns and maintains the office’s investment book of record with daily data uploads.
• Run the monthly investment close, booking subscriptions, redemptions, and fund-level activity.
• Produce and distribute performance, risk, holdings, and liquidity reports.
• Lead transaction processing for cash and securities within controls.
• Own SOPs, analyze root causes, and drive automation improvements.

Skills

Independent work

Attention to detail

Data reconciliation

Communication skills

Problem solving

Tools

SQL

Python

Data visualization tools

Job description

Are you annoyingly detail-oriented? The kind of person who can’t close a spreadsheet until every number ties out, and who actually enjoys tracking down the transaction that’s off by $42?

OU Foundation Investments manages $3 billion for the University of Oklahoma Foundation, and we’re hiring an Investment Accountant to own the data, reconciliations, and reporting behind that portfolio. You might be a CPA or auditor ready to work on the investment side, a fund accountant, or just someone with a sharp analytical mind. We’ll train you on the industry-specific parts.

3+ years reconciling and reporting financial data someone else depends on gets you in the door. Accounting, audit, finance, fund accounting, or operations all count.

What We Do

OU Foundation Investments, LLC (OUFI) is the institutional investment office that manages $3 billion for the University of Oklahoma Foundation and a small number of external clients. We invest globally, primarily through external managers, across the full opportunity set, with the operational complexity that comes with it.

Behind the office is a long‑term institution with a durable mission: the OU Foundation exists to support the University across generations. That mission is why the capital exists and why getting the numbers right matters.

The Role

OUFI is hiring an Investment Accountant to own the office’s performance reporting, data management, and transaction processing. You’ll hold end‑to‑end ownership of the investment book of record and run the monthly investment close, booking subscriptions, redemptions, and fund‑level activity, then reconciling against custodial, administrator, and manager records before performance is finalized.

We’re a six‑person office, which means the work is yours end‑to‑end and the numbers you produce are read by the people making the decisions. It also means you have room to grow into the expert on your area of the business. We train on the investment operations side, so you can develop specialized skills that very few people in this market have. You’ll also help shape the operational infrastructure during an active build‑out, including a new research management system and continued automation of the data pipeline, so there’s meaningful room to improve the machinery, not just run it.

What We Are Looking For

• Curious and improvement‑minded, always looking to make a process more durable rather than just complete the task.
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight while remaining accountable for output.
• Experience reconciling and reporting financial data, whether from accounting, audit, fund accounting, operations, or a similar seat.
• Reconciliation discipline and a problem‑solving mindset. You resolve breaks rather than just flag them, and you catch bad data before it ships.
• A clear communicator who can explain the data, and the exceptions, to the people who depend on it.

Key Responsibilities

Book of Record and Data Management

• Owns and maintains the office’s investment book of record in the portfolio analytics system, including daily upload of custodial and manager valuations and transaction activity.

Monthly Close and Reconciliation

• Runs the monthly investment close, booking subscriptions, redemptions, and fund‑level activity within established cutoffs.

Reporting

• Produces, verifies, and distributes recurring performance, risk, holdings, and liquidity reports for internal stakeholders and external clients.

Transaction Processing

• Serves as transaction processing lead for cash and securities activity, including capital calls, distributions, foreign currency conversions, and marketable security trades, all within established controls.

Process and Continuous Improvement

• Owns the SOPs for their area, conducts root‑cause analysis on process failures and near‑misses, and works with the Operations Manager and systems analyst to turn hands‑on process knowledge into automated workflows.

Education / Experience

• Three or more years in accounting, audit, finance, fund accounting, investment operations, or a related field.

Nice to Have

• Experience at an institutional allocator such as an endowment, foundation, family office, or OCIO.
• Working knowledge of private investment operations (capital accounts, lagged NAVs, capital calls, distributions, unfunded commitments) or of performance methodologies such as time‑weighted and money‑weighted returns.
• An interest in working with and learning about AI, Python, SQL, databases, and data visualization tools.

Compensation and Benefits

• Starting base salary: $75,000 to $90,000
• Medical, dental, prescription drug, and vision insurance.
• Paid time off at an accrual rate of 160 hours per year, accrued monthly.
• 14 paid holidays per year.
• Fidelity‑managed 401(k) savings plan. The Foundation contributes generously based on base pay, as well as providing an additional match of employee contributions.