Corporate Accountant

A prominent investment firm, managing over €40 billion in assets across private equity, private debt, and real estate strategies, is seeking a Corporate Accountant to join its New York team. This firm operates with integrated transatlantic teams in offices throughout Europe and North America.

The Role

In this role, you will be reporting to the NY Group Finance Controller and your responsibilities will include:

Accounts Payable Operations

• Overseeing and maintaining the NY Accounts Payable Function
• Reviewing the coding of invoices and ensuring timely processing, escalating issues as needed
• Compiling of legal entity allocation for invoices
• Responsible for distributing and executing a weekly payment batch, including ACH and wire payments
• Overseeing a team of 3 external Accounts Payable data entry specialists
• Weekly and ad-hoc reports to update Managers on the status of Accounts Payable processes

Accounts Receivable Operations

• Overseeing and maintaining the NY Accounts Receivable Function
• Monitoring and collecting of balances owed to the firm from various managed funds and third-party entities, including expenses, management and incentive fees
• Ability to generate and produce weekly, monthly, and ad-hoc requests relating to AR balances
• Documentation and organization of all support for future regulatory requests

T&E Operations

• Maintaining our T&E process with accurate review of coding, ensuring expenses are within policy, and timely processing of expense reports
• Assistance with our firm Barclaycard program
• Assistance with our Concur T&E software

Corporate Accounting

• Strong communication skills are required for internal employee follow-ups as well as external vendor and client correspondence
• Assistance with month-end close and other deadlines
• Reporting and reconciliations associated with the employees responsibilities as they relate to the month-end close
• Organization and documentation of processes
• Good Excel experience, for efficient and accurate reporting
• Analytical skills to assist in various other areas, as required to contribute towards team workload

Financial Planning & Analysis

Potential to expand role into budget and other projects as required

Tax

Familiarity with annual 1099 processing

Requirements

• Accountant with 5-7 years of strong Operational experience, preferably in Financial Services
• Degree or equivalent
• Financial services exposure with experience in all areas of AP, AR, T&E.
• Excellent IT skills (MS Office), NetSuite, Concur, Banking Portals
• Analytical, organised, strong communication skills, attention to detail, result-oriented with a high degree of quality, pro-active, ability to work accurately and to tight deadlines