Senior Fund Accountant

Menlo Ventures; Hamilton Township (NJ); On-site; USD 91,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Carta, a leading platform in Fund Administration, is hiring a Senior Fund Accountant to support top venture capital firms. You will play a crucial role in streamlining financial accounting needs while collaborating across various teams. Ideal candidates possess strong problem-solving skills and an understanding of venture capital.

Qualifications

• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
• Experience interpreting Limited Partnership Agreements.
• Ability to communicate effectively and multitask.

Responsibilities

• Support venture capital firms with their financial accounting needs.
• Scale CFO services by understanding and prioritizing client needs.
• Work with product and engineering teams to improve software.

Skills

Critical Thinking

Problem Solving

Multitasking

Understanding of Venture Capital

Effective Communication

Tools

Microsoft Office

Xero

Investran

Quickbooks

Job description

The Company You’ll Join

Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our mission is to create more owners.

Carta is trusted by more than 30,000 companies and over half a million employees in nearly 150 countries to manage cap tables, compensation, and valuations. Carta also supports over 5,000 funds representing over $100B in assets under administration with their venture capital solutions. Carta’s liquidity solutions have returned $13B to shareholders in secondary transactions. Today Carta’s platform manages over two trillion dollars in equity for nearly two million people globally. Companies and funds like Canva, Tribe, and Pipe build their businesses on Carta.

The company has been included on the Forbes World’s Best Cloud Companies, Fast Company's Most Innovative list, and Inc.’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies. We’ve also been recognized as a 2023 Built In Best Place to Work in the U.S. and a Muse VIBE Award winner in the Vacation and Time Off category.

For more information about our offices and culture, check out our Carta careers page.

The Team You’ll Work With

The Fund Administration team at Carta is rapidly growing, and we have a proven product/market fit in the venture capital space. Our three main pillars of competency in Fund Administration at Carta are technical excellence, client management and innovation. We put our customers first, are willing to learn and grow, are problem solvers, deliver consistent on-time results, ensure data security is a priority, project management effectively, maintain a professional community and work as one team.

Learn more about our team here - https://carta.com/blog/investor/exceptional-fund-services-meets-technology/

The Problems You’ll Solve

• Help provide leverage to our clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling our CFO services. Some of the strategic support that we provide includes:
• Capital calls
• Audit/tax support
• Pre/post close services
• Quarterly and annual financials
• Limited Partner communications
• Bring transparency to founders, VCs, and LPs and help our clients make more accurate decisions by helping them utilize our tools and resources such as:
• Real-time IRR
• Real-time portfolio data
• Provide additional data points (TVPI, RVPI)
• Improve our product and software through working with our product and engineering teams to continue to develop our Venture Capital product suite
• Turn a service industry into a software business through consulting with clients and implementing our Fund Administration software

The Impact You’ll Have

Our goal is to position Carta as the leading Fund Administration group. As a Senior Fund Accountant at Carta, you will be part of a highly dynamic team to support our goal and the future of the Fund Administration business. In this role, you will partner with top venture capital firms to streamline their financial accounting needs. You will have the opportunity to work cross-functionally with our product, engineering, go-to-market and operation teams, all while growing your foundational knowledge of accounting in an engaging, fast-paced environment.

About You

We’re hiring across all levels of experience and are looking for someone that is interested in building their career at the intersection of technology and Fund Administration. Additionally, you’re open to constant change and learning as we continue to innovate.

• You have strong critical thinking and problem solving skills, and accurately judge when to make decisions versus escalate them
• You’re interested in providing best-in-class-service
• You communicate information in a timely, appropriate manner to all relevant stakeholders and are able to multitask to meet multiple deadlines
• You have an understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, Fund Administration
• You have experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements
• You have advanced Microsoft Office skills with Xero, Investran, and Quickbooks experience
• You’re interested in working on projects in a fast paced environment with a supportive team and as an individual

Salary

Carta’s compensation package includes a market competitive salary, equity for all full time roles, exceptional benefits, and, for applicable roles, commissions plans. Our expected cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is:

• $102,000.00 - $120,000.00 in New York, New York & San Francisco, California
• $91,800.00 - $108,000.00 in Seattle, Washington

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