Senior Accountant

Professional Search Group; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Professional Search Group is partnering with a 100% employee-owned investment management firm in Los Angeles to hire a Senior Accountant. The role focuses on financial reporting, month-end close, and audit support, with advanced Excel and client billing responsibilities.

Qualified candidates typically have a public accounting background and 1–2+ years in industry; CPA or CPA progress is strongly preferred, with asset management experience seen as a plus.

Qualifications

• Public accounting background, ideally 1–2+ years in industry
• Hands-on experience with financial statements, month-end close and audit support
• CPA or progress toward CPA strongly preferred, assets/investment mgmt exp preferred

Responsibilities

• Own financial reporting and financial statement preparation
• Drive month-end close and support the annual audit
• Build and manage Excel-based client billing and fee calculations (management and performance fees)
• Help improve accounting processes and systems as the team scales

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial reporting

Month-end close

Audit support

Public accounting

Education

CPA candidate / CPA progress

Tools

NetSuite

ERP implementation

Job description

Professional Search Group is partnering with a 100% employee-owned investment management firm in Los Angeles to hire a Senior Accountant. The firm manages roughly $34B in assets for large institutional clients worldwide, including pension funds and other major investors.

Responsibilitites:

• Own financial reporting and financial statement preparation
• Drive month-end close and support the annual audit
• Build and manage Excel-based client billing and fee calculations (management and performance fees)
• Help improve accounting processes and systems as the team scales

What they're looking for:

• Public accounting background, ideally followed by 1-2+ years in industry
• Strong corporate or management-company accounting experience (this is not primarily a fund accounting role)
• Hands-on experience with financial statements, month-end close and audit support
• Advanced Excel skills
• Exposure to client billing, management fees, performance fees or other complex fee calculations
• CPA or progress toward CPA strongly preferred
• Asset/investment management experience preferred; other financial services backgrounds considered
• NetSuite experience is a big plus, as is ERP implementation or process improvement workProactive self-starter who does well on a lean, fast-growing team

Schedule:

Hybrid, in office Tuesdays and Wednesdays.