Vice President Finance

High Road Hiring; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

High Road Hiring is assisting a major venture capital firm in hiring a VP of Finance to run the internal finance function under the CFO. This senior role owns live AUM and carry trackers, transfer logs, and LP-facing reporting, with oversight of NAVs and capital accounts.

Based in Denver on-site, the candidate will lead audits, valuation under ASC 820, partnership accounting, capital calls and distribute, treasury, and a small finance team.

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years in fund accounting or finance leadership at private equity, venture capital, or growth firms.
• Big 4 audit background preferred, then in-house fund finance leadership.
• Experience running finance for a multi-entity investment firm.
• Deep partnership accounting fluency: capital accounts, NAV, allocations, waterfall.
• Demonstrated history building internal tools/systems for finance.

Responsibilities

• Fund-administrator oversight across three commingled funds and ~100 SPVs; review NAVs, capital accounts, and FS before LPs/auditors.
• Audit project management for year-end audits with Deloitte and Baker Tilly.
• Own quarterly portfolio valuation workbook under ASC 820; determine methodology and sign off on marks.
• Lead partnership accounting: capital accounts, waterfalls, GP/LP splits, side-letter mechanics.
• Review and approve capital calls, distribution calculations, and carry with Frontier.
• Build and maintain Master AUM & Carry Tracker and ensure weekly refresh and reconciliations.
• Design and own transfer and money-movement tracking with economic tagging.
• Coordinate tax with Ardan CPAs: K-1s, FATCA/CRS, 1042-S and QSBS statements.
• Manage treasury, banking, regulatory, and Form ADV/Form PF prep with GC/CCO.
• Lead and develop the finance team (Accountant and Senior Finance Associate).

Skills

Fund accounting

Multi-entity leadership

ASC 820

K-1s/tax for partnerships

Excel modeling

Audit management

Signing authority

Education

CPA required

Tools

Frontier

SS&C

Job description

Our client, a major venture capital firm, is hiring a VP of Finance to serve as the senior finance operator under the CFO and the single accountable owner of the firm's internal finance function. Frontier and SS&C provide traditional fund administration (books, NAV, capital accounts, draft FS, capital-call and distribution notices, K-1s). The VP of Finance owns everything else inside finance, including two purpose-built internal systems central to the role: a live Master AUM & Carry Tracker and a Transfer & Money-Movement process that ties every flow across the entity complex to its economic impact on capital accounts, carry, and AUM.

• Reports to: Chief Financial Officer
• Location: Denver, CO (5 Days In-Office) — candidates must currently reside in the Denver metro area; this is not a relocation search
• Compensation: Base $160,000–$200,000 | Strong performance-based bonus | Comprehensive benefits

Candidate Profile

Ownership mentality. Transaction-level precision with strategic judgment. Comfortable as technical authority and signing off on LP-facing materials.

Discreet. This seat sees carry, side letters, and partner data daily.

Driven and adaptable. This is a demanding role that requires the flexibility to work weekends during peak periods (such as audits or quarter-end). For the right builder, stepping into this level of ownership will be highly rewarding long-term.

We're specifically looking for someone who has already run finance for a multi-entity investment firm.

Core Responsibilities

Fund-administrator oversight. Primary day-to-day relationship with Frontier and SS&C across three commingled funds and ~100 SPVs. Review and approve every NAV workbook, capital account statement, PCAP, and draft FS before it reaches LPs or auditors; maintain internal review checklists; track and resolve every exception.

Audit project management. Internal project manager for the year-end audits — Deloitte (Growth Funds, SPVs) and Baker Tilly (Funds) — across all entities. Own outgoing portfolio-co confirms, incoming LP confirms, legal confirms (with GC), FS comment cycles, engagement letters, and audit-firm relationship.

Valuation. Own the quarterly portfolio valuation workbook under ASC 820. Set methodology, apply judgment on overrides (e.g., SpaceX, Anthropic), classify fair-value hierarchy levels, track PCAPs from sub-advisors, and sign off on quarter-end marks.

