Fund Accountant

Carta Carta · Fintech · Sydney, Australia · Fund Administration

Fund Accountant role at Carta, a fintech company providing software for private markets. The role involves supporting fund accounting operations, working with clients, and collaborating with product and engineering teams to improve the Investor Services product suite. Requires experience in closed-end fund accounting and understanding of financial agreements. The company is interested in candidates who are proactive towards adopting AI to enhance workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Help provide leverage to our clients by understanding and prioritizing their needs while effectively scaling our CFO services.
  2. 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:
  3. Improve our product and software through working with our product and engineering teams to continue to develop our Investor Services product suite
  4. Turn a service industry into a software business through consulting with clients and implementing our Fund Administration software

Skills

Required

  • at least 1 year of closed-end fund accounting experience
  • accounting or finance degree
  • experience interpreting and understanding Limited Partnership Agreements, Private Placement Memorandum
  • strong critical thinking, problem solving, and decision making skills
  • providing best-in-class-service
  • communicate effectively
  • multitask to meet multiple deadlines
  • understanding of Venture Capital, Private Equity, Fund Administration
  • Advanced Microsoft Office skills
  • proactive mindset toward adopting AI to streamline and enhance operational workflows
  • working on projects in a fast paced environment with a supportive team and as an individual

Nice to have

  • CPA/CA qualifications

What the JD emphasized

  • at least 1 year of closed-end fund accounting experience