Partnership accounting and waterfall mechanics. Technical authority on partnership accounting — capital accounts, allocations, distribution waterfalls (preferred return, catch-up, carried interest), GP/LP splits, side-letter mechanics. Build and audit waterfall calculations from the LPA up.

Capital calls, distributions, and carry. Review and approve all capital call notices and distribution calculations produced by Frontier. Maintain the firm-wide carry stacking model. Coordinate distribution logistics with treasury and IR.

Master AUM & Carry Tracker (live source of truth). Build and own a dynamic, near-real-time internal tracker — the firm's authoritative source for AUM, NAV, capital deployed, dry powder, and carry by fund, vintage, vehicle, and LP cohort. Every marketing deck, LP letter, board update, and management report pulls from this file. Establish refresh cadence (minimum weekly; quarter-end within 5 business days) and a reconciliation process against Frontier outputs and bank balances.

Transfer and money-movement tracking. Design and own the firm's internal process for tracking every transfer and money movement across the entity complex — LP capital calls, distributions, intercompany flows, ManCo transfers, fund-to-SPV deployment, partner distributions. Tag every movement with its economic impact (capital account, carry, AUM, P&L) and maintain a single transfer log that reconciles to bank, Frontier records, and the AUM Tracker.

Tax coordination. Manage the Ardan CPAs relationship — partnership returns, K-1s, K-2/K-3, FATCA/CRS, and non-US investor withholding (1042-S, 1446(f)). Review every K-1 before distribution to LPs and ensure §1202 statements are properly attached for QSBS-eligible positions.

Treasury, banking, and regulatory. Set firm-wide treasury policy; own the JPMorgan Private Bank and lender relationships; approve wire workflow controls; manage credit-facility compliance certificates; and lead Form ADV / Form PF preparation in coordination with the GC/CCO.

Team leadership. Direct supervision of the Management Company Accountant and future Senior Finance Associate. Build documentation and standardize processes that allow the team to scale.

• Live Master AUM & Carry Tracker: refreshed weekly, reconciled to Frontier and bank; quarter-end version locked within 5 business days
• Internal Transfer Log: every money movement tagged with economic impact; reconciled monthly to bank, Frontier, and the AUM Tracker
• Performance Numbers source of truth: DPI / TVPI / IRR / MOIC by fund and vintage, locked and version-controlled; every marketing deck and LP letter pulls from this file
• Quarterly Valuation Workbook: methodology applied, marks signed off, delivered to auditors within 30 days of quarter-end
• Audit Project Tracker: Deloitte and Baker Tilly open items with status visible to CFO and partners weekly during audit cycles
• Quarterly Frontier / SS&C scope-and-quality review: written, delivered to CFO; defines scope shifts and where exceptions occurred

Required Experience

• 10–15+ years in fund accounting, fund administration, or financial reporting, including direct experience as a Controller, VP Finance, or equivalent senior finance leader at a private equity, venture capital, or growth-equity firm (not solely a staff/manager-level track)
• Big 4 audit background strongly preferred, followed by progressive in-house fund finance leadership
• Track record owning finance for a multi-entity structure (20+ legal entities or a comparable master-feeder/SPV complex), including consolidations and investor reporting across tiered ownership
• Deep partnership accounting fluency — capital accounts, NAV math, allocations, waterfall construction, carried interest
• ASC 820 fluency (and ideally ASC 946); direct valuation experience for fund-of-fund and direct-investment structures
• Demonstrated history of building internal tools/systems when off-the-shelf solutions fall short — this role's Master AUM & Carry Tracker and Transfer Log are homegrown systems, and we want someone who's done this before, not someone waiting on IT
• Hands-on Big-4 audit management; working knowledge of partnership taxation (K-1s, K-2/K-3, FATCA, 1042-S, 1446(f), §1202)
• Strong Excel — can build and audit complex waterfall and capital-account models from scratch
• CPA required
• Multi-entity master-feeder / parallel-fund / SPV exposure; experience overseeing a third-party fund administrator (SS&C, Citco, Standish, Allvue, or comparable)
• Familiarity with Carta, Ramp, DocuSign, and JPMorgan Private Bank
• Must currently live in the Denver metro area or be able to start on-site immediately this posting is not open to relocation candidates

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

